Staff DevOps Engineer II (Database Operations)

Quick Facts

• Role: Staff DevOps Engineer II (Database Operations)

Description

Own production observability, monitoring, and alerting for database clusters and replication topologies, and continuously improve reliability, efficiency, and disaster recovery for core data systems. Design scalable database schemas and storage architectures, optimize database engine configurations, and lead preventative engineering for scaling bottlenecks. Automate infrastructure and deployment pipelines using Infrastructure as Code and scripting, and partner with engineering teams on migrations, schema reviews, and query optimization.

Responsibilities

• Own observability, monitoring, and alerting for production database clusters and replication topologies

• Optimize database engine configurations for performance, stability, compliance, and security

• Design scalable database schemas and storage architectures for high-growth workloads

• Implement data scaling strategies including sharding, partitioning, and high-availability clustering

• Triage critical production database incidents and implement long-term preventative solutions

• Lead disaster recovery testing, data classification, and major engine upgrade initiatives

• Build cloud infrastructure using Infrastructure as Code to automate deployment pipelines and environments

• Collaborate on complex migrations, schema reviews, and query optimization

• Participate in architecture reviews with authoritative database engineering expertise

• Automate operational tasks and third-party API integrations using scripting languages

Requirements

• 5+ years of hands-on production experience designing, implementing, and operating relational databases

• 3+ years in DevOps, SRE, or software engineering

• Production expertise with relational databases (MySQL, PostgreSQL) including backups, replication topologies, indexing, and partitioning

• Advanced knowledge of database architecture, data modeling, query optimization, and high-availability/backup & recovery

• Extensive Infrastructure as Code experience (Terraform, CloudFormation, Pulumi, CDK) in public cloud (AWS)

• Proficiency in programming languages for automation (Python, Golang)

• Operational familiarity with Linux, Docker, and container orchestrators (Kubernetes, ECS)

• Experience with CI/CD pipelines (GitLab, TravisCI, CircleCI, Jenkins)

• Experience deploying monitoring and observability platforms (Datadog, New Relic)

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science/IT or equivalent experience

Benefits

• Paid holidays and flexible scheduled time off

• Innovation-focused culture

• MacBook setup plus a $500 workspace stipend

• Central European Time (CET) hours to support a balanced schedule

• Equity in a rapidly growing startup