Senior Database Engineer, Reliability & Scale

Housecall Pro; Poland; On-site; PLN 397,000 - 499,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Paid holidays

MacBook + $500 workspace stipend

Central European Time hours for Poland

Equity in startup

Job summary

Housecall Pro in Poland is seeking a Staff Database Engineer I to join our Site Reliability Engineering team. You will design and maintain scalable database systems, optimize MySQL and PostgreSQL, and partner with engineers on schema design, migrations, and integrations.

You will drive reliability, security, and performance across production databases, implement replication and sharding, and contribute to architecture reviews.

Qualifications

• 5+ years designing and managing relational database systems in production.
• Experience in database architecture, indexing, transactions, and query optimization.
• Strong collaboration with teams on schema designs and migrations.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and maintain secure, scalable database schemas.
• Optimize MySQL and PostgreSQL for performance and security.
• Develop scaling strategies including replication and partitioning.
• Collaborate with engineering on schema design, migrations, and integrations.
• Monitor production databases and resolve availability issues.
• Contribute to architecture reviews and disaster recovery planning.
• Promote database observability and high availability practices.
• Evaluate new database technologies for scalability and efficiency.

Skills

Relational database design

MySQL & PostgreSQL

Query optimization

Data modeling

Site Reliability Engineering

DevOps collaboration

Tools

Terraform

CloudFormation

Pulumi

Job description

Housecall Pro in Poland is seeking a Staff Database Engineer I to join our Site Reliability Engineering team. You will design and maintain scalable database systems, optimize MySQL and PostgreSQL, and partner with engineers on schema design, migrations, and integrations.

You will drive reliability, security, and performance across production databases, implement replication and sharding, and contribute to architecture reviews.