Senior Database Engineer: Scalable, Highly Available SaaS

Menlo Ventures; Oakland (CA); On-site; USD 173,000 - 251,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Annual learning and development stipend

401(k) retirement plan with company matching

Health, dental, and vision insurance

Paid parental leave

Seventeen paid vacation days

Free eDiscovery resources for social good

Flexible Spending Accounts

Job summary

A mid-sized SaaS company in Oakland, California is seeking a Senior Database Engineer. This role involves optimizing database systems to enhance performance and scalability. Candidates should have significant experience in software engineering and database management, preferably within cloud environments. You will be part of a collaborative team dedicated to innovative solutions in data infrastructure. The position is full-time and onsite three days a week, offering competitive salary and benefits.

Qualifications

• At least 5 years of experience in software engineering, with at least 3 years in database engineering.
• Deep understanding of storage engines and locking mechanisms of major RDBMS.
• Experience with managing databases in cloud environments.

Responsibilities

• Define how primary transactional databases interface with coding architecture.
• Contribute to strategies for horizontal scaling and replication.
• Analyze and optimize database performance.
• Participate in low-downtime migrations.
• Build tooling for database health monitoring.

Skills

Database optimization

Cloud environments (AWS, GCP, Azure)

Distributed systems

Education

5+ years of software engineering experience

3+ years of database engineering experience

Tools

Postgres

MySQL

Database tools for observability

Job description

A mid-sized SaaS company in Oakland, California is seeking a Senior Database Engineer. This role involves optimizing database systems to enhance performance and scalability. Candidates should have significant experience in software engineering and database management, preferably within cloud environments. You will be part of a collaborative team dedicated to innovative solutions in data infrastructure. The position is full-time and onsite three days a week, offering competitive salary and benefits.