Remote Senior Data Store Engineer — Scale & Reliability

Persona; Buffalo (NY); Remote; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, and vision

3% 401(k) contribution

Unlimited PTO

Mental health days

Professional development stipend

Wellness benefits

Family planning benefits

Job summary

Persona, a configurable identity platform, is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to join our Online Data Stores team. You’ll help build and evolve data storage solutions powering our application stack from anywhere in the US or Canada.

This role emphasizes scalability, reliability, and performance, and offers a remote setup with a cross-functional engineering team. You will work on challenging problems at scale, collaborate with multiple engineering groups, and contribute to best practices and

Qualifications

• BA/BS in computer science, software engineering or equivalent experience
• 5+ years of software engineering experience with a focus on large-scale, distributed data systems
• Strong technical expertise in designing and operating scalable data storage solutions
• Experience with cloud-native architectures and technologies, particularly Google Cloud
• Deep understanding of data consistency, replication, partitioning, and high availability strategies
• Experience with infrastructure-as-code and container orchestration systems like Kubernetes
• Software development experience in Ruby, Go, Python, Java with a preference for Ruby on Rails
• Strong problem-solving skills and ability to navigate ambiguity in a fast-paced environment
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills, with a focus on cross-functional teamwork
• Knowledge of software engineering best practices for SDLC including requirements gathering, design, coding standards, reviews, and operations

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and maintain high-performance, scalable data stores used across our application stack.
• Collaborate with infrastructure, platform, and application teams to optimize data storage for performance, reliability, and cost.
• Implement and advocate for best practices for data modeling, access patterns, monitoring, and incident response.
• Contribute to automation, observability, and proactive capacity planning to ensure operational excellence.
• Participate in code reviews, contribute to architectural discussions, and mentor junior engineers.
• Partner with other engineering teams to deliver on complex initiatives together.
• Develop simple, elegant solutions to complex problems.
• Embrace and champion engineering best practices within the product engineering teams.
• Work closely with product teams to plan and build scalable, resilient and cost-effective infrastructure systems.
• Directly shape system design, development methodologies, and implementation technologies

Skills

Distributed systems

Problem solving

Cross-functional collaboration

Communication

Ambiguity navigation

Education

BA/BS in Computer Science or equivalent

Tools

MySQL

MongoDB

Elasticsearch

Redis

Kubernetes

Go

Ruby on Rails

Python

Google Cloud

Job description

Persona, a configurable identity platform, is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to join our Online Data Stores team. You’ll help build and evolve data storage solutions powering our application stack from anywhere in the US or Canada.

This role emphasizes scalability, reliability, and performance, and offers a remote setup with a cross-functional engineering team. You will work on challenging problems at scale, collaborate with multiple engineering groups, and contribute to best practices and