Senior Database Engineer
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JobgetherPayments technology
Remote employees must be based in an eligible U.S. location; New York is currently not supported.Full-TimeSenior
SalaryCompetitive salary plus equity. $1,000 annual professional development stipend. Monthly home-working and digital lifestyle stipend.
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Job Details
- Experience
- 5+ years of experience in a role where operating and optimizing production databases was a primary responsibility.
- Required Skills
- PostgreSQLSQL
Requirements
- Have 5+ years of experience in a role where operating and optimizing production databases was a primary responsibility.
- Bring deep hands-on experience managing distributed databases, including performance and high-availability behavior.
- Have hands-on experience managing relational databases supporting business-critical production systems.
- Demonstrate the ability to diagnose database inefficiencies and deliver measurable improvements across queries, indexing, schemas, or configuration.
- Have strong SQL skills and fluency with execution plans, transaction management, and distributed SQL concepts, including replication, consistency, consensus, and distributed transactions.
- Be able to evaluate database-change risks and clearly communicate technical trade-offs to engineering teams.
- Work independently to investigate unfamiliar systems, prioritize issues, and carry improvements through completion.
- Have experience operating managed database services and working with vendor support and engineering teams.
- Be able to work legally in the United States without current or future employment sponsorship.
- Be based in an eligible U.S. location; New York is currently not supported.
Responsibilities
- Investigate database performance bottlenecks and reliability risks using instrumentation, code reviews, and staging tests.
- Resolve slow queries, inefficient or missing indexes, schema issues, and database configuration challenges.
- Diagnose distributed database issues, including transaction contention, retries, hot ranges, and inefficient access patterns, with application engineers.
- Establish performance baselines and monitoring practices to identify changes in workload behavior.
- Advise engineering teams on risks and trade-offs involving schema migrations, access patterns, configuration changes, and database modifications.
- Contribute database expertise to design reviews, incident response, and root-cause analysis.
- Develop safer migration procedures, documentation, and technical guidance for evolving data models.
- Own operational practices for database upgrades, backup and recovery validation, cluster settings, capacity planning, and sizing.
- Improve database observability across latency, retries, contention, range health, and capacity.
- Mentor engineers on database troubleshooting, performance optimization, and distributed database concepts.
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