Senior Backend Engineer - Distributed SQL & DB Ops

Remote

San Francisco (CA)

Remote

USD 173,000 - 255,000

Full time

5 days ago

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Benefits offered by this job

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Health stipend

Tech spending stipend

Dependent medical coverage

Job summary

Affim is seeking a Senior Software Engineer, Backend (Online Storage), to architect and scale relational and distributed SQL databases. You will own the control plane for MySQL/TiDB, automate provisioning, backups, upgrades, and drive reliability in a large-scale data infrastructure.

You’ll collaborate with product, design and analytics, lead initiatives, and mentor junior engineers while shaping the team’s roadmap and best practices.

Qualifications

5+ years of software engineering experience.
Experience designing, developing and launching backend systems at scale (Python, Kotlin, AWS, MySQL, Terraform, Kubernetes).
Hands-on experience with large-scale production database deployments.
Expertise in distributed databases (MySQL, TiDB, Postgres, etc.).
Experience with zero-downtime migrations and major version upgrades.

Responsibilities

Build and operate the control plane for large-scale distributed SQL databases (MySQL, TiDB).
Design reliable schema and data migrations with zero downtime.
Own networking stack connecting services to storage on Kubernetes.
Lead team quarterly goals and mentor engineers.
Collaborate with product management, design & analytics through ideation.

Skills

5+ yrs exp

Backend systems

Python

Kotlin

AWS

Kubernetes

SQL tuning

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

ProxySQL

RDS Proxy

PgBouncer

PgDog

Terraform

Kubernetes

Job description

You’ll collaborate with product, design and analytics, lead initiatives, and mentor junior engineers while shaping the team’s roadmap and best practices.

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