Staff Datebase Engineer
Core
Lead large-scale data infrastructure projects, migrations, and platform development for a high-volume SaaS serving local business owners.
Role type
Staff Database Engineer (hands-on IC)
Builds
Data infrastructure, data-sync utilities, ORM primitives, caching, search, and event streaming systems.
Domain
SaaS / Local Business Technology / High-volume OLTP
Deliverable
production ML models | product features | infrastructure
Required skills
Relational database expertise (Postgres), schema design, indexing, query optimization, zero-downtime migrations, software engineering (code review/shipping), system scaling
Preferred skills
OLTP access patterns, MongoDB migration, caching (Redis), search, event streaming, payments/financial data, cloud infrastructure (AWS/GCP), Terraform
Technologies
Postgres, MongoDB, Redis, AWS, GCP, Terraform
Responsibilities
Lead migration of product workloads, define data storage and access patterns for product engineers, build reusable data platform primitives, expand platform into caching/search/streaming
Seniority
Staff, hands-on IC
