Staff Database Platform Engineer
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Staff Database Platform Engineer designing and evolving database platforms for Demandbase’s cloud-native applications and improving database reliability.
Responsibilities:
- Design and implement self-service database platforms that enable provisioning, scaling, and secure operations across AWS (RDS, Aurora, DynamoDB) and other cloud-native stores.
- Develop Infrastructure-as-Code solutions (Terraform, Helm, GitLab CI/CD, Kubernetes Operators) to eliminate manual database operations and improve reliability.
- Establish architectural standards and best practices for service-level databases in microservices environments (Postgres, MySQL, DynamoDB, etc.).
- Evaluate and guide database architecture decisions for analytical and ETL workloads, balancing performance, scalability, and cost across technologies (RDS/Aurora, BigQuery, Iceberg, and other cloud-native solutions).
- Build and maintain observability frameworks (Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog, OpenSearch) to ensure database health and operational excellence at scale.
- Enhance system reliability through proactive monitoring, performance tuning, automation, and documentation.
- Define and drive the technical roadmap for database platform modernization aligned with broader engineering strategy.
- Lead initiatives to reduce operational risk, cost, and complexity across legacy and monolithic database systems.
- Guide architectural transitions from shared monolithic databases to decentralized, service-owned database models.
- Partner with cross-functional stakeholders to ensure database architecture supports product scalability and business growth.
- Balance innovation with operational stability to maintain high availability for mission-critical systems.
- Collaborate with product and platform teams on schema design, query optimization, and database best practices.
- Provide tooling, documentation, and onboarding frameworks that empower engineering teams to safely manage their own databases.
- Mentor DBREs in evolving from traditional DBA practices toward platform engineering and automation-first approaches.
- Participate in incident response and postmortems, driving continuous improvement across database operations.
- Foster a culture of shift-left ownership, reliability engineering, and engineering excellence.
Requirements:
- 10+ years of experience in database reliability engineering, platform engineering, or cloud infrastructure roles
- Strong expertise in Infrastructure-as-Code and automation tools such as Terraform, Helm, GitLab CI/CD, and Kubernetes Operators
- Hands-on experience with cloud-managed relational databases (PostgreSQL/MySQL on RDS/Aurora) and cloud-native databases (DynamoDB)
- Deep knowledge of performance tuning, query optimization, indexing strategies, and schema design
- Experience modernizing and migrating legacy databases into scalable, fit-for-purpose systems in partnership with data engineering teams
- Strong Linux fundamentals and scripting experience (Python, Shell)
- Hands-on experience with observability and monitoring stacks (Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog, OpenSearch, or similar)
- Demonstrated ability to mentor DBREs/DBAs and influence engineering culture toward automation and service ownership
- Excellent communication skills and ability to collaborate effectively across product, platform, DBRE, and data teams.
Benefits:
- options for up to 100% paid Medical and Vision premiums for employees
- a flexible PTO policy
- paid holidays
- access to mental health and wellness resources
- 401(k) with pre-tax, after tax, and roth options
- short-term/long-term disability
- life insurance
- other great benefits
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