Staff Database Engineer - AI Infra, PostgreSQL & Automation

TensorWave; Las Vegas (NV); On-site; USD 180,000 - 280,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Stock Options

Medical, Dental, Vision insurance for

HSA Contributions

Disability Insurance

Life Insurance

Pet & Legal Insurance

Flexible PTO

Paid Holidays

Parental Leave

401(k)

Employee Assistance Program

Job summary

TensorWave is hiring a Staff Database Engineer to own database architecture, reliability, and platform-level data services. You will lead integration of PostgreSQL-based platforms, Slurm accounting, and infrastructure data systems while elevating automation, testing, and DR readiness.

You will mentor engineers, partner with DevOps and Platform teams, and drive deep observability through SQL tuning, monitoring, and incident response.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of production database engineering, administration, or architecture experience
• Strong hands-on experience with PostgreSQL in production environments
• Strong hands-on experience with MySQL, Percona, or equivalent relational database platforms
• Experience designing and operating highly available database systems
• Experience with replication, failover, backup, restore, and disaster recovery validation
• Deep SQL performance tuning experience, including execution plan analysis and index design
• Strong Linux systems knowledge
• Experience supporting production incidents and performing root cause analysis
• Experience building or improving database monitoring and observability
• Ability to work across infrastructure, DevOps, platform, and application engineering teams
• Ability to define standards, influence architecture, and mentor other engineers without direct management authority
• Experience with SlurmDBD, Slurm accounting databases, or HPC/AI infrastructure database workloads
• Experience with NetBox or other infrastructure source-of-truth platforms
• Experience with Percona XtraDB Cluster, ProxySQL, or advanced MySQL/Percona architectures
• Experience with PostgreSQL HA tooling and replication architectures
• Experience with Prometheus, Grafana, PMM, Splunk, or similar observability platforms
• Experience with eBPF/BCC, perf, strace, or other low-level Linux diagnostic tooling
• Experience supporting databases for SaaS, cloud, HPC, AI infrastructure, or large multi-tenant platforms
• Experience with MongoDB, Oracle, SQL Server, or other secondary database platforms
• Experience with database automation using Ansible, Terraform, CI/CD systems, or internal tooling
• Experience with zero-downtime migrations, major version upgrades, and production database consolidation

Responsibilities

• Design and own database architecture for critical infrastructure and platform services, including PostgreSQL-backed internal platforms, Slurm accounting and operational databases, NetBox and infrastructure source-of-truth databases, and automation services
• Define standard database patterns for high availability, replication, backup and restore, point-in-time recovery, and capacity planning
• Establish database design standards for new internal platforms, including schema review and production readiness
• Operate and improve production database environments across PostgreSQL, MySQL, Percona, and adjacent systems
• Own the lifecycle of database systems: provisioning, configuration, upgrades, replication topology design, backup validation, DR testing
• Troubleshoot production database issues (latency, locks, replication lag, I/O bottlenecks)
• Drive root cause analysis and turn findings into durable engineering improvements
• Serve as senior owner for Slurm and NetBox databases, including retention, backup, and performance
• Partner with DevOps, Infrastructure MLOps, and Platform Engineering to scale database-backed systems
• Build deep observability into query performance, plans, indexing, replication health, and OS-level bottlenecks
• Create automation patterns for database provisioning, backups, health checks, and runbooks
• Contribute modules or workflows to Ansible, CI/CD, or internal automation platforms
• Define production readiness standards for new services before promotion
• Act as technical lead for major database incidents and mentor engineers

Skills

PostgreSQL in production

MySQL/Percona

SQL performance tuning

Linux systems knowledge

Root cause analysis

Observability

Automation tooling

Ansible experience

HPC/AI infra

Mentoring engineers

Tools

SlurmDBD

NetBox

Prometheus

Grafana

PMM

eBPF/BCC

Job description

TensorWave is hiring a Staff Database Engineer to own database architecture, reliability, and platform-level data services. You will lead integration of PostgreSQL-based platforms, Slurm accounting, and infrastructure data systems while elevating automation, testing, and DR readiness.

You will mentor engineers, partner with DevOps and Platform teams, and drive deep observability through SQL tuning, monitoring, and incident response.