Senior Software Engineer II, Managed Databases

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

📋 Description

• Design and implement scalable DBaaS control-plane and infrastructure components.

• Convert customer and system requirements into technical designs and actionable workstreams.

• Enhance resource utilization, fault tolerance, and availability by profiling and making targeted adjustments to I/O, CPU, and network bottlenecks.

• Provide automated failover, continuous backups, point-in-time recovery (PITR), and improvements to maintenance workflows.

• Scale control-plane and infrastructure systems to support data-intensive and AI inference-adjacent workloads.

• Guide technical decisions through both design and code reviews.

• Create clear design documentation for initiatives undertaken.

• Mentor engineers by offering technical guidance, conducting architectural reviews, and ensuring adherence to code-quality standards.

• Establish practices for observability, failover, and recovery.

• Engage in on-call duties and transform incident insights into platform enhancements.

⛳️ Requirements

• Over 8 years of professional experience in software engineering, focusing on building and managing large-scale distributed systems or data-plane/control-plane infrastructure (SaaS/PaaS or similar).

• A proven history of diagnosing and resolving intricate, high-concurrency engineering challenges in production cloud settings.

• Familiarity with the internals of relational database engines, particularly PostgreSQL and/or MySQL, including aspects like query performance, replication, and scalability (preferred).

• Strong comprehension of concurrency, failure modes, multi-region considerations, and performance optimization within production Linux/cloud environments.

• Experience in scaling services to meet the compute, memory, and networking needs of data-intensive or AI inference-related workloads (preferred).

• Demonstrated ability to lead complex cross-team technical projects, mentor engineers, and communicate trade-offs effectively with partners and leadership.

• A willingness to receive feedback and a commitment to a “leave it better than you found it” philosophy regarding architecture and maintainability.

🏝️ Benefits

• Flexible time off.

• Local team meetups.

• Support for mental health and well-being.

• Reimbursement for relevant conferences, training, and education, in accordance with company policy.

• Eligibility for an annual bonus plan for non-sales positions.

• Potential equity grant for new hires, subject to plan terms and local eligibility.

• Participation in the Employee Stock Purchase Program in applicable countries.

• Commitment to equal-opportunity employment.