Senior Database Reliability Engineer

United States Digital Space LLC; Bogotá; Presencial; COP 174.326.000 - 331.219.000; Jornada completa

Descripción de la vacante

United States Digital Space LLC is hiring a Senior Database Reliability Engineer to design, build, and scale the company’s database platform across applications. This role blends database expertise with software and infrastructure engineering to create safe, scalable, and developer-friendly systems.

With a focus on connecting to and migrating databases, you’ll drive reliability initiatives, tooling, and standards across AWS RDS/Aurora, MySQL, and PostgreSQL environments, while mentoring

Formación

• 6+ years of professional software, SRE, or database engineering experience.
• Strong in Go, Python, or TypeScript.
• Proven ability to build production-quality internal tools.
• Deep experience with MySQL and/or PostgreSQL in high-availability environments.
• Experience with AWS RDS/Aurora and database tooling.

Responsabilidades

• Design, build, and maintain shared database platform components used by company applications.
• Establish reliable patterns for relational database connections across environments.
• Partner with backend teams to improve database usage in code (connection lifecycle, retries, pooling, migrations).
• Build automation and internal tooling for safer database operations.
• Define engineering standards for database access, migrations, and performance.
• Architect and improve database infrastructure across AWS RDS/Aurora, read replicas, backups, failover.
• Lead database reliability initiatives to reduce risk and improve performance.
• Review designs early to ensure reliability and security.
• Build guardrails for migrations with automated checks.
• Improve developer self-service for provisioning and observability.
• Investigate production issues using telemetry, metrics, logs, traces.

Conocimientos

6+ years experience

Go

Python

TypeScript

Relational databases

MySQL

PostgreSQL

AWS

RDS Proxy

PgBouncer

Herramientas

AWS RDS/Aurora

ProxySQL

PgBouncer

SQL tooling

Descripción del empleo

The salary range for this role is $5,000 - $9,500 per month (Gross in USD)About the company:

With a mission to financially empower the next generation, the company is revolutionizing the shopping experience beyond payments, blending cutting-edge tech with seamless, interest-free installment plans that make shopping smarter and more accessible. We’re not just transforming payments; we’re redefining how people discover, interact with, and purchase the things they love while driving real impact on merchant sales through increased conversions and higher order values. As we continue to shape the future of fintech and retail, we’re building an innovative, dynamic team passionate about creating more than just a transaction but a truly unique shopping journey. If you’re excited about pushing boundaries in tech and delivering a game-changing experience for consumers and merchants alike, come join us at the company and help create the future of shopping!

About the Role:

We are seeking a technically strong, hands-on Senior Database Reliability Engineer to help design, build, and scale the database platform used across the company’s applications.

This is not a traditional DBA role. This role is for an engineer who can combine deep database knowledge with software engineering, infrastructure engineering, and platform thinking. You will help build the systems, libraries, automation, standards, and guardrails that make database usage across the company reliable, secure, scalable, and easy for developers to adopt correctly.

As a Senior Database Reliability Engineer, you will be responsible for improving how the company applications connect to, migrate, operate, observe, and scale their databases. You will work across application teams, infrastructure, security, and engineering leadership to define patterns that improve database reliability by design — not just by operational response.

You should be comfortable owning problems end-to-end: understanding application behavior, reading code, reviewing database access patterns, building shared tooling, improving connection management, designing migration safety checks, analyzing production performance, and helping developers use databases in safer and more scalable ways.

You should consider yourself a DOer to be a good fit for this role. We are looking for someone who can ship production-quality engineering work, not just advise from the sidelines. With AI tooling and automation, you should be a force multiplier for database reliability, developer productivity, and operational excellence across the company.

Compensation

For this senior development role, with 6+ years of experience, the compensation range is$5,000 - $9,500 USDper month. This range acknowledges the extensive expertise, leadership capabilities, and significant contributions expected at this level, offering a competitive salary to reflect the value of advanced skills and experience.

What You’ll Do:

• Design, build, and maintain shared database platform components used by the company applications, such as database connection packages, database client libraries, migration tooling, safety checks, query standards, and developer-facing abstractions.

• Establish reliable, scalable patterns for how the company services connect to and interact with relational databases across production, staging, and development environments.

• Partner with backend engineering teams to improve database usage in application code, including connection lifecycle, transaction handling, retries, timeouts, pooling, query patterns, and migration workflows.

• Build automation and internal tooling that makes database operations safer, more repeatable, and less dependent on manual intervention.

• Define and enforce engineering standards for database access, schema design, migrations, indexing, query performance, connection management, and operational readiness.

• Architect and improve database infrastructure across AWS RDS/Aurora MySQL, PostgreSQL, RDS Proxy, read replicas, backups, failover, parameter groups, monitoring, and capacity planning.

• Lead database reliability initiatives that reduce operational risk, improve performance, and help the company scale safely.

• Review application designs and database changes early in the development lifecycle to ensure reliability, scalability, maintainability, and security are built in from the start.

• Build guardrails for database migrations, including automated checks, rollback expectations, schema review workflows, migration observability, and production safety controls.

• Improve developer self-service for database provisioning, access, schema management, local development, testing, and observability.

• Investigate production database issues by combining application telemetry, database metrics, logs, query plans, traces, and cloud infrastructure data.

• Identify and fix systemic database problems, not just symptoms — including bad access patterns, unsafe migrations, inefficient queries, connection storms, lock contention, replication lag, and capacity bottlenecks.

• Create and maintain high-signal dashboards, alerts, SLOs, SLIs, runbooks, and operational readiness checks for database-backed services.

• Drive improvements in database backup validation, restore testing, disaster recovery, failover readiness, and business continuity.

• Work with security and compliance teams to improve database access controls, auditability, encryption, secrets management, least privilege, and PCI/SOC 2 aligned controls.

• Mentor engineers on database design, query performance, safe migrations, operational readiness, and production debugging.

• Use automation and AI tooling where appropriate to improve migration review, query analysis, incident investigation, documentation, and developer productivity.

What We Look for:

• 6+ years of professional software engineering, infrastructure engineering, database engineering, SRE, or platform engineering experience.

• Strong software engineering ability in at least one production programming language such as Go, Python, or TypeScript.

• Proven ability to build production-quality internal tools, libraries, frameworks, services, or platform components used by other engineers.

• Deep hands-on experience with relational databases, especially MySQL and/or PostgreSQL, in high-availability production environments.

• Strong understanding of how application code interacts with databases, including connection pooling, transactions, isolation levels, retries, timeouts, deadlocks, locking, migrations, and query execution.

• Experience designing or improving shared database access patterns, internal database packages, ORM wrappers, migration frameworks, or developer-facing database tooling.

• Hands-on experience with AWS RDS/Aurora, including provisioning, upgrades, replicas, backups, failover, monitoring, parameter tuning, and production troubleshooting.

• Experience with database connection management technologies such as RDS Proxy, PgBouncer, ProxySQL, or application-level pooling.

• Strong ability to analyze database performance using query plans, indexes, slow query logs, wait events, locks, metrics, and application traces.

• Experience designing safe database migration processes for production systems.

• Strong understanding of observability for dat