Senior Software Engineer, Enterprise at Tiger Data
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Jul 15, 2026
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Jul 21, 2026
What this job asks for AI summary
An early-career engineering role focused on building and expanding an on-premises enterprise deployment and management platform for TimescaleDB. Day-to-day work spans management consoles in React/TypeScript, backend APIs in Go, and deployment automation with Ansible, alongside operational tooling for production PostgreSQL environments. Best suited to someone with roughly 1–3 years of experience who wants to grow into product thinking alongside hands-on engineering, and is comfortable with ambiguity in a fast-moving remote team.
Junior level · 1+ years · Remote · Full-time
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How this req sits in the market our data
Roughly 10,100 people nationally plausibly meet what this posting asks for (software developers). range 6,100–15,200
Applicant volume Moderate — A normal amount of company. The rare requirements below are what will separate a shortlisted application from the rest.
Rare in this occupation — lead with these, and say what you built with them.
Most people in this occupation already list these. Still required — just not what gets you shortlisted.
What the occupation pays Median $138,970 (middle half $107,524–$175,762).
Estimated from BLS employment for this occupation and area, per-skill prevalence across our listing corpus, and published wage benchmarks — as of Jul 28, 2026. It is a model, not a headcount.
Why we read it this way (10)
The posting explicitly targets early-career candidates with roughly 1–3 years of experience (including internships), framing this as a junior/growth role — seniority is set to Junior accordingly, even though the title 'Software Engineer' carries no level modifier.
Go and TypeScript are listed together in the requirements section as the primary languages, with the JD accepting either one or a demonstrated ability to pick up new languages quickly — emitted as a single skill with the other as an alternative.
React is called out explicitly as the frontend framework for management consoles; it is listed in the core responsibilities section alongside Go and Ansible.
Ansible is listed in the core responsibilities as a required capability for deployment workflows and configuration management.
Linux fundamentals (shell, SSH, services, containers, basic networking) are stated as required under 'Technical experience that will help you succeed.'
PostgreSQL, distributed systems, and deployment automation are explicitly called 'a strong plus' — preferred, not required.
Docker, Kubernetes, AWS, and Python appear only in the 'Our Tech Stack' narrative section, which the posting itself notes does not require prior experience — treated as preferred/context only.
The role is restricted to US Eastern or Central Time Zone candidates despite being fully remote; no specific metro is inferred per caller instruction.
No compensation figures are disclosed in the posting.
Caller marked this a fully-remote role — scored against the national candidate pool.
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