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title: 'Senior Test Tooling Engineer at Tiger Data'
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# Senior Test Tooling Engineer at Tiger Data

- **Company:** Tiger Data
- **Location:** Remote
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** remote
- **Posted:** 2026-07-24
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-11
- **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/tigerdata/e6223d80-1f6e-44ae-a9c8-160cfd368049

## Job description

At Tiger Data, formerly Timescale, we empower developers and businesses with the fastest PostgreSQL platform designed for transactional, analytical, and agentic workloads. Trusted globally by thousands of organizations, Tiger accelerates real-time insights, drives intelligent applications, and powers critical infrastructure at scale. 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. Senior Test Tooling Engineer 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. Location: Remote

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.

Ready to help define the quality bar for some of the industry’s most impactful data products? Apply now and join Tiger Data’s growing team! Our Commitment:

- We respond to every applicant.
- We review applications fairly and objectively, and shortlist based on relevant skills and experience.
- We ensure clear and timely communication throughout your candidate journey.
- We maintain a rigorous interview process with a high bar, designed to give you the opportunity to meet various team members you'll collaborate with across our organization.

[About Tiger Data🐯](https://www.tigerdata.com/about) Tiger Data, formerly Timescale, sets the standard as the fastest PostgreSQL platform for modern workloads. Trusted by more than 2,000 customers across 25+ countries and powering over 3 million active databases, we enable developers and organizations to build real-time, intelligent applications at scale. Backed by $180 million from top-tier investors, Tiger Data is building the new standard for data infrastructure, built on PostgreSQL, designed for the future. 👉 👉 Want to get a feel for how we work and what we value? Check out our blog post:[What It Takes to Thrive at Tiger Data](https://www.timescale.com/blog/what-it-takes-to-thrive-at-timescale)

We embrace diversity, curiosity, and collaboration. Whether debating the perfect chicken nugget crunch 🍗, sharing workout routines 💪, or discussing your favorite plants 🌱 and pets 🐾, you'll find your community here.

Our Tech Stack: We don't require previous experience with our tech stack, but enthusiasm for learning is key. Our technologies include PostgreSQL, Tiger Cloud, AWS, Go, Docker, Kubernetes, Python, and innovative features like Hypertables, Hypercore, vector search, and real-time analytics.

Learn more athttps://www.tigerdata.com[www.tigerdata.com](http://www.tigerdata.com) or follow us on Twitterhttps://twitter.com/TigerData[@TigerDatabase](https://x.com/TigerDatabase)

What We Offer: (Please note that benefits may vary based on country.)

- Flexible PTO and comprehensive family leave
- Fridays off in August 😎
- Fully remote opportunities globally
- Stock options for long-term growth
- Monthly WiFi stipend
- Professional development and educational resources 📚
- Premium insurance options for you and your family (US-based employees)

Ready to join the future of PostgreSQL? We can’t wait to meet you. 🚀🐯

## About Tiger Data

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Tiger Data builds a cloud-native PostgreSQL platform optimized for time-series and real-time analytics, serving developers and enterprises across industries from IoT to AI.
- **Entity Type**: Private (total funding raised: $180 million; latest round: $110 million)
- **Headquarters**: Not publicly available
- **Founded**: Not publicly available (likely mid-2010s based on team context)
- **Founders**: Ajay Kulkarni (CEO) and Mike Freedman (CTO)

## Core Business
- Primary industry: Data infrastructure / Database-as-a-Service (DBaaS)
- Target customers: B2B, developers, enterprises (IoT, Web3, AI, industrial automation)
- Mission/purpose: “We build data infrastructure that accelerates the future” – giving developers powerful, fast, and reliable PostgreSQL for the hardest data workloads.

## Products & Services
- **[Tiger Data Platform]**: A managed PostgreSQL service with built-in time-series capabilities. Key features include automatic partitioning, row-columnar storage, tiered storage (hot on SSD, cold on object storage), lakehouse integration (Kafka/S3 ingest to Iceberg), 200+ time-series SQL functions, hybrid search (keywords, vectors, filters, ranking), and Postgres-native access via SQL, APIs, CLI, and UI. It is SOC 2 Type II and GDPR compliant.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation**: Not disclosed
- **Key Metric**: Total funding raised – $180 million (as of the latest announcement)
- **Notable Investors**: Not listed on the website; the company mentions “partners” but does not name specific investors in the provided materials.
- **Growth Signals**: Over 2,000 companies and 3 million databases hosted; recent $110 million funding round (“Year of the Tiger”); expanding into lakehouse integrations and enterprise security; remote-first, engineering-led culture.

## Competitive Advantages
- Built on PostgreSQL – a proven, extensible, and widely adopted database foundation.
- Specialized for time-series and real-time analytics with row-columnar storage and tiering that balances performance and cost.
- Hybrid retrieval combining keywords, vectors, and ranking for modern search use cases.
- Native Postgres compatibility (SQL, APIs, existing ecosystem tools) lowers migration friction.
- Enterprise-grade security and compliance (SOC 2 Type II, GDPR, encryption at rest/in transit).

## Strategic Focus
- Deepening lakehouse and streaming integrations (Kafka, S3, Iceberg) to unify real-time and historical data.
- Continuing to optimize PostgreSQL for AI, IoT, and Web3 workloads.
- Scaling the developer community while meeting enterprise operational requirements.

## Why Work Here
- **Culture**: Remote-first, engineering-led, asynchronous collaboration. Values include “Get Sh*t Done,” “Absolutely Own the Outcome,” “Be Excellent but Humble,” “Embrace the Challenge,” and “Be Direct, with Respect.” The company hires “company builders” who thrive on autonomy and purpose.
- **Work policy**: Fully remote with global team; August Fridays off; global offsites and meetups.
- **Benefits**: Premium insurance, stock options, flexible PTO, 12-weeks fully-paid parental leave, educational benefits, end-of-year company shutdown.
- **Engineering culture**: Highly technical peers, open-source core, tough technical challenges, high trust and ownership.

## Sources
1. [tigerdata.com](https://www.tigerdata.com/) – Product overview and integrations
2. [tigerdata.com/about](https://www.tigerdata.com/about) – Founders, funding ($180M total), team, company story
3. [tigerdata.com/careers](https://www.tigerdata.com/careers) – Values, benefits, remote culture, “Year of the Tiger” $110M funding mention
4. [jobs.ashbyhq.com/tigerdata](https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/tigerdata) – Open career opportunities

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