Staff Database Engineer
TensorWave5 months ago
Las Vegas, NV, USAStaff+
Responsibilities
- Design and own database architecture for PostgreSQL-backed internal platforms, Slurm, NetBox, automation services, observability systems, inventory systems, and future control-plane services
- Define standards for high availability, replication, failover, backup and restore, point-in-time recovery, performance baselining, capacity planning, upgrades, access control, and operational security
- Operate and improve production PostgreSQL, MySQL, Percona, and adjacent database environments
- Manage database provisioning, configuration, upgrades, replication topologies, performance tuning, backup validation, disaster recovery testing, decommissioning, documentation, and runbooks
- Troubleshoot query latency, lock contention, replication lag, storage I/O bottlenecks, connection exhaustion, indexing and schema issues, capacity constraints, and backup or restore failures
- Support SlurmDBD, accounting data, job history, reporting queries, retention, scaling, backup, recovery, and operational reliability
- Support NetBox and source-of-truth database performance, lifecycle planning, data integrity, backup and restore validation, schema-impact review, and automation integrations
- Build deep observability for query performance, execution plans, index usage, replication health, locking, buffer/cache efficiency, storage latency, connection pools, and OS-level bottlenecks
- Create performance baselines, alerting standards, preventive monitoring, automation, and operational guardrails
- Automate database provisioning, configuration, backup verification, health checks, replication checks, permissions, upgrades, monitoring deployment, and runbook-driven recovery
- Contribute database modules, roles, and workflows to Ansible, CI/CD pipelines, and internal automation platforms
- Lead major database incidents, including triage, root cause analysis, coordination, impact analysis, postmortems, corrective actions, and remediation
- Mentor L4 and L5 engineers and provide senior technical review for database-impacting infrastructure and platform changes
Requirements
- 8+ years of production database engineering, database administration, or database architecture experience
- Strong hands-on PostgreSQL production experience
- Strong hands-on experience with MySQL, Percona, or equivalent relational database platforms
- Experience designing and operating highly available database systems with replication, failover, backup, restore, and disaster recovery validation
- Deep SQL performance tuning experience, including execution plan analysis, index design, query rewriting, schema optimization, lock contention troubleshooting, and storage/I/O analysis
- Strong Linux systems knowledge
- Experience supporting production incidents, performing root cause analysis, and improving database monitoring and observability
- Ability to work across infrastructure, DevOps, platform, and application engineering teams
- Ability to define standards, influence architecture, and mentor engineers without direct management authority
- Preferred experience with SlurmDBD, Slurm accounting databases, or HPC/AI infrastructure database workloads
- Preferred experience with NetBox or other infrastructure source-of-truth platforms
- Preferred experience with Percona XtraDB Cluster, ProxySQL, advanced MySQL/Percona architectures, and PostgreSQL HA tooling
- Preferred experience with Prometheus, Grafana, PMM, Splunk, eBPF/BCC, perf, strace, or similar tools
- Preferred experience supporting databases for SaaS, cloud, HPC, AI infrastructure, or large multi-tenant platforms
- Preferred experience with MongoDB, Oracle, SQL Server, or other secondary database platforms
- Preferred experience with database automation using Ansible, Terraform, CI/CD systems, or internal tooling
- Preferred experience with zero-downtime migrations, major version upgrades, and production database consolidation
Benefits
- Stock options
- 100% paid medical, dental, and vision insurance for employees
- Company HSA contributions
- 100% paid short-term and long-term disability insurance for employees
- Life and voluntary supplemental insurance options, including pet and legal insurance
- Supplementary health benefits, including discounted virtual healthcare appointments and serious illness support
- Flexible Spending Account
- 401(k)
- Employee Assistance Program
- Flexible PTO
- Paid holidays
- Parental leave
- Other in-office perks
- Employment is contingent upon identity and U.S. work authorization verification; a job-related background check may apply where permitted
Tech Stack
About TensorWave
TensorWave builds an AMD‑exclusive cloud platform for AI workloads, providing Instinct MI325X and MI355X GPU instances and tooling for training, fine‑tuning, and inference, including an inference engine. It sells infrastructure-as-a-service to startups and enterprises that need scalable AI compute. Founded in 2023 and headquartered in Las Vegas, Nevada, the company focuses on GPU‑accelerated cloud infrastructure for generative AI and machine learning teams.