Data Architect

Timescale is hiring a Data Architect for our growing, international team! The right candidate will be comfortable providing deep technical assistance and strategy, along with high-level architecture and planning for growth and scale and interacting with customers on a day-to-day basis. You should have deep experience with relational databases (PostgreSQL is a strong plus!) and must quickly gain a detailed understanding of TimescaleDB. You should have a “can do it” attitude, where helping the user comes first. Timescale is a remote-first organization; this is a full-time position with a preferred location in any Western European timezone. 

What You Will Do:

• Be a strategic partner for our customers, helping them plan, execute, and succeed with their initial and ongoing usage and growth with Timescaledb.

• Manage technical customer relationships, working closely with Customer Success, Technical Support, and Product Management to drive engagement.

• Develop and maintain close relationships with our customers to help them be successful today and help them discover more and different opportunities for Timescaledb in their business in the future.

• Help develop educational content based on customer needs and desires.

• Be curious, always willing to learn, and always looking for ways to improve our products, processes, and culture. 

What You Need:

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, information systems, or equivalent experience.

• Relational DB experience at scale: administration, data modeling, query optimization

• Experience as a technical support professional, Technical Account Manager, Solutions Architect, Consultant, or similar role with external customers.

• Strong aptitude for understanding and learning new software products.

• Strong communication skills and the ability to express complex technical concepts to a varied audience.

• A thorough and holistic approach to data platforms, data analysis, and infrastructure.

Other Things that Will Help: 

• Be familiar with TimescaleDB! You should download and test it out before you apply.

• Familiarity with broad cloud computing concepts and experience with AWS, GCP, and Azure.

• Experience with Relational databases, NoSQL databases, data modeling tools, ETL Pipelines, and data lifecycle management.

• Familiarity with Postgresql, including best practices, Query Plan analysis, backup/restore, migrations, etc

• A strong sense of curiosity and a willingness to wade into the unknown and learn as you go.

About Timescale:

At Timescale, we are dedicated to serving developers worldwide, enabling them to build exceptional data-driven products that measure everything that matters: software applications, industrial equipment, financial markets, blockchain activity, consumer behavior, machine learning models, climate change, and more. Analyzing this data across the time dimension (“time-series data”) enables developers to understand what is happening right now, how that is changing, and why that is changing. Timescale develops TimescaleDB, the category-defining open-source relational database for time-series data, and offers fully-managed TimescaleDB and related database services. Timescale is a remote-first company with a global workforce and is backed by Benchmark Capital, New Enterprise Associates, Redpoint Ventures, Icon Ventures, Two Sigma Ventures, and other leading investors.