Senior Manager, Database Platform

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in United States.

📋 Description

• Oversee the Database Platform team that is responsible for the data infrastructure supporting NodeZero pentests, findings, and reports.

• Recruit, mentor, and develop a team of around eight engineers, including a Principal Engineer.

• Cultivate database engineering standards and foster a culture of ownership.

• Collaborate with the Principal Engineer to define the technical roadmap for NodeZero’s data platform.

• Establish standards for schema design, query patterns, migration strategies, and scalability principles.

• Take responsibility for SLOs related to database availability, query latency, and data integrity across production environments.

• Enhance on-call maturity and improve the quality of runbooks.

• Create processes for schema reviews and set standards for data modeling.

• Ensure the data model evolves smoothly as new pentest capabilities are introduced.

• Work alongside Data Ingestion, Security Research, and API Platform teams on data contracts, API design, and pipeline dependencies.

• Convert data platform requirements from Security Research and Product into a prioritized engineering roadmap.

• Develop the Database Platform team into a fully staffed, top-tier data platform organization.

⛳️ Requirements

• Proven experience leading teams that design, scale, and manage relational databases, particularly PostgreSQL, and hybrid data stores in production environments.

• Experience in defining schema migration strategies for high-velocity production settings with zero-downtime requirements.

• Familiarity with multi-tenant data architectures, customer data isolation, row-level security, and data residency issues.

• Strong knowledge of query optimization, indexing techniques, EXPLAIN analysis, and connection pooling.

• Experience in building or significantly enhancing an engineering team, including recruitment and onboarding processes.

• Proven ability to establish engineering norms, schema review processes, data integrity standards, operational runbooks, and on-call rotations.

• Capability to influence architectural decisions through design documents, structured reviews, and consensus-building activities.

• Ability to collaborate effectively with a Principal Engineer.

• Extensive proficiency in Go, Python, or SQL.

• Production experience with PostgreSQL at scale, including partitioning, logical replication, pg_bouncer/pgpool, and read replicas.

• Experience with AWS data services such as RDS/Aurora, DynamoDB, or ElastiCache.

• Knowledge of Kubernetes and containerized database operations, including stateful workload management.

• Familiarity with graph databases or time-series stores is considered a strong advantage.

• A background in cybersecurity data, threat intelligence feeds, or vulnerability databases is a plus.

• Experience with SOC 2, FedRAMP, or GDPR/CCPA data handling requirements is a nice to have.

• Familiarity with BI tools, OLAP workloads, or customer-facing analytics is a nice to have.

• Experience managing databases in multi-region or active-active configurations is a nice to have.

• Up to 5% travel may be necessary.

• Must be legally authorized to work in the United States; sponsorship may be required.

🏝️ Benefits

• Equity package in the form of stock options for all full-time positions.

• Health, vision, and dental insurance for you and your family.

• Flexible vacation policy.

• Generous parental leave.

• Opportunities for career development.

• An inclusive and collaborative work environment.

• Remote work model.

• Competitive salary and benefits.