Staff Cloud Database Engineer
Skills
- Deep hands-on experience with PostgreSQL, MySQL, and MongoDB in production.
- Proven experience designing HA, replication, clustering, and DR strategies.
- Strong Linux/Unix administration skills and comfort with shell tooling.
- Experience with one or more cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, Azure) and managed DB services.
- Familiarity with infrastructure-as-code and automation tools (Terraform, CloudFormation, Ansible).
- Experience with performance tuning, query optimization, and capacity planning.
- Comfortable participating in on-call rotations supporting mission-critical services.
Responsibilities
- Lead full lifecycle database management: schema design, migrations, replication, partitioning, upgrades, and disaster recovery planning.
- Architect, administer, and optimize high-availability PostgreSQL clusters for OLTP and OLAP workloads.
- Automate deployment, scaling, and recovery processes to improve availability and reduce manual toil in production.
- Collaborate with application, SRE, and data engineering teams to align database platform strategy and roadmap.
- Support large-scale database instances across production, non-production, and development environments.
- Participate in rotational on-call and maintenance support for database infrastructure.
- Perform regular upgrades, patching, vulnerability remediation, and security hardening.
- Define and enforce best practices for query optimization, indexing, and performance tuning.
- Partner with InfoSec and Compliance to ensure alignment with HIPAA, SOC2, GDPR, and privacy requirements.
Education
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems, or equivalent experience.
- Advanced degree in a related field or relevant certifications are a plus.
Benefits
- Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision coverage
- 401(k) plan with company match
- Annual bonus program
- Paid time off and company holidays
- Flexible/remote-friendly work with encouraged office collaboration 1-2 days/week
- Professional development opportunities and continued learning
- Employee assistance programs and wellness resources
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