Senior Backend Engineer, Database Excellence

Responsibilities

• Develop backend features and data frameworks that support safe, efficient work with data at scale across SaaS and self-managed deployments.
• Design and build data retention and lifecycle-management frameworks, including retention-policy enforcement, bulk data-removal tooling, and automated identification of tables requiring retention policies.
• Build shift-left guardrails, including static-analysis checks and schema-change-time enforcement, to prevent unsustainable data growth before production.
• Design, build, and maintain SQL traffic replay and background-operations tooling to identify scalability and performance issues.
• Improve database performance, scalability, data health, soft-delete strategies, and database migration testing.
• Review database-related changes for data integrity, safety, and performance.
• Collaborate with product management, UX, frontend, infrastructure, software delivery, and analytics teams.
• Document database best practices, anti-patterns, and data-architecture guidance.
• Participate in a Tier 2 database on-call rotation during the applicable time zone.

Requirements

• Professional software engineering experience with PostgreSQL in large, complex production environments.
• Experience with high-availability solutions, automatic failover, and zero-downtime data migrations.
• Experience managing large or rapidly growing datasets using retention, archiving, partitioning, or lifecycle-management approaches.
• Proficiency with Ruby on Rails or another Ruby framework, including backend feature design, implementation, and review.
• Ability to reason about software design, algorithms, and system-level performance trade-offs.
• Strong written communication and the ability to work asynchronously in a distributed team.
• Self-directed work style, strong organizational skills, and the ability to manage priorities independently.
• Openness to learning and applying new tools and approaches, including transferable experience from data, infrastructure, or developer-tooling domains.

Benefits

• Flexible paid time off.
• Team member resource groups.
• Equity compensation and employee stock purchase plan.
• Growth and development fund.
• Parental leave.