Staff Software Engineer, PostgreSQL

🔥 19 minutes ago

🇺🇸 United States – Remote

💵 $170k - $190k / year

⏰ Full Time

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Beacon Biosignals

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11 - 50 employees

🏥 Healthcare

💼 Consulting

📦 Logistics

Healthcare • Consulting • Logistics

Beacon Biosignals is a company focused on powering precision medicine for the brain. Their EEG neurobiomarker platform is engineered to accelerate clinical trials and enable new treatments for patients with neurological and psychiatric diseases. The platform captures a rich array of the brain's activity in real time and utilizes machine learning to analyze EEG data for treatment efficacy, dose selection, and population stratification. Beacon Biosignals partners with biopharma companies, academic medical centers, and neurotechnology developers to improve the diagnosis and treatment of neurological and psychiatric diseases.

📋 Description

• Lead design and architecture for complex projects and systems within the Datastore • Translate product, scientific, clinical, and engineering stakeholder requirements into integrations, services, and scalable data-platform solutions • Debug and profile ambiguous problems across system boundaries and improve structure, test coverage, and tooling • Implement features with high standards for data integrity, design soundness, and maintainability • Draft RFCs and lead complex feature discovery and technical design phases • Plan individual and team work, balancing speed, generalizability, technical debt, and stakeholder needs • Teach and mentor engineers, provide actionable feedback, and potentially act as a technical lead • Improve Datastore operational robustness and usability through documentation, tools, and dashboards • Own event pipelines, GraphQL APIs, core data models, third-party integrations, and/or PostgreSQL performance, operations, and access controls • Collaborate across platform, application, scientific, clinical, product, and support teams

🎯 Requirements

• 7+ years of backend development experience, including at least 3 years focused on data platforms and backend infrastructure for data-centric applications • Highly proficient in at least one of: data modeling, distributed systems, API design, or database engineering • Strong proficiency in SQL and production experience with PostgreSQL as an application database • Experience writing and tuning complex SQL queries and reasoning about schema design, indexes, and query plans • Hands-on experience with data streaming and event processing using Kafka or an equivalent such as RabbitMQ, Pulsar, Amazon Kinesis, or another cloud-based equivalent • Proficiency in Julia or Python; Julia experience is a strong plus but not required • Experience deploying and operating services in containerized environments • Familiarity with Kubernetes and Infrastructure as Code tools such as Terraform and/or Helm • Track record of mentoring engineers and improving team practices, tooling, test coverage, or documentation • Excellent written and verbal communication skills • Self-directed approach and experience thriving in hybrid or fully remote teams • Experience with, or interest in, LLM-assisted or agentic coding tools in production • For the Datastore Systems role: GraphQL and TypeScript/JavaScript (Node.js); end-to-end event-driven pipeline design; complex systems design • For the PostgreSQL & Data Modeling role: deep PostgreSQL knowledge including query planner, index selection, EXPLAIN (ANALYZE), data modeling, schema evolution under load, zero-downtime migrations, lock avoidance, backfill and verification, and production PostgreSQL operations

🏖️ Benefits

• Equity • Paid time off (PTO) • Robust asynchronous work practices • Remote work experience • In-person office hubs in Boston, New York City, and Paris