Staff Database Engineer

Role Description

We are looking for a Staff Database Engineer to take primary ownership of the reliability, availability, and recoverability of Chaturbate's large PostgreSQL environment. Our PostgreSQL estate operates at significant scale, spans multiple production clusters, holds terabytes of data, and has tables containing billions of rows. These databases support critical user experiences and revenue-generating features, and must be extremely reliable, support rapid recovery capabilities, and provide consistently high performance.

You will work as part of the Site Reliability Engineering team to:

• Prevent database incidents
• Strengthen high availability and disaster recovery
• Improve confidence in our backup and restore procedures
• Ensure that maintenance and upgrades can be completed safely

When incidents occur, you will provide the PostgreSQL expertise needed to:

• Diagnose complex failures
• Restore service
• Prevent recurrence

This is an opportunity to take meaningful ownership of a business-critical database environment at substantial scale. You will have the autonomy to:

• Identify reliability risks
• Establish operational standards
• Influence architecture
• Shape how PostgreSQL is operated as the platform continues to grow

This is a hands-on engineering role focused on building resilient data infrastructure, not just administering it.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of hands-on experience operating PostgreSQL in large-scale, business-critical production environments
• Deep knowledge of PostgreSQL reliability, including replication, failover, backup, recovery, and high availability
• Experience in preventing, diagnosing, and resolving complex production database incidents
• Experience in planning and safely executing PostgreSQL upgrades, migrations, and maintenance
• Strong understanding of PostgreSQL internals, including WAL, autovacuum, indexing, locking, query planning, and connection management
• Experience supporting high-volume workloads, large data sets, or rapidly growing databases
• Strong Linux knowledge and an understanding of how infrastructure affects database performance and reliability
• Ability to automate operational work through scripting, configuration management, or infrastructure tooling
• Experience building monitoring, alerting, runbooks, and reliable incident-response practices
• Strong communication and judgment, with the ability to work effectively across SRE and product engineering teams

Requirements

• Experience with Patroni, PgBouncer, or comparable PostgreSQL high-availability and connection-pooling technologies
• Experience designing or testing multi-region database recovery strategies
• Familiarity with infrastructure-as-code, configuration management, and modern observability platforms
• Experience building PostgreSQL operational knowledge within an SRE or infrastructure organization
• Experience supporting high-traffic consumer platforms, real-time systems, or revenue-critical transaction flows
• Experience with the Python Django web framework

Benefits

• Fair and competitive base salary
• Fully Remote Optional
• Health, Vision, Dental, and Life Insurance for you and any dependents, with policy premiums covered by the Company
• Long & Short term disability insurance
• Unlimited PTO
• Annual Year-End Company Closure
• Optional 401k with 5% matching
• 12 Paid Holidays
• Paid Lunches in-office, or if Remote, a $125/week stipend via Sharebite
• Employee Assistance and Employee Recognition Programs
• And much more!