Senior Database Engineer I

In this role you will design, build, and operate a scalable, secure internal database platform that serves hundreds of engineers across environments. You will help define standards, guardrails, and automation to enable product teams to move fast without compromising reliability or security. You’ll lead initiatives end-to-end, collaborate with Platform and Data teams, and own the availability and safety of critical systems. This is a chance to shape a global data platform that directly impacts customer data availability and performance. You’ll join a collaborative, excellence-driven culture that values learning and continuous improvement.

• RSUs
• Wise Benefits
• Hybrid work
• Competitive salary

• Design, build, and evolve the internal cloud-based database platform
• Lead end-to-end initiatives with measurable delivery outcomes
• Define long-term automation strategy including migrations, upgrades, and failure recovery
• Embed security and compliance controls into platform components
• Be accountable for availability, reliability, and security of owned systems
• Collaborate with product teams, SREs and DBAs to apply platform guardrails
• Act as escalation point for incident resolution and post-incident reviews
• Mentor engineers, support onboarding, reduce single points of failure
• Participate in on-call rotations and provide senior escalation support
• Represent the team in cross-tribe or cross-company efforts and guilds
• Participate in interviewing and hiring to maintain engineering bar

• Significant Platform Engineering experience with ownership of production platforms at scale
• Experience with cloud infrastructure (AWS or GCP)
• Strong Python development skills (or similar)
• Solid understanding of software engineering principles (secure, testable, maintainable code)
• Proficiency with Cloud APIs and DevOps tooling (Terraform, Ansible, CI/CD, Teleport)
• Clear communicator who collaborates across teams
• Ability to articulate trade-offs, business impact, and customer value
• Experience leading or contributing to incident response and post-incident improvement

• Collaborative mindset
• Strong communication
• Strategic thinking
• Distributed databases at scale (YugabyteDB preferred, or CockroachDB/TiDB/Cloud Spanner)
• Operational expertise with distributed SQL systems in production
• Migration automation patterns (CDC/logical replication, verification and rollback)