Senior Database Engineer – Remote (US) Backend Expert

PriceSenz LLC; United States; Remote; USD 120,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, and vision coverage

Paid time off

Fully remote work environment

Occasional company-paid travel

Job summary

PriceSenz LLC is seeking a Senior Software Engineer – Database Systems for a fully remote role across the United States. The position focuses on designing, building, and optimizing scalable data flows that power mission-critical software platforms.

You will write efficient application-level database code to ensure data integrity, low latency, and high reliability in distributed systems, modernizing legacy scheduling systems and supporting production deployments during critical release phases.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of professional software development with backend and database focus.
• Expert-level Python for high-performance backend services, asynchronous apps.
• Deep knowledge of relational and NoSQL databases, with tuning and indexing.
• Experience with AlloyDB, Cassandra, and PostgreSQL.
• Experience with Docker or similar container environments.
• Strong understanding of distributed systems, concurrency, and data modeling.
• Excellent analytical, troubleshooting, and communication skills.

Responsibilities

• Design, implement, and optimize database and software systems for performance and scalability.
• Develop high-performance data processing solutions with low latency.
• Write application-level database code focusing on query optimization and partitioning.
• Design and optimize solutions using Cassandra, AlloyDB, and PostgreSQL.
• Identify and remove performance bottlenecks in data workflows.
• Support production deployments and maintain database reliability under heavy load.
• Collaborate with engineering teams to meet data requirements and deliver backend solutions.

Skills

Python

Distributed systems

Async programming

Data modeling

Troubleshooting

Communication

Tools

AlloyDB

PostgreSQL

Cassandra

Docker

Go/C++/Rust

Job description

PriceSenz LLC is seeking a Senior Software Engineer – Database Systems for a fully remote role across the United States. The position focuses on designing, building, and optimizing scalable data flows that power mission-critical software platforms.

You will write efficient application-level database code to ensure data integrity, low latency, and high reliability in distributed systems, modernizing legacy scheduling systems and supporting production deployments during critical release phases.