Staff Database Engineer - Remote, Scale & Platform

Socket.dev; United States; Remote; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Owner is a fully remote, AI-native platform powering modern local businesses, including restaurants. We’re seeking a Staff Database Engineer to drive data architecture across product workloads and scale our data platform for high-volume usage.

You will own OLTP data design, migrations, and schema decisions, collaborating with product engineers and platform teams to deliver robust, scalable data solutions. This role is remote and open to candidates in the US, Canada, Mexico, or Colombia.

Qualifications

• Hands-on experience with OLTP databases in product apps; strong Postgres knowledge.
• Ability to design schemas, index strategy, and optimize queries for high volume.
• Experience with zero-downtime migrations on large live tables.
• Proven ability to ship production code and reason about data at scale.
• Experience migrating workloads (e.g., MongoDB to Postgres) a strong plus.
• Excellent written and verbal communication; ownership mindset.
• Remote-friendly; US/Canada/Mexico/Colombia allowed.

Responsibilities

• Lead the migration of product workloads.
• Provide clear home for data storage and access for product engineers.
• Build reusable data primitives — data-sync utilities, ORM best practices, and access-pattern / schema / index review.
• Expand the product-data platform over time into caching, search, and event streaming.

Skills

OLTP design

PostgreSQL

Schema design

Query optimization

Zero-downtime migrations

Data-scale engineering

Production code

Ownership mindset

Tools

PostgreSQL

MongoDB

Redis

Terraform

AWS

GCP

Job description

Owner is a fully remote, AI-native platform powering modern local businesses, including restaurants. We’re seeking a Staff Database Engineer to drive data architecture across product workloads and scale our data platform for high-volume usage.

You will own OLTP data design, migrations, and schema decisions, collaborating with product engineers and platform teams to deliver robust, scalable data solutions. This role is remote and open to candidates in the US, Canada, Mexico, or Colombia.