Staff Database Engineer

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in United States, +2 more countries.

📋 Description

• Spearhead the migration of product workloads.

• Provide product engineers with a definitive guide on "where should this data reside and how can I access it?"

• Create reusable components, including data-sync tools, ORM best practices, and reviews of access patterns, schemas, and indexes, to prevent teams from duplicating efforts.

• Gradually enhance the product-data platform to incorporate caching, search capabilities, and event streaming.

⛳️ Requirements

• Practical experience in managing databases within the product, including ownership of OLTP access patterns, indexing, query optimization, and schema design for user-facing applications.

• Proficient in both coding within the product stack and conducting thorough analysis at the database level.

• Extensive knowledge of a major relational database engine (Postgres is highly preferred) in high-volume production environments; experience in workload migrations (e.g., from MongoDB to Postgres) is a significant advantage.

• Expertise in schema design, indexing, query optimization, and performing zero-downtime migrations on large, live tables.

• Experience in scaling systems to handle substantial traffic and data growth, particularly in domains where understanding access patterns at scale is crucial, such as advertising analytics, fintech/trading systems, large-scale consumer SaaS, or marketplaces.

• Strong software engineering skills — able to write, review, and deliver production code beyond just SQL.

• Adaptable problem-solving capabilities.

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.

• A robust sense of personal ownership and accountability.

• A mindset geared towards building and innovation.

• Nice to Haves:

• Experience in developing shared platform components, such as data-sync tools, ORM best practices, caching (Redis), search, or event streaming/queues.

• Background in payments or financial data.

• Familiarity with cloud infrastructure (AWS/GCP), infrastructure-as-code (Terraform), and observability/performance tools.

🏝️ Benefits

• Health insurance.

• Retirement plans.

• Paid time off.

• Flexible work arrangements.

• Opportunities for professional development.