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Software Engineer, User Database Infrastructure

San Francisco, California💼 Full-time💰 $299,000–$299,000🗓 2026-09-16 → 2026-09-26

Core

Build scalable user database infrastructure and systems that allow knowledge workers to leverage fast, Postgres-based databases without DBA-level expertise.

Role type

Senior backend engineering lead (database infrastructure)

Builds

Customer database provisioning systems, schema evolution tools, query execution engines, and fleet management for Postgres instances.

Domain

SaaS / Collaborative AI workspace / Relational Database Systems

Deliverable

production ML models | product features | infrastructure

Required skills

Production relational database expertise (Postgres/MySQL), technical leadership, backend engineering fundamentals, performance optimization, product judgment, cross-stack engineering, AI-assisted engineering

Preferred skills

Database fleet management, advanced Postgres optimization, query layer/sync engine development

Technologies

Postgres, Go, TypeScript, Node.js, React

Responsibilities

Lead a new product from alpha to general availability, optimize query execution and data loading for large workloads, ensure reliability of schema changes and concurrent writes, design approachable database provisioning experiences, automate fleet operations and strengthen observability

Seniority

Senior, hands-on technical leader

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