Senior Software Engineer II, Managed Databases

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

📋 Description

• Design and implement scalable database-as-a-service (DBaaS) control-plane and infrastructure components.

• Transform 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.

• Deliver enhancements related to automated failover, continuous backups, point-in-time recovery (PITR), and maintenance workflows.

• Expand the infrastructure to support compute-intensive and high-concurrency data-heavy workloads as well as AI inference-related tasks.

• Direct technical decisions through design and code reviews.

• Create design documentation for initiatives you lead.

• Provide mentorship to engineers through technical advice, architectural evaluations, and code quality standards.

• Establish practices for observability, failover, and recovery.

• Engage in on-call duties and translate incident learnings into platform enhancements.

• Work collaboratively with product and engineering teams across DBaaS and related platform divisions.

⛳️ 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 equivalent).

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

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

• Strong comprehension of concurrency, failure modes, multi-region issues, and performance optimization in production Linux/cloud settings.

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

• Proven history of leading complex technical projects across teams, mentoring engineers, and clearly communicating trade-offs with stakeholders and leadership.

• Openness to 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 line with company policy.

• Eligibility for an annual bonus plan for non-sales roles, subject to plan terms and local eligibility.

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

• Opportunity to participate in an Employee Stock Purchase Program in eligible countries.

• Commitment to equal-opportunity employment.