Staff Platform Database Engineer

Responsibilities

• Define the company-wide strategy and standards for database deployment, management, scaling, and operations.
• Inventory and assess database systems, identify risks, and create a roadmap for improving resiliency and reducing operational risk.
• Design and implement replication, high availability, backups, disaster recovery, migrations, capacity planning, and globally distributed database operations.
• Build production-grade database tooling, governance models, automation, and guardrails.
• Write production code supporting database deployment, management, and reliability.
• Design systems that account for global availability, latency, EU data residency, and data sovereignty requirements.
• Lead company-wide database infrastructure initiatives, author technical design documents, and establish scalable engineering standards.
• Partner with Dev Platform, SRE, Customer Engineering, and engineering teams to drive consistent database practices and architecture adoption.

Requirements

• 8+ years of experience building and operating production database and platform infrastructure in modern cloud environments.
• Significant software, infrastructure, or platform engineering experience focused on database systems.
• Staff-level experience leading complex technical initiatives and influencing architecture across multiple engineering teams.
• Deep experience designing, building, and operating production database infrastructure.
• Strong PostgreSQL and MySQL experience.
• Hands-on experience with replication, high availability, backups and recovery, database migrations, capacity planning, and distributed databases across geographies.
• Experience operating highly available production database systems at scale.
• Experience designing and operating cloud database infrastructure with AWS and Google Cloud.
• Strong server-side Linux experience and proficiency programming in Go.
• Experience writing production code and building infrastructure tooling.
• Ability to evaluate systems, identify risk, and translate findings into an architecture and implementation roadmap.
• Strong communication and cross-functional leadership skills.
• Experience applying AI or automation to database operations and infrastructure workflows.
• Preferred experience with database internals, Terraform or other infrastructure-as-code tools, stateful systems on Kubernetes, internal database platforms, governance, automated policy enforcement, and developer enablement.

Benefits

• Remote-first work culture with team meetups, bi-annual destination summits, and a monthly coworking, phone, and internet stipend.
• Stock options upon hire and promotion, participation in secondary offerings, and 10 years to exercise options.
• 100% company-paid health, vision, and dental insurance premiums for employees and dependents.
• Flexible time off.
• 18 weeks of paid parental leave for birthing parents and 12 weeks for non-birthing parents.