Staff Database Engineer
182k – 247kBellevue, WASeattle, WAOnsite5+ YOE
Summary
Staff Database Engineer builds and enhances Lakebase (managed Postgres for lakehouse), advises on feature designs, operational tools, security extensions, and best practices for high-performance OLTP systems. Requires 5+ years with Postgres and experience in query tuning and operations.
About the role
Responsibilities
- Advise software engineering teams on functional and non-functional feature designs for Lakebase.
- Work with product teams to validate designs satisfy customer requirements.
- Design operational tools to simplify troubleshooting.
- Build enterprise extensions for Lakebase to meet customer security and observability requirements.
- Assist field engineers with complex POCs.
- Advise customers and field engineers on best practices for application and database design to maximize performance.
Requirements
- Passion for database systems and application performance tuning.
- Experience building and operating high-volume OLTP systems including root cause analysis for incidents.
- Experience building tools to automate database management, monitoring, and operations.
- Experience with query tuning in Postgres (schema design, indexes, hints, vacuum, etc.).
- Motivated by delivering customer value and impact.
- 5+ years of experience working with Postgres and other database systems.
Skills
PostgreSQLOLTPquery tuningschema designindexesdatabase automationmonitoringobservabilityperformance tuningroot cause analysis
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