Staff Database Platform Engineer
Demandbaseabout 1 month ago
Responsibilities
- Design and implement self-service database platforms for AWS and cloud-native stores.
- Develop Infrastructure-as-Code solutions to improve reliability and eliminate manual operations.
- Establish architectural standards for service-level databases in microservices environments.
- Evaluate database architecture decisions for analytical and ETL workloads.
- Build and maintain observability frameworks to ensure database health.
- Enhance system reliability through monitoring, performance tuning, and documentation.
- Define and drive the technical roadmap for database platform modernization.
- Lead initiatives to reduce operational risk and complexity in legacy systems.
- Guide architectural transitions to decentralized, service-owned database models.
- Collaborate with stakeholders to ensure database architecture supports scalability.
- Mentor DBREs in evolving toward platform engineering and automation-first approaches.
- Participate in incident response and drive continuous improvement.
Requirements
- 10+ years of experience in database reliability engineering or cloud infrastructure roles.
- Strong expertise in Infrastructure-as-Code and automation tools like Terraform and Kubernetes.
- Hands-on experience with cloud-managed relational databases and cloud-native databases.
- Deep knowledge of performance tuning, query optimization, and schema design.
- Experience modernizing and migrating legacy databases in partnership with data engineering teams.
- Strong Linux fundamentals and scripting experience in Python or Shell.
- Hands-on experience with observability and monitoring stacks.
- Demonstrated ability to mentor and influence engineering culture.
- Excellent communication skills for effective collaboration across teams.
Benefits
- Options for up to 100% paid Medical and Vision premiums for employees.
- Flexible PTO policy and paid holidays.
- Access to mental health and wellness resources.
- 401(k) with pre-tax, after tax, and Roth options.
- Short-term/long-term disability and life insurance.