Senior Software Engineer II, Managed Databases

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

📋 Description

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

• Transform unclear customer and system requirements into technical designs and actionable workstreams.

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

• Deliver automated failover solutions, continuous backups, point-in-time recovery, and improvements in maintenance workflows.

• Broaden infrastructure that supports compute-intensive and high-concurrency data and AI workloads.

• Influence technical decisions through design and code evaluations.

• Produce clear design documentation for initiatives led.

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

• Implement observability, failover, and recovery methodologies.

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

⛳️ Requirements

• Over 8 years of professional software engineering experience in developing and managing large-scale distributed systems or data-plane/control-plane infrastructure.

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

• In-depth knowledge of relational database engine internals, particularly PostgreSQL and/or MySQL, including aspects like query performance, replication, and scalability (preferred).

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

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

• Proven ability to lead complex technical projects across teams, mentor engineers, and clearly communicate trade-offs with partners and leadership.

• Eagerness for feedback and a commitment to a “leave it better than you found it” philosophy regarding architecture and maintainability.

🏝️ Benefits

• Flexible time off.

• Local team gatherings.

• Support for mental health and well-being.

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

• Eligible employees may qualify for equity compensation, which can include a new hire equity grant.

• Opportunity to join the Employee Stock Purchase Program in participating countries.

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

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