Remote Senior DB Engineer — Python, Cassandra, AlloyDB

PriceSenz LLC; United States; Remote; USD 140,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Comprehensive medical, dental, and vis

Paid time off

Fully remote work environment

Occasional company-paid travel

Job summary

PriceSenz LLC is hiring a Senior Software Engineer specialized in database systems to design, implement, and optimize scalable data flows powering mission-critical platforms. You will write efficient, application-level database code for data integrity, low latency, and reliability across distributed systems.

The role focuses on modernizing legacy scheduling systems, supporting production deployments, and collaborating with engineering teams to meet data requirements in a fully remote U.S.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of professional software development experience with a strong emphasis on backend systems and database engineering.
• Expert-level Python experience building high-performance backend services, asynchronous applications, and distributed systems.
• Deep understanding of database systems, including architecture, internals, tradeoffs, and performance optimization.
• Strong experience with both relational and NoSQL databases, including advanced tuning, indexing, partitioning, and query optimization.
• Production experience managing and optimizing large-scale NoSQL database clusters.
• Practical experience with AlloyDB.
• Strong understanding of concurrency control, indexing strategies, data modeling, and latency-critical distributed data processing.
• Experience with Docker or other containerized environments.
• Strong understanding of distributed systems architecture.
• Experience with C++, Go, or Rust is a strong plus.
• Excellent analytical, troubleshooting, and communication skills.
• Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision coverage; Paid time off; Fully remote work environment; Occasional company-paid travel for team collaboration.

Responsibilities

• Design, implement, and optimize software and database systems with a focus on performance, reliability, scalability, and cost efficiency.
• Develop high-performance solutions for processing large volumes of distributed data while minimizing latency and maximizing throughput.
• Write efficient application-level database code, including query optimization, indexing strategies, partitioning, and connection management.
• Design, implement, and optimize solutions using Cassandra, AlloyDB, and PostgreSQL.
• Identify and eliminate performance bottlenecks across database interactions and complex data processing workflows.
• Support production deployments and ensure the stability and reliability of database infrastructure under heavy workloads.
• Collaborate closely with engineering teams to understand data requirements and deliver scalable backend solutions.

Skills

Python

Distributed systems

Backend services

Asynchronous programming

Performance tuning

Tools

Cassandra

AlloyDB

PostgreSQL

Docker

C++

Job description

PriceSenz LLC is hiring a Senior Software Engineer specialized in database systems to design, implement, and optimize scalable data flows powering mission-critical platforms. You will write efficient, application-level database code for data integrity, low latency, and reliability across distributed systems.

The role focuses on modernizing legacy scheduling systems, supporting production deployments, and collaborating with engineering teams to meet data requirements in a fully remote U.S.