Staff Database Engineer II - Poland

housecall; Poland; On-site; PLN 391,000 - 490,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Paid holidays

$500 workspace stipend

CET hours for Poland team

Job summary

Housecall Pro is seeking a Staff Database Engineer I to join the Site Reliability Engineering team. You will enhance database performance, reliability, security, and scalability across production systems, guiding schema design, queries, migrations, and integrations.

You will apply deep DB expertise to complex challenges, influence architecture, participate in design reviews, and drive best practices for observability, disaster recovery, and data protection.

Qualifications

• 5+ years designing, implementing, and managing relational DBs in complex production environments.
• Hands-on with MySQL and PostgreSQL, performance tuning and security.
• Experience with backups, high availability, replication, partitioning, and scaling strategies.
• Familiarity with IaC tools (Terraform, CloudFormation, Pulumi) for infrastructure management.
• Ability to explain database concepts to varied audiences and document designs clearly.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and maintain secure, reliable, and scalable database schemas and storage systems.
• Optimize MySQL and PostgreSQL for performance, security, and resource use.
• Develop and implement scaling strategies including replication, partitioning, and sharding.
• Collaborate with engineering teams on schema designs, queries, migrations, and integrations.
• Monitor, troubleshoot, and resolve production DB issues to ensure availability and integrity.
• Contribute to architecture reviews and promote database observability and best practices.

Skills

Relational databases

Query optimization

Table design

Data modeling

SRE/DevOps mindset

Communication skills

Problem solving

Observability

Tools

Terraform

CloudFormation

Pulumi

MySQL

PostgreSQL

Job description

Why Housecall Pro?

Help us build solutions that build better lives. At Housecall Pro, we show up to work everyday to make a difference for real people: the home service professionals that support America's 100 million homes. We're all about the Pro, and dedicate our days to helping them streamline operations, scale their businesses, and-ultimately-save time so they can be with their families and live well.

While our headquarters are based in Denver, Colorado, our team spans the globe, with teammates across Brazil, Poland, the Philippines, Mexico, and beyond. We care deeply about our customers and foster a culture where our company, people and Pros grow and succeed together-no matter where they're based. Leadership is as focused on growing team members' careers as they expect their teams to be on creating solutions for Pros.

We also offer:

• Paid holidays and flexible, take-it-as-you-need-it scheduled time off
• A culture built on innovation that values big ideas, no matter where they come from
• A MacBook set up and ready from day one, plus a $500 stipend to design your ideal workspace
• Central European Time (CET) hours to support a balanced schedule for our Poland-based team
• Equity in a rapidly growing startup backed by top-tier VCs

About the role

As a Staff Database Engineer I within our Site Reliability Engineering team, you improve the performance, reliability, security, and scalability of our database systems. You design and maintain resilient data solutions, optimize database usage patterns, and help engineering teams make sound decisions about schema design, queries, migrations, and integrations.

You apply deep database expertise to complex production challenges and contribute to system design, cloud architecture, continuous delivery, and business continuity practices. You identify risks, resolve recurring issues, and develop solutions that improve long-term maintainability. You provide thoughtful technical guidance, contribute to design reviews, and help engineers adopt effective database practices.

Our team is passionate, empathetic, hard working, and above all else focused on improving the lives of our service professionals (our Pros). Our success is their success.

Compensation: 9 400 - 11 800 USD per month (B2B)

What you do each day:

• Design, build, and maintain secure, reliable, and scalable database schemas and storage systems
• Optimize MySQL and PostgreSQL databases for performance, stability, security, and efficient resource use
• Develop and implement database scaling strategies, including replication, partitioning, and sharding
• Partner with engineering teams to improve schema designs, queries, data migrations, and application integrations
• Monitor and troubleshoot production databases, resolving issues that affect availability, performance, or data integrity
• Analyze database incidents, identify root causes, and implement corrective and preventative solutions
• Contribute database expertise to architecture and design reviews for new systems and enhancements
• Support cross-functional initiatives involving disaster recovery, data classification, software upgrades, ETL, security, and compliance
• Establish and promote effective practices for database observability, high availability, backup, recovery, and maintainability
• Evaluate emerging database technologies and practices that may improve the scalability, reliability, or efficiency of our systems

Qualifications:

• 5+ years of experience designing, implementing, and managing relational database systems in complex production environments
• Experience in database engineering, DevOps, software engineering, site reliability engineering, or a related technical field
• Deep knowledge of database architecture, data modeling, indexing, transactions, constraints, and query optimization
• Hands‑on experience optimizing and supporting MySQL, PostgreSQL, or comparable relational database technologies
• Experience with database backup and recovery, high availability, replication, partitioning and scaling strategies
• Knowledgeofdatabasesecuritypractices, access controls, data protection, and compliance requirements
• Experience diagnosing production database issues, and developing durable solutions that reduce recurring risk
• Familiarity with infrastructure-as-code tools such as Terraform, CloudFormation, or Pulumi
• Strong communication skills with the ability to explain database concepts and technical trade-offs to varied audiences
• Strong problem-solving skills and a commitment to building high-quality, maintainable systems

What will help you succeed:

• Strong systems thinking and the ability to balance immediate operational needs with long-term reliability and scalability
• Sound technical judgment when evaluating database architecture, indexing, storage, and performance trade-offs
• The ability to create clarity when restrictions, constraints, or paths forward are ambiguous
• A collaborative approach to guiding engineers and improving database pr