Staff Software Engineer - Databases
Core
Architecting and maintaining automated schema change infrastructure for MySQL and TiDB, ensuring safe, predictable, and fast migrations across thousands of global databases.
Role type
Staff Software Engineer (Database Infrastructure)
Builds
Global schema migration platform, CI/CD integration tools, and test harnesses for deployment validation.
Domain
Data Infrastructure / Database Engineering
Deliverable
production ML models | product features | infrastructure
Required skills
Backend systems design, Platform engineering, Database engineering (MySQL, TiDB), Schema migration frameworks, CI/CD automation, High-throughput system scaling, Observability, Test harness design, Developer tooling
Responsibilities
Architecting automated schema change infrastructure, ensuring zero-downtime operations across global databases, designing intuitive APIs for data change management, building test harnesses for migration validation, designing infrastructure for large-scale backfills and purging operations.
Seniority
Staff, hands-on IC with strategic scope
