Senior Test Tooling Engineer - TigerData

At Tiger Data (formerly Timescale), we empower developers and businesses with the fastest PostgreSQL platform designed for transactional, analytical, and agentic workloads. As a globally distributed, remote-first team committed to direct communication, accountability, and collaborative excellence, we're shaping the future of data infrastructure, built for speed, flexibility, and simplicity.

Tiger Data is seeking a passionate Senior Test Tooling Engineer to elevate our release infrastructure and processes across our core products: TimescaleDB, Toolkit, Data Tiering, and Tiger Lake. In this high-impact role, you'll drive the transformation of our CI/CD pipelines and release workflows, automating operations and building robust testing and benchmarking systems to ensure world-class product quality at scale.

What You Will Be Responsible For In This Role

• Drive and evolve CI/CD infrastructure for TimescaleDB, Toolkit, Data Tiering, and Tiger Lake, utilizing GitHub Actions.
• Own the end-to-end release process, focusing on automation so that releases become seamless and effortless for the team.
• Lead the packaging process and collaborate with the platform team to ensure a smooth, efficient workflow.
• Design and implement stress testing infrastructure from the ground up. Execute stress tests, analyze results, and feed regression signals back to engineering partners.
• Build and maintain comprehensive testing infrastructure to validate TimescaleDB's performance and compatibility in cloud environments.
• Take ownership of benchmarking frameworks (including tsbench), elevating their capabilities with advanced features (e.g., explain plans), and ensuring reliable, sophisticated measurement.

You Could Be a Great Fit if You Have

• Proven experience as a Senior Release Engineer, QA Lead, or similar role with end-to-end release process ownership.
• Deep expertise in modern CI/CD practices and tools, especially GitHub Actions.
• Strong Python skills for automation, tooling, and infrastructure.
• Hands-on experience running PostgreSQL in production environments.

Nice to Have

• Prior experience with TimescaleDB.
• Basic knowledge of Kubernetes.

What Success Looks Like

• Comprehensive and reliable test coverage enables the team to deploy with confidence.
• Regressions are detected early through robust stress testing and benchmarking.
• Clear, actionable metrics and signals support continuous improvement.
• Established, close collaboration with the platform team to deliver high quality releases efficiently and smoothly.