Database Engineer

Role Description

We are seeking a highly skilled and detail-oriented Database Engineer to lead and scale our database infrastructure. In this role, you will be responsible for:

• Schema modernization
• Query performance optimization
• Data pipeline management
• Cross-team database architecture

This is a hands-on and strategic role that offers the opportunity to build and optimize the database systems that underpin Limble's platform and support the continued success of our expanding base of unsung heroes. This role reports directly to the VP of Engineering and collaborates closely with key stakeholders across product engineering, quality engineering, and data teams.

How you’ll make an impact:

• Design, plan, and lead the execution of a relational schema modernization project, ensuring continuity for customers throughout the migration.
• Partner with product engineering teams to design and implement performant database schema and query patterns for new features and services.
• Analyze and optimize existing query patterns across the application to improve response times and reduce infrastructure costs.
• Collaborate with the quality engineering team to design and implement dev/test data management strategies that accelerate development velocity.
• Help shape broad system architecture through innovative database solutions that scale with Limble's growing customer base.
• Monitor and manage change data capture (CDC) and ETL processes to ensure reliable, timely data flow across systems.
• Identify and proactively tackle system-wide technical debt in the database layer, contributing to methods and procedures used across engineering.
• Debug complex technical problems spanning application code and database behavior, and support implementation of database solutions through software development.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of experience with relational databases (Oracle, SQL Server, PostgreSQL)
• 5+ years with MySQL or MariaDB
• 5+ years of experience designing and building web applications
• Strong track record of building, optimizing, and scaling databases based on feedback from customers and internal teams
• Proven experience planning and executing large-scale schema migrations with minimal or zero downtime
• Strong understanding of query optimization, indexing strategies, and database performance tuning best practices
• Experience with change data capture (CDC) and ETL pipeline design and operations
• Strong track record of delivering projects with broad business impact across multiple teams
• Excellent problem-solving skills and ability to work under tight deadlines
• Exceptional communication skills, with a history of successfully collaborating in a cross-functional team environment
• Attention to detail and quality
• Open to on-call rotation
• Experience coding with Node.js, Golang, and PHP a plus
• Experience with implementing and scaling NoSQL solutions a plus

Benefits

• $175,000 - $190,000 annually
• Fully remote position
• Flexible PTO
• 13 paid company holidays
• Paid parental leave
• Health, Dental, and Vision insurance
• Employer paid Basic Life insurance and Short-Term Disability insurance
• Company contribution match for HSA and 401(k)
• Flexible Spending Accounts
• Monthly employee wellness stipend
• Opportunities for Learning and Development Reimbursement
• Pet insurance