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Staff Database Platform Engineer

Platform EngineerPlatform EngineerFull TimeRemoteLeadTeam 501-1,000Since 2005H1B SponsorCompany SiteLinkedIn

Location

United States

Posted

33 days ago

Salary

0

Seniority

Lead

Job Description

Staff Database Platform Engineer

Demandbase

• Design and implement self-service database platforms that enable provisioning, scaling, and secure operations across AWS (RDS, Aurora, DynamoDB) and other cloud-native stores. • Develop Infrastructure-as-Code solutions (Terraform, Helm, GitLab CI/CD, Kubernetes Operators) to eliminate manual database operations and improve reliability. • Establish architectural standards and best practices for service-level databases in microservices environments (Postgres, MySQL, DynamoDB, etc.). • Evaluate and guide database architecture decisions for analytical and ETL workloads, balancing performance, scalability, and cost across technologies (RDS/Aurora, BigQuery, Iceberg, and other cloud-native solutions). • Build and maintain observability frameworks (Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog, OpenSearch) to ensure database health and operational excellence at scale. • Enhance system reliability through proactive monitoring, performance tuning, automation, and documentation. • Define and drive the technical roadmap for database platform modernization aligned with broader engineering strategy. • Lead initiatives to reduce operational risk, cost, and complexity across legacy and monolithic database systems. • Guide architectural transitions from shared monolithic databases to decentralized, service-owned database models. • Partner with cross-functional stakeholders to ensure database architecture supports product scalability and business growth. • Balance innovation with operational stability to maintain high availability for mission-critical systems. • Collaborate with product and platform teams on schema design, query optimization, and database best practices. • Provide tooling, documentation, and onboarding frameworks that empower engineering teams to safely manage their own databases. • Mentor DBREs in evolving from traditional DBA practices toward platform engineering and automation-first approaches. • Participate in incident response and postmortems, driving continuous improvement across database operations. • Foster a culture of shift-left ownership, reliability engineering, and engineering excellence.

Job Requirements

  • 10+ years of experience in database reliability engineering, platform engineering, or cloud infrastructure roles
  • Strong expertise in Infrastructure-as-Code and automation tools such as Terraform, Helm, GitLab CI/CD, and Kubernetes Operators
  • Hands-on experience with cloud-managed relational databases (PostgreSQL/MySQL on RDS/Aurora) and cloud-native databases (DynamoDB)
  • Deep knowledge of performance tuning, query optimization, indexing strategies, and schema design
  • Experience modernizing and migrating legacy databases into scalable, fit-for-purpose systems in partnership with data engineering teams
  • Strong Linux fundamentals and scripting experience (Python, Shell)
  • Hands-on experience with observability and monitoring stacks (Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog, OpenSearch, or similar)
  • Demonstrated ability to mentor DBREs/DBAs and influence engineering culture toward automation and service ownership
  • Excellent communication skills and ability to collaborate effectively across product, platform, DBRE, and data teams.

Benefits

  • options for up to 100% paid Medical and Vision premiums for employees
  • a flexible PTO policy
  • paid holidays
  • access to mental health and wellness resources
  • 401(k) with pre-tax, after tax, and roth options
  • short-term/long-term disability
  • life insurance
  • other great benefits

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