Staff Database Engineer
On-site · Las Vegas, Nevada, United States
Job Summary
Staff Database Engineer responsible for owning and advancing database architecture, reliability, and platform services across PostgreSQL, MySQL/Percona, and related systems. You’ll drive design standards for high availability, backup/restore, and performance baselining; manage lifecycle activities (provisioning, upgrades, replication topology, DR testing); lead incident response and postmortems; build and improve observability and automation; and mentor engineers while collaborating with DevOps, Infrastructure, and Platform teams to scale database-backed services. Key focus areas include Slurm and NetBox as infrastructure data platforms, production database performance tuning, capacity planning, access control, and production readiness for new services. You’ll also contribute to automation through Ansible/CI/CD integrations and establish durable engineering practices to ensure reliability and operational maturity across growing infrastructure.
Required Qualifications
- 8+ years of production database engineering, database administration, or database 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, index design, query rewrite, schema optimization
- 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 requiring direct management authority
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