Staff Database Engineer
TensorWave5 months ago
Remote, United StatesStaff+
Responsibilities
- Design and own database architecture and production readiness standards for critical infrastructure and platform services.
- Operate PostgreSQL, MySQL, Percona, and related database environments, including provisioning, upgrades, replication, failover, backup, restore, disaster recovery, and decommissioning.
- Troubleshoot query latency, lock contention, replication lag, storage bottlenecks, connection exhaustion, indexing issues, schema problems, capacity constraints, and backup or restore failures.
- Support SlurmDBD, Slurm accounting systems, NetBox, and infrastructure source-of-truth databases.
- Develop database observability, performance baselines, alerting, monitoring, and preventive operational guardrails.
- Automate database provisioning, configuration, backup verification, health checks, permissions management, upgrades, monitoring deployment, and recovery workflows.
- Lead database incident response, root cause analysis, postmortems, corrective actions, and long-term remediation.
- Mentor L4 and L5 engineers and provide 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 production experience with PostgreSQL and with MySQL, Percona, or equivalent relational database platforms.
- Experience designing and operating highly available databases, including replication, failover, backup, restore, and disaster recovery validation.
- Deep SQL performance tuning experience covering execution plans, indexing, query rewriting, schema optimization, lock contention, storage, and I/O analysis.
- Strong Linux systems knowledge and experience supporting production incidents and root cause analysis.
- Experience building or 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, HPC or AI infrastructure workloads, NetBox, Percona XtraDB Cluster, ProxySQL, PostgreSQL high-availability tooling, Prometheus, Grafana, PMM, Splunk, eBPF/BCC, perf, strace, SaaS or cloud platforms, MongoDB, Oracle, SQL Server, Ansible, Terraform, CI/CD systems, zero-downtime migrations, major version upgrades, or database consolidation.
Benefits
- Stock options.
- 100% paid employee medical, dental, and vision insurance.
- Company Health Savings Account contributions.
- 100% paid short-term and long-term disability insurance for employees.
- Life, voluntary supplemental, pet, and legal insurance options.
- 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, and other in-office perks.
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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.