Staff Database Platform Engineer

• Build the Database Platform of the Future: Design automation and self-service frameworks for provisioning, scaling, and securing databases across AWS and other cloud-native stores.
• Develop Infrastructure-as-Code modules (Terraform, Helm, Gitlab CI/CD) to eliminate manual operations.
• Establish best practices for service-level databases in a microservices architecture (Postgres, MySQL, DynamoDB, etc.).
• Evaluate and guide architectural decisions for large-scale analytical and ETL workloads, helping choose the right data technologies for performance, cost, and scalability.
• Implement observability solutions (Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog, OpenSearch) for database health at scale.
• Ensure availability, performance, and security of existing large-scale monolithic databases powering critical platform functions.
• Lead efforts to reduce risk, cost, and complexity in legacy systems while preparing them for migration or replacement.
• Guide safe transition of workloads from shared monolithic environments toward decentralized, service-owned models.
• Collaborate with product/platform teams on schema design, query optimization, and database best practices.
• Provide tools, documentation, and onboarding support that empower teams to safely own and manage their databases.
• Mentor DBREs to evolve from traditional DBA skillsets toward platform engineering and automation-first practices.
• Influence organizational culture toward shift-left ownership of databases.
• Participate in incident response/postmortems across both monolithic and service-owned systems.

• 10 years of experience in database reliability, platform engineering, or cloud infrastructure roles.
• Strong experience with Infrastructure-as-Code and automation (Terraform, Helm, GitLab CI/CD, Kubernetes Operators, etc.).
• Proficiency with cloud-managed relational databases (PostgreSQL/MySQL on RDS/Aurora) and cloud-native databases (DynamoDB).
• Proficiency with performance tuning, query optimization, and schema design.
• Experience modernizing and migrating legacy databases, including those used as ETL sources, into more scalable systems.
• Solid Linux skills and scripting (Python, Shell).
• Hands-on experience with observability stacks (Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog, OpenSearch) and building reliable monitoring/alerting frameworks.
• Ability to mentor DBREs/DBAs into platform engineers and influence engineering culture toward shift-left ownership of databases.
• Excellent communicator and collaborator, able to bridge product, platform, DBRE, and data teams.

Pay range: $140K - $210K

• Up to 100% paid premiums for Medical and Vision coverage.
• Access to mental wellness resources, including Modern Health.
• Flexible PTO policy and 15 paid holidays.
• No Internal Meetings Fridays.
• Competitive 401(k) plan, short-term and long-term disability coverage, and life insurance.