Senior Software Engineer II, Managed Databases

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

📋 Description

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

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

• Enhance resource utilization, fault tolerance, availability, and production performance.

• Develop workflows for automated failover, continuous backups, point-in-time recovery, and maintenance.

• Scale infrastructure to accommodate data-intensive and AI inference-adjacent workloads.

• Guide technical decisions via design and code reviews.

• Mentor engineers by providing technical guidance, conducting architectural reviews, and enforcing code-quality standards.

• Establish observability, failover, and recovery practices; participate in on-call duties.

• Transform incident learnings into sustainable platform enhancements.

⛳️ Requirements

• A minimum of 8 years of professional software engineering experience in building and operating large-scale distributed systems or data-plane/control-plane infrastructure.

• Demonstrated ability to diagnose and resolve complex, high-concurrency engineering challenges in production cloud environments.

• Proficient understanding of relational database engine internals, particularly PostgreSQL and/or MySQL, including query performance, replication, and scaling.

• Strong grasp of concurrency, failure modes, multi-region issues, 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-adjacent workloads.

• Proven history of leading complex cross-team technical projects, mentoring engineers, and clearly communicating trade-offs.

• 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.

• Mental health and well-being support.

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

• Eligibility for an annual bonus plan.

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

• Participation in the Employee Stock Purchase Program in eligible countries, subject to eligibility.