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Senior Software Engineer, Database Systems

Oakland, CA💼 Full-time💰 $173,000–$173,000🗓 2026-04-01 → 2026-07-31

Core

Designing and writing code for robust, scalable, high-performance production data systems and storage layers to power AI-driven features.

Role type

Senior IC database systems engineer

Builds

Core data infrastructure, sharding/replication systems, migration tooling, and observability systems for a legal tech SaaS platform.

Domain

Legal technology / Cloud infrastructure / Distributed systems

Deliverable

production ML models | product features | infrastructure

Required skills

Database internals, storage engines, locking mechanisms, distributed systems, cloud environments, query optimization, schema design, index management, performance tuning, migration strategies, observability tooling

Preferred skills

Vector search, embeddings, RAG, Weaviate, Chroma, pgvector

Technologies

Postgres, MySQL, AWS, GCP, Azure, Linux

Responsibilities

Architect and develop database and storage strategy; Develop and implement sharding and replication systems; Engineer database performance via code-level optimizations; Build migration tooling for low-downtime operations; Build observability systems for database health monitoring; Evaluate and adopt emerging technologies.

Seniority

Senior, hands-on IC

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