Senior Database Engineer
Location: Remote
Compensation: To Be Discussed
Reviewed: Tue, Jul 14, 2026
This job expires in: 30 days
Job Summary
To support the production stability of customer applications, the full-time Senior Database Engineer will manage complex incident root cause analysis, develop observability and automation, and mentor engineers while working in a flexible or remote environment.
Key responsibilities
- Become a subject matter expert in production database troubleshooting and performance analysis
- Own complex incident root cause analysis across multi-tenant PostgreSQL/MariaDB fleets
- Develop observability and automation solutions to prevent critical issue recurrence
Required qualifications
- 5 years of related experience with a Bachelor's degree; or 3 years and a Master's degree; or a PhD without experience; or equivalent work experience
- 5+ years of experience supporting or testing large-scale web-based distributed applications
- 5+ years of experience with multiple relational databases, particularly PostgreSQL
- 5+ years of hands-on experience with SaaS, PaaS, or Cloud Infrastructure products
- Strong Unix skills, including development and administrative actions
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