Remote Senior Database Engineer - Scale & Reliability Lead

Ladders; United States; Remote; USD 120,000 - 145,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical & dental

Paid time off

401(k) matching

Dev stipend

Home office stipend

MacBook provided

Coaching services

HQ visits

Job summary

Ladders is seeking a Senior Database Engineer to own the health, performance, and reliability of production databases supporting the platform. This remote US-based role partners with application engineers to diagnose issues and guide safer changes, focusing on distributed and relational databases and proactive risk reduction.

Responsibilities include tuning, benchmarking, indexing, and documenting best practices for migrations and operations; collaboration across teams to ensure scalable, robust

Qualifications

• Strong SQL skills with deep understanding of execution plans and transaction management.
• Experience with distributed databases and their performance characteristics.
• Proficient in managing relational databases for production systems.
• Ability to diagnose database inefficiencies and implement improvements.

Responsibilities

• Investigate and resolve performance bottlenecks and reliability risks in the database environment.
• Optimize slow-running queries and improve indexing and database settings.
• Diagnose and address distributed database issues in collaboration with application engineers.
• Establish performance baselines for early visibility into workload changes.
• Guide engineering teams on database risks and trade-offs before production changes.
• Participate in design reviews to provide database schema and indexing guidance.
• Develop documentation and procedures for safer database migrations and operational practices.

Skills

SQL

Distributed DBs

Relational DBs

Performance tuning

Problem solving

Job description

Ladders is seeking a Senior Database Engineer to own the health, performance, and reliability of production databases supporting the platform. This remote US-based role partners with application engineers to diagnose issues and guide safer changes, focusing on distributed and relational databases and proactive risk reduction.

Responsibilities include tuning, benchmarking, indexing, and documenting best practices for migrations and operations; collaboration across teams to ensure scalable, robust