(Senior) Backend Software Engineer (Java) - Metadata Platform DB

Metadata Platform DB owns Postgres provisioning and infrastructure as code, along with a set of Java (and one Rust) components built around it, including a core client library, a database proxy, a schema management tool, and a fork of an open-source sharding solution.

Requirements

• Solid professional experience building Java applications (3+ years mid-level, 7+ years senior).
• Experience with infrastructure and IaC concepts - comfort working with or alongside Terraform or similar provisioning tooling.
• Experience building, packaging, and debugging applications in containerized and Kubernetes environments (Docker/OCI).
• Experience with databases (Postgres preferred over InnoDB/MySQL, with a good grasp of Postgres MVCC and concurrency mechanics from an application perspective) and distributed systems.
• Experience writing and maintaining unit and integration tests.
• Strong communication skills in English and a passion for clean, maintainable code.
• Experience with Rust or Go.
• Experience maintaining a fork of an open-source project.
• Hands-on Terraform experience.
• Experience with monitoring and log analysis tools (e.g., Datadog).
• Familiarity with agentic coding tools (e.g., Claude Code, Cursor, Codex).