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Senior Software Engineer - Database

US - Seattle💼 Full-time🗓 2026-04-16 → 2026-09-26

Core

Design and build platforms, automation, and AI-driven tooling to make database infrastructure invisible and self-service for product engineers.

Role type

Senior IC SRE/Platform Engineer (Database Infrastructure)

Builds

Unified observability platform, MCP interfaces for AI agents, Agentic AI DBA automation, self-service database provisioning platform

Domain

Fintech / Global Payments / Cloud Infrastructure (GCP)

Deliverable

production ML models | infrastructure

Required skills

Python, Go, Java, or Kotlin; PostgreSQL (performance tuning, replication, schema design); Redis (clustering, persistence); GCP (CloudSQL, Memorystore); Terraform; Kubernetes; Docker; System Design; Automation/Tooling Engineering

Preferred skills

Internal Developer Platforms (IDP); AI/LLM integration for operations; MCP (Model Context Protocol); Observability stack (Grafana, Prometheus, Datadog); Fintech domain experience

Technologies

Postgres, Redis, GCP, CloudSQL, Memorystore, Terraform, Kubernetes, Docker, MCP, Grafana, Prometheus, Datadog

Responsibilities

Build unified database observability platform; Build MCP interfaces for safe AI agent access; Develop Agentic AI DBA for routine tasks; Create self-service database platform; Drive database reliability and operational excellence; Collaborate with engineering teams on performance and schema design

Seniority

Senior, hands-on IC

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