6 months ago
Base Salary
$140k - $240k/yr
Responsibilities
- Build a unified database observability platform providing real-time visibility into availability, security posture, reliability metrics, and latency.
- Design and implement secure MCP interfaces for AI agents to query and interact with production databases under strict access controls.
- Develop an agentic AI DBA for performance tuning, capacity planning, schema review, incident triage, and remediation.
- Create self-service workflows for product engineers to provision, configure, scale, and manage PostgreSQL and Redis instances with security and compliance guardrails.
- Establish database reliability practices covering connection pooling, query optimization, backup and restore, failover, and change management.
- Partner with engineering teams on database performance issues, schema reviews, data modeling, and access patterns.
- Participate in on-call rotations for database incidents.
Requirements
- 5+ years of professional software engineering experience with strong proficiency in backend languages such as Python, Go, Java, or Kotlin.
- Deep experience with PostgreSQL, including performance tuning, query optimization, replication, backup and recovery, schema design, and operational best practices.
- Experience with Redis, including data modeling, clustering, persistence strategies, and operational management.
- Hands-on infrastructure and cloud experience with GCP or an equivalent cloud provider, Terraform, Kubernetes, and Docker.
- Demonstrated experience building automation, tooling, or platforms that replace manual operational work.
- Strong system design skills and the ability to architect reliable, scalable infrastructure services.
- Preferred: experience with Google CloudSQL, Google Memorystore, internal developer platforms, database-as-a-service systems, or self-service infrastructure tooling.
- Preferred: experience with AI/ML technologies, LLM integration, AI-powered automation, MCP, observability tools, and monitoring or alerting systems.
- Preferred: experience in fintech, payments, or regulated industries involving data integrity, security, and compliance.
Benefits
- Seattle-based role.
- Participation in database incident on-call rotations.
- Opportunity to build AI-powered database operations, self-service platforms, and unified observability for a global payments platform.
Tech Stack
ClickHouseDatadogDockerGoGoogle Cloud PlatformGrafanaJavaKotlinKubernetesPostgreSQLPrometheusPythonRedisTerraform
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About Airwallex
Airwallex builds a global payments and financial operations platform for businesses, offering payment acceptance, multi-currency accounts, FX and transfers, card issuing, treasury and spend management via APIs and web apps. It monetizes through transaction and foreign-exchange fees and related account services. Founded in Melbourne in 2015 and privately held, the company serves customers worldwide, with notable users including Brex, Canva and Qantas.