Backend Engineer

Xata is hiring Backend Engineers to join its Control Plane, Data Plane, or Storage teams. They're looking for engineers who enjoy building distributed systems, have strong backend development skills, and are highly self-directed. Work on the infrastructure that gives AI agents their own isolated Postgres environments at scale.

Responsibilities

  • - Build and scale distributed backend systems for Xata's Postgres infrastructure
  • - Work across Control Plane, Data Plane, or Storage teams depending on fit
  • - Design and implement TypeScript services powering instant Postgres branching for AI agents
  • - Ensure reliability, performance, and security of database infrastructure
  • - Collaborate with a small, senior, highly self-directed engineering team
  • - Contribute to a developer-first product roadmap at the frontier of agentic AI

Benefits & Perks

- Competitive salary + equity - Remote (EU-eligible) - Work on database infrastructure at the frontier of AI agent development - Small, senior, highly self-directed team - Developer-first culture with strong open-source ethos

Requirements

  • - Strong backend engineering experience with distributed systems
  • - TypeScript and Node.js proficiency
  • - PostgreSQL, Kubernetes, or database infrastructure experience a strong plus
  • - Highly self-directed — comfortable owning problems from first principles
  • - Interest in the intersection of databases and AI agents
  • - Remote-friendly, EU-eligible

About Xata

Xata is building Postgres for agentic workloads. As AI agents become software's newest users, they need isolated Postgres environments to experiment, test, and execute safely. Xata enables companies to create Postgres branches instantly, giving every AI agent its own environment with production-like data. A developer-first database infrastructure company at the frontier of the AI agent era.

Company Size

11–50 employees employees

Industry

Database Infrastructure / Developer Tools / AI

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