About the Role
The role involves owning the design, deployment, and optimization of database infrastructure across production environments, ensuring reliability, performance, and security at scale.
Responsibilities
- Design and implement scalable database solutions for high-traffic systems
- Monitor database performance and troubleshoot issues proactively
- Automate deployment and management of database services
- Ensure data integrity, availability, and disaster recovery readiness
- Collaborate with development teams to optimize queries and schemas
- Enforce security policies and access controls for database environments
- Upgrade and patch database systems to maintain stability and compliance
- Evaluate and integrate new database technologies and tools
- Support incident response and root cause analysis for database outages
- Document architecture, configurations, and operational procedures
- Participate in on-call rotations for critical system support
- Tune database configurations for optimal performance and resource usage
- Manage replication, clustering, and failover mechanisms
- Work with cloud infrastructure providers to optimize database deployments
- Implement backup and recovery strategies for critical data stores
- Contribute to capacity planning and scalability assessments
- Enforce compliance with data governance and regulatory standards
- Mentor junior engineers and share technical expertise
- Integrate observability tools for real-time monitoring and alerting
- Support migration of databases across versions or platforms
- Optimize costs associated with database storage and compute resources
- Develop self-service tooling for internal teams to manage databases
- Ensure consistency between development, staging, and production environments
- Promote best practices in database operations across engineering teams
- Collaborate on cross-functional projects involving data architecture
Compensation
Competitive salary and benefits package
Work Arrangement
Hybrid work model with flexibility for remote or office-based work
Team
Collaborative engineering team focused on scalable database systems
Why This Role Matters
Database systems are central to application performance and data integrity. This role ensures that core infrastructure remains resilient, efficient, and aligned with business growth.
What We Value
We prioritize technical depth, proactive problem solving, and collaboration. Engineers are expected to take ownership and drive improvements across the data platform.
Available for qualified candidates
