Staff Data Platform Engineer – Remote

owner; San Francisco (CA); Hybrid; CAD 198,000 - 269,000; Full time

Job summary

Owner is seeking a Staff Database Engineer to own data storage at scale for product teams. You will decide where data lives, drive migrations, and build platform primitives used across engineering.

The role is 100% remote, with a focus on working across the product stack in a large, global organization. You will collaborate with product engineering and platform teams to scale data access patterns and performance.

Qualifications

• Hands-on experience building product-facing databases and OLTP patterns.
• Strong PostgreSQL expertise with performance tuning and migrations.
• Solid software engineering skills and ability to ship production code.

Responsibilities

• Lead migrations of product workloads and scale data infrastructure.
• Build reusable data-platform primitives for teams to use.
• Collaborate with product engineers and platform teams to evolve the data stack.
• Expand data platform to support caching, search, and event streaming.

Skills

Database systems

PostgreSQL

OLTP optimization

Schema design

Software engineering

Tools

PostgreSQL

MongoDB

Redis

Terraform

AWS

Job description

Owner is seeking a Staff Database Engineer to own data storage at scale for product teams. You will decide where data lives, drive migrations, and build platform primitives used across engineering.

The role is 100% remote, with a focus on working across the product stack in a large, global organization. You will collaborate with product engineering and platform teams to scale data access patterns and performance.