Senior Database Engineer - High-Availability OLTP & Streaming

Digital Media Solutions; United States; On-site; USD 140,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Digital Media Solutions is seeking a Software Engineer III (Database Engineer) to own the reliability, performance, and scalability of our production database systems in high-availability OLTP environments.

You’ll work across MySQL, PostgreSQL, and DynamoDB, supporting replication strategies, ELT/ETL pipelines, and streaming integrations. Collaborate with backend, data, and infrastructure teams to protect transactional systems while enabling scalable data movement.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of database engineering in production environments.
• Hands-on with MySQL and/or PostgreSQL.
• Experience with high-availability OLTP systems.
• Knowledge of binlog or logical replication.
• Experience integrating OLTP with Kafka streaming.
• Experience with ELT/ETL pipelines and data workflows.
• Understanding ACID principles and isolation levels.
• Familiar with AWS managed databases (RDS, Aurora, DynamoDB).

Responsibilities

• Operate and optimize production database systems including MySQL, PostgreSQL, DynamoDB, and Elastic.
• Design and manage binlog and logical replication strategies.
• Support ELT/ETL pipelines and CDC workflows for safe data movement.
• Integrate transactional systems with Kafka-based streaming architectures.
• Optimize database performance through query tuning, indexing, and scaling.
• Manage backups, failover processes, and disaster recovery (PITR).
• Monitor system health and drive infrastructure cost efficiency.
• Enforce data integrity, security, and compliance standards.
• Lead and support database-related incident response.

Skills

High-availability OLTP

Performance tuning

Data integrity

Kafka integration

Tools

MySQL

PostgreSQL

DynamoDB

Elastic

Kafka

RDS/Aurora

Job description

Digital Media Solutions is seeking a Software Engineer III (Database Engineer) to own the reliability, performance, and scalability of our production database systems in high-availability OLTP environments.

You’ll work across MySQL, PostgreSQL, and DynamoDB, supporting replication strategies, ELT/ETL pipelines, and streaming integrations. Collaborate with backend, data, and infrastructure teams to protect transactional systems while enabling scalable data movement.