Staff Database Engineer – DBA

Role Overview

• Design and evolve scalable, highly available database architectures for transactional and analytical systems.
• Define long-term‑ data storage, access, and modeling strategies aligned with business growth.
• Lead evaluations of new database technologies, patterns, and cloud capabilities.
• Diagnose complex database performance issues and design solutions involving schema design, indexing strategies, query optimization, caching, and architectural refactoring.
• Conduct end-to-end tuning of ‑high-volume‑ workloads across services and data flows.
• Establish performance baselines, monitoring standards, and proactive optimization strategies.
• Own the reliability and scalability posture of database systems across multiple products and services.
• Define and implement robust backup, restoration, high availability, and ‑disaster recovery‑ strategies.
• Partner with SRE and platform teams to improve observability, automation, and operational efficiency.
• Ensure compliance with data governance practices, security standards, and audit requirements.
• Implement and maintain access control strategies, encryption policies, and data integrity safeguards.
• Establish data modeling standards and best practices for teams across the organization.
• Lead architectural discussions, design reviews, and technical decision-making across engineering teams.
• Guide teams through modernization efforts such as migrations, schema redesigns, and system decompositions.
• Mentor engineers of all levels and elevate database excellence across the organization.
• Develop automation for deployment, maintenance, provisioning, and operational workflows.
• Build internal tools that improve developer experience, reduce manual DBA workload, and standardize processes.

Requirements

• 8+ years of experience in database engineering, data architecture, or related technical roles.
• Deep expertise with relational database systems (e.g., PostgreSQL, MySQL, Aurora, SQL Server).
• Strong proficiency in SQL, performance tuning, indexing strategies, and query optimization.
• Proven experience designing and scaling high throughput, ‑mission critical‑ production systems.
• Extensive experience with backup/recovery strategies, HA/replication patterns, and disaster recovery.
• Ability to diagnose complex system interactions across applications, networks, and databases.
• Strong scripting/automation experience (Python, Bash, PowerShell, etc.).
• Excellent communication and cross team‑ collaboration skills.

Tech Stack

• Cloud
• MySQL
• Postgres
• Python
• SQL