Senior Database Engineer

Job Overview

Seeking a Senior Software Database Engineer to define primary database interface with coding architecture, caching, and analytics store. The role involves scaling horizontally with sharding and multi-region replication with failover, tuning DB performance in memory, I/O, and query execution plans, leading low-downtime migrations for high availability, and building observability tooling for database health.

Responsibilities

• Define database interface with coding architecture
• Scale horizontally with sharding and multi-region replication
• Tune DB performance in memory, I/O, and query execution plans
• Lead low-downtime migrations for high availability
• Build observability tooling for database health

Requirements & Qualifications

• 5+ years in software engineering
• 3+ years in database engineering
• Deep understanding of storage engines and locking in Postgres or MySQL
• Experience with distributed systems in cloud environments (AWS, GCP, Azure)
• Practical vector search experience (Weaviate, Chroma, pgvector) for embeddings