Staff Database Engineer
TensorWaveabout 2 hours ago
Las Vegas, NV, USAStaff+
Responsibilities
- Design and own database architecture for critical infrastructure and platform services.
- Define standard database patterns for high availability, replication, and performance baselining.
- Operate and improve production database environments across PostgreSQL and MySQL.
- Troubleshoot and resolve production database issues.
- Serve as the senior database engineering owner for infrastructure-adjacent database platforms.
- Build deep database observability and maintain visibility into query performance.
- Create database automation patterns integrated with existing infrastructure tooling.
- Act as the technical lead for major database incidents and mentor junior engineers.
Requirements
- 8+ years of production database engineering or administration experience.
- Strong hands-on experience with PostgreSQL in production environments.
- Experience designing and operating highly available database systems.
- Deep SQL performance tuning experience.
- Strong Linux systems knowledge.
- Ability to work across infrastructure, DevOps, and application engineering teams.
Benefits
- Stock Options.
- 100% paid Medical, Dental, and Vision insurance for Employees.
- Company Health Savings Account Contributions.
- 100% paid Short Term and Long Term Disability Insurance for Employees.
- Flexible PTO and Paid Holidays.
- Parental Leave.