Staff Datastore Architect — Remote in Canada

Nue.io

Toronto

Hybrid

CAD 195,000 - 259,000

Full time

10 days ago

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Job summary

Nue.io is seeking a Staff Engineer, Datastores to lead the data layer responsible for PostgreSQL, ClickHouse, caching, and streaming. You will own the end-to-end reliability, performance, and cost, guiding where workloads reside and how to scale to meet 10x growth, while remaining hands-on with the hardest problems.

You will drive migration to fully managed databases (Aurora/NeonDB), design analytics architecture, and establish standards for product teams.

Qualifications

10+ years in backend, infrastructure, or data platform engineering.
5+ years owning production databases at scale in SaaS environments.
Experience with multi-tenant database architectures and migrations.

Responsibilities

Set datastore strategy and multi-year roadmap for data layer across PostgreSQL, ClickHouse, caching, and streaming.
Own reliability, availability, performance, and cost of all production datastores; define SLOs and operational standards.
Lead scale-out architecture for multi-tenant data layer to support 10x growth.
Define migration strategy to fully managed PostgreSQL with zero data loss and minimal downtime.
Lead ClickHouse analytics layer, ingestion pipelines, and schema design for analytics workloads.
Guide product teams on datastore choices per workload and prevent sprawl with clear patterns.
Build monitoring, alerting, load testing, and capacity models to catch issues early.
Architect replication, failover, backup/DR, and RPO/RTO targets with drills.
Enable zero-downtime schema migrations and CI/CD tooling for data stores.
Mentor engineers and shape datastore engineering growth and operating model.