Engineering Manager - Database (Hybrid remote)

Auctane; Zielona Góra; Remote; PLN 100,000 - 140,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Annual Salary Review

99% discount on personal shipments

Volunteer day

Referral bonus

Employee Assistance Program

Flexible work schedule

Training budgets

Job summary

Auctane is looking for an Engineering Manager - Database who will manage a team in a hybrid remote setting. This position requires extensive experience in database management and team leadership. You will be responsible for mentoring your team, ensuring performance improvement, and maintaining high-quality standards.

Join a dynamic and diverse team at Auctane, where you will have a significant impact on database operations across brands.

Qualifications

• Extensive experience in leading and mentoring technical teams.
• Proven track record in daily database management tasks.
• Skilled in translating database designs into actionable tasks.

Responsibilities

• Manage a multi-member database team effectively.
• Ensure quality processes and performance improvement.
• Mentor less experienced database administrators.

Skills

Team Leadership

Database Management

Incident Management

Agile Methodologies

Cloud Infrastructure

Tools

MS SQL Server

AWS

Terraform

PowerShell

C# .NET

Job description

Engineering Manager - Database (Hybrid remote)

About us

At Auctane, we are united by a passion to help businesses deliver — whatever their size, wherever they are, and however they operate. We make it possible for businesses to meet the ever-changing requirements of their industry and customer expectations. Auctane products enable hundreds of thousands of businesses to annually mail and ship billions of items — over $200 billion worth — to recipients around the globe.

The Auctane family of mailing and shipping software products includes ShipStation, Stamps.com, ShipStation API, Metapack, GlobalPost, and Packlink. Our partners include Amazon, UPS, USPS, eBay, BigCommerce, Shopify, WooCommerce, and Walmart.

Our values

Win as One. Delight Customers. Deliver Great Outcomes.

About the role

As a Database Engineering Manager, you will have an impact on your team's operations. You will continuously enhance tools and processes for people management while collaborating with others to define new workflows and implement improvements.

What will you be doing?

• Managing a multi-member team.
• Consistently delivering products in line with established action plans.
• Active involvement in day-to-day database administration tasks.
• Upholding the quality of processes, projects, and systems agreed upon by the team.
• Continuously improving both personal and team performance by suggesting and helping implement new processes and engineering best practices.
• Effectively communicating progress, achievements, and areas for improvement to team members and management.
• Serving as a trusted technical advisor in one or more areas, providing guidance and advice to the team.
• Mentoring less experienced database administrators.
• Collaborating with internal and external stakeholders to define the team’s action plans and manage competing priorities.
• Monitoring team engagement and well-being indicators.
• Proactively identifying and resolving potential performance challenges within the team.
• Supporting the development and career growth of team members.
• Participating in recruitment processes.
• Advocating for business and technical decisions made by the company within the team.

What are we looking for?

• As an impactful people leader and operational manager, you will become the primary point of contact for day-to-day database operations and delivery for your assigned brands.
• Extensive experience in leading, mentoring, and scaling technical teams, with an unwavering focus on nurturing talent and fostering a healthy engineering culture.
• Proven track record of executing daily database management tasks, managing team capacity, and effectively balancing operational support with project delivery.
• Experienced in collaborating with database principals or enterprise architects to successfully implement global security policies, compliance requirements, and engineering standards within your team.
• A structured approach to incident management, query performance tracking, and proactive database maintenance is embedded in your professional DNA to ensure high availability for your brands.
• Skilled in translating high-level architecture and database designs into actionable tasks, sprints, and clear deliverables for your database engineers.
• Experienced in managing database infrastructure within cloud or hybrid environments, ensuring cost-efficiency and operational stability for specific brand workloads.
• You believe that neglecting regular team feedback, clear KPIs, and career development paths is a missed opportunity to build a high-performing database engineering team.
• Passionate about full team ownership of your assigned data layer, encompassing the entire operational lifecycle, documentation, and managing the team’s after-hours support rotation.
• Embracing new management frameworks, agile methodologies, or operational automation tools is an opportunity you eagerly pursue to remove blockers for your team.
• Skilled at balancing the demands of critical, immediate operational fixes while keeping the team aligned on long-term product roadmaps and tight deadlines.
• Your actions consistently demonstrate that close collaboration with cross-functional brand teams and product owners is the best path to delivering outstanding, data-driven products.

The tech stack

• MS SQL Server 2017 and newer
• T-SQL
• Amazon Web Services
• Terraform
• PowerShell
• C# .NET

What do we offer?

• Annual Salary Review: we review the salaries of all our teams annually in order to evaluate an increase according to individual performance and the business results.
• 99% discount on your personal shipment orders via Packlink.pro
• Up to 500PLN per year to match your NGO donations.
• Volunteer day: you can take 1 day off per year to participate in volunteering activities.
• Referral Fee: we offer a referral bonus of 4-20k, depending on the complexity of the role and the hiring process.
• Employee Assistance Program: with psychological assistance free of charge.
• Great work-life balance, flexible work schedule and accommodation of personal situations.
• Inclusive and upbeat work environment, inclusive culture promoting diversity and inclusion.
• Cross-cultural atmosphere: truly international team of 20 nationalities who speak 10 languages; company language is English and all internal communication and company-wide meetings are in English.
• Company events and team-building activities.
• Internal and external training, free access to online training platforms such as LinkedIn Learning.
• Possibility to work in a home office using equipment provided by AUCTANE, or in an office prepared in accordance with all safety requirements.
• Personal training budget up to 7000 PLN per year for certifications, conferences, and professional development.
• Up to 30 days of vacation per year (additional days granted with seniority at AUCTANE).
• Languages classes every week—free English, Spanish, German classes.
• Co-financing for sports and recreational activities.
• Nice office locations in Zielona Gora and Wroclaw with free drinks and snacks.