Senior Database Performance Engineer (PostgreSQL)

At Cafeto Software, we’re looking for a Database Performance Engineer to help a US-based enterprise pricing software company improve the performance and stability of the databases behind its products. This is a hands-on role focused on diagnosing and solving performance problems, not on routine database administration.What you’ll doDiagnose and resolve database performance issues that affect customers in production.Tune SQL queries by analyzing execution plans, indexes, and statistics.Review and optimize custom SQL, stored procedures, and functions.Monitor, analyze, and stabilize database environments.Partner with application engineers to improve data-access patterns.What we’re looking forSolid hands-on experience optimizing databases and SQL queries in production environments.Strong PostgreSQL skills.Deep understanding of execution plans, indexing strategies, and statistics.Experience writing and optimizing stored procedures and functions.Advanced English and the ability to work with distributed teams across US time zones.Nice to haveExperience with pg_stat_statements, EXPLAIN ANALYZE, or similar monitoring and analysis tools.Experience with SQL Server.Experience with AI-assisted development tools.