Senior Database Engineer

About the role

A senior database administrator role with full responsibility for production databases, keeping them dependable, performant and able to scale with company growth.

What you will do

• Monitor database health, respond to incidents and prepare recovery procedures
• Tune queries, indexes, schemas and resource usage for performance
• Plan and carry out migrations, backfills and data corrections safely
• Keep data consistent across primary databases, replicas and analytics pipelines
• Verify backups, test restores and strengthen security and access controls
• Collaborate with engineers on schema design and automate routine operations

What they look for

• Considerable hands-on experience running production databases
• Knowledge of distributed databases, replication and mixed transactional and analytical workloads
• Track record of handling incidents and deploying database changes safely
• Strong ownership, close attention to detail and clear communication
• Able to read application code and build operational tooling

Nice to have

• Hands-on experience with the company's specific database platforms
• Experience leading a team or mentoring engineers