Staff Engineer, Data Platform & Infrastructure

HighLevel; United States; Remote; USD 180,000 - 260,000; Full time

Job summary

HighLevel is seeking a Staff Engineer - Database & Data Infrastructure to define the technical direction of our database systems across the company. You will shape architecture, establish scalable patterns and drive efficiency.

This role focuses on platform strategy and company-wide impact, not a pure DBA, with responsibilities spanning migrations, sharding, multi-region architectures and capacity planning.

Qualifications

• Significant experience as a Staff or Principal Engineer solving infrastructure or database problems across multiple teams.
• Deep understanding of database internals and distributed systems including storage, indexing, partitioning, sharding, replication, and transactions.
• Experience designing and operating production database systems with multi-terabyte or larger datasets.
• Experience leading major architectural changes, migrations, or scaling initiatives involving multiple engineering teams.

Responsibilities

• Define and evolve the long-term database and data infrastructure strategy across the company.
• Design architectures capable of supporting the next order of magnitude of growth in data volume and traffic.
• Establish architectural standards and paved roads for database selection, data modeling, partitioning, sharding, replication, and data lifecycle.
• Lead complex, cross-team initiatives such as database migrations, re-platforming, sharding, multiregion architectures, and major scalability improvements.
• Identify systemic reliability, scalability, and capacity risks before they become production problems.
• Drive database platform capabilities that make infrastructure more self-service, observable, reliable, and easier to operate for engineering teams.
• Develop strategies for capacity planning, data growth, archival, disaster recovery, and infrastructure efficiency.
• Identify opportunities to improve database infrastructure cost and performance at scale.
• Evaluate new database technologies and architectures and make pragmatic build-vs-buy decisions.
• Partner with senior engineers and leadership on architecture and long-term technical direction.
• Mentor engineers and raise the technical bar for database and distributed-systems engineering.

Skills

Staff Engineer experience

Distributed systems

Database internals

High-throughput systems

Architectural leadership

Tools

PostgreSQL

MySQL

MongoDB

Elasticsearch

Redis

Job description

HighLevel is seeking a Staff Engineer - Database & Data Infrastructure to define the technical direction of our database systems across the company. You will shape architecture, establish scalable patterns and drive efficiency.

This role focuses on platform strategy and company-wide impact, not a pure DBA, with responsibilities spanning migrations, sharding, multi-region architectures and capacity planning.