Location
Central London (Remote role, applicants must be located in the EU or Eastern US timezones)

Hours
Flexible hours with minimum bureaucracy, allowing you the freedom to get your best work done in the way you prefer.

Salary
Competitive salary commensurate with experience.

About the Role
Laravel is seeking its first dedicated Senior Infrastructure Engineer, PostgreSQL to join our all-remote Laravel Cloud infrastructure team. Our mission is to improve the developer experience worldwide by building not only beautiful software products but also a solid infrastructure foundation. We focus on end-to-end product quality with our users front and center, and databases are a critical part of that foundation — the place where user data lives and must be reliable.

In this role, you will own the PostgreSQL offering on our Laravel Cloud platform end-to-end: operating the service, automating workflows, ensuring reliability, and defining best practices. This is a build-it-from-the-ground-up position where you will elevate our PostgreSQL platform from "it works" to "it's excellent". You will use Kubernetes, AWS, and Go to achieve this.

As part of the Infrastructure team, you will collaborate with a world-class group of engineers working on our most ambitious project yet — the Laravel Cloud platform, a fully managed infrastructure optimized for Laravel and PHP developers. You will research and implement best solutions, engage in pair programming and collaborative problem solving, and contribute to thorough documentation in our all-remote environment.

Key Responsibilities:
- Deploy, manage, and optimize PostgreSQL clusters on Kubernetes, ensuring high availability, performance, backups, and disaster recovery.
- Develop and maintain Kubernetes operators and controllers in Go to automate database and platform operations.
- Design, build, and operate highly available cloud infrastructure on AWS across multiple accounts and regions.
- Build and maintain Infrastructure as Code using Terraform and automate manual operational workflows.
- Improve reliability, scalability, and security through monitoring, observability, and proactive capacity planning.
- Troubleshoot and resolve complex production issues across PostgreSQL, Kubernetes, and cloud infrastructure.
- Collaborate with engineering teams to enhance developer experience, CI/CD pipelines, and platform automation.
- Define and promote best practices for database operations and mentor engineers as PostgreSQL expertise grows within the team.

What Success Looks Like:
- First 30 days: Understand the PostgreSQL platform, infrastructure, workloads, and operational pain points.
- First 60 days: Take ownership of PostgreSQL operations and begin improving reliability, monitoring, and automation.
- First 90 days: Deliver measurable improvements in performance, scalability, and operational maturity, setting the long-term platform direction.
- After 12 months: Be the owner and expert for PostgreSQL at Laravel, reducing operational complexity, improving database practices, and enabling engineering teams to confidently build and scale on PostgreSQL.

Experience
- 7+ years in software, platform, or infrastructure engineering, preferably with large scale production systems.
- Deep expertise with PostgreSQL in production: performance tuning, replication, backups and recovery, high availability, major version upgrades, and troubleshooting under pressure.
- Mastery of AWS (or GCP), designing, deploying, and operating production cloud infrastructure.
- Experience working in large AWS environments with multi-account setups across multiple regions.
- Strong experience with Kubernetes (K8s) and container orchestration, including production cluster operations, stateful workloads, storage, networking, RBAC, cluster upgrades, and troubleshooting.
- Proficient in Go, with experience building and maintaining Kubernetes operators and controllers using Kubebuilder, controller-runtime, and Operator SDK.
- Strong Linux systems administration and networking fundamentals including network protocols, load balancing, caching, and DNS management.
- Experienced with Infrastructure as Code (Terraform preferred), enforcing sanity checks and policies for scalable operations.
- Familiarity with CI/CD and GitOps workflows using tools such as Argo CD or Flux.
- Experienced and opinionated about logging, monitoring, and alerting tooling and processes (Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry).
- Preferably experienced running PostgreSQL on Kubernetes with operators such as CloudNativePG or Crunchy Postgres for Kubernetes.

About You
You are pragmatic, a team player, and able to balance best practices with custom solutions when needed. You have empathy for users and a passion for building excellent products. You enjoy collaborative problem solving, pair programming, and thorough documentation. You thrive in a flexible, remote work environment and are motivated to take ownership and drive improvements in infrastructure reliability and developer experience.

Qualifications
No formal qualifications are explicitly required, but your extensive hands-on experience and demonstrated expertise in PostgreSQL, cloud infrastructure, Kubernetes, and Go development will be key to your success in this role.