Senior PostgreSQL Platform Engineer

4+ years of experience in database engineering, platform engineering, or a related systems discipline.

We are hiring from senior to staff level — whether you are a strong Postgres engineer ready to take on platform ownership, or you have already been leading database platform strategy across large engineering organisations, we'd love to hear from you.

Deep, hands-on PostgreSQL expertise: strong opinions on replication, sharding, backup strategies, upgrades, and security.

Hands-on experience with Postgres automation and lifecycle tooling is required.

Solid backend engineering background — Go is preferred but any strong language is welcome; familiarity with Kotlin/JVM is a plus as you'll work directly with product teams who rely on it.

A track record of turning database best practices into opinionated standards that engineering teams actually adopt.

Our database platform is foundational to how Trade Republic works — every trade, savings plan, and card payment touches it.

Today, much of our database operations are handled manually or through basic automation.

You will change that: building the platform layer that makes PostgreSQL operations self-service, automated, and reliable by default.

Run PostgreSQL at scale:

Own the reliability and uptime of our PostgreSQL clusters — design for high availability, engineer for resilience, and ensure near-zero downtime across maintenance, upgrades, and failure scenarios.

Build the database platform:

Platform Engineering is the backbone of Trade Republic's engineering velocity. Our mission is to build scalable platforms for a Europe-scale bank — serving internal engineers, and building in-house control planes for managing the bank's infrastructure. We’re a ~50-person Platform team focused on one thing: enabling product engineers to move fast and operate autonomously by default.

We build self-service platforms, golden paths, and opinionated tooling so that over 400 engineers can ship with confidence. From Kubernetes fleet management and CI/CD to an internal Developer Hub built on Backstage, our work underpins every trade, savings plan, and card payment that flows through the platform.