Senior Software Engineer - Databases
Standard Template Labs10 months ago
Base Salary
$160k - $230k/yr
Responsibilities
- Architect, evolve, and optimize multi-tenant graph data models, including node and edge schemas, relationship modeling, partitioning, and traversal strategies
- Define and implement shared, isolated, hybrid, or database-per-tenant graph storage models
- Design graph sharding, indexing, and high-throughput traversal strategies for low-latency queries at scale
- Build backend services, APIs, data-access layers, ingestion workflows, and graph mutation or query pipelines
- Optimize query performance through indexing, subgraph caching, tuned traversal patterns, and distributed graph execution
- Own tenant boundaries, access control, resource isolation, performance fairness, onboarding, migrations, provisioning, and graph lifecycle management
- Establish standards for graph modeling, relationship semantics, data governance, and workload observability
- Build performance and health visibility through metrics, dashboards, anomaly detection, and traversal cost profiling
- Mentor engineers in database fundamentals, scalable SaaS data patterns, and distributed systems
Requirements
- At least 5 years of professional software engineering experience in production SaaS environments
- Hands-on experience designing, scaling, or operating multi-tenant databases in production
- Strong understanding of graph modeling, node and edge schema design, indexing, and query or traversal optimization
- Proficiency in a modern backend language such as Go, Python, Java, or Node.js
- Solid grounding in distributed systems, partitioning, caching, and performance optimization
- Experience making architectural decisions in fast-changing, high-scale environments
- Preferred experience scaling graph-backed SaaS products for enterprise customers with large, complex topologies
- Preferred familiarity with distributed graph engines, distributed SQL, NoSQL, or horizontally scalable datastores
- Preferred experience building observability for graph workloads, including query heatmaps, traversal metrics, and cardinality analysis
- Preferred experience with major re-architecture efforts, multi-tenant transitions, or large-scale migrations
Benefits
- Competitive compensation, equity, and benefits package
- On-site work five days per week at the Flatiron District, Manhattan office
- Collaborative environment working alongside the founding team
- Office location is accessible by public transportation
About Standard Template Labs
Standard Template Labs builds an AI-native service and configuration management platform for enterprises, designed to learn how work happens and automate coordination across teams. The product uses a graph-based architecture and is offered as enterprise software for IT operations and business process owners. The company is privately held, headquartered in New York, and founded in 2025.