Staff Software Engineer

Job description

Lakebase is a new category of database: fully managed, serverless Postgres for the AI-powered lakehouse. Reliability isn’t a feature here—it is the product.

Platform Reliability: Hunt outages before they happen. Own scalability decisions for 10x growth. Work across the entire Lakebase org to make our service bulletproof. Our goal? Run Lakebase on Lakebase.

Operational Tools: Build the systems that engineers and support teams reach for at 2am—observability, customer management, compliance monitoring, maintenance APIs, and the safety guardrails that let teams ship fast without breaking things. Go, Java/Scala, TypeScript, Kubernetes, and more.

Both are cross-organizational roles with high autonomy, real ownership, and plenty of ambiguity. If you thrive on complexity and want impact you can measure in uptime, this might be for you.

We're looking for experienced engineers with distributed systems backgrounds who've built and operated critical systems (including being on-call for them). Generalists who can navigate competing priorities and balance short-term delivery with long-term stability will do well here.

London Senior:

Staff:

Curious about Lakebase? Check out:

• Matei Zaharia's VLDB keynote:

  https://www.linkedin.com/posts/mateizaharia_lakebase-vldb-keynote-activity-7371195786040156160--br8/

• Lakebase Holiday Update

Interested? Let's talk!

Extra information

Status

Open

Education Level

Secondary School

Location

Greater London

Type of Contract

Full-time jobs

Published at

04-02-2026

Full UK/EU driving license preferred

No

Car Preferred

No

Must be eligible to work in the EU

No

Cover Letter Required

No

Languages

English