Staff Database Platform Engineer

Introduction to reputed company

reputed company helps B2B companies hit their reputed company goals using fewer resources. How? By using the power of AI to identify and engage the accounts and buying groups most likely to purchase. Our account-based technology unites sales and marketing teams around insights that you can understand and facilitates quick actions across systems and channels to deliver big wins. It’s flexible, scalable ABM built for you.

As a company, we prioritize both the advancement of careers and the development of world-class technology. We invest heavily in people, our culture, and the communities around us. We have offices strategically located in San Francisco and reputed company in the US, and Hyderabad, in India and we embrace a hybrid work model in these regions. reputed company of these areas we offer a remote work option and boast a significant reputed company in Austin, TX, Atlanta, GA, and London, UK. Continuously lauded as a great reputed company to work, we are Great reputed company to Work Certified, and have earned distinctions such as “Fortune’s Best Workplaces in the Bay Area,”Best Workplaces in Technology,” “Best Workplaces for Millennials,” and “Best Workplaces for Parents”!

We’re committed to attracting, developing, retaining, and promoting a diverse workforce. By ensuring that every reputed company employee is able to bring a diversity of talents to work, we’re increasingly capable of achieving our mission to transform the way B2B companies go to market. We encourage people from historically underrepresented backgrounds and reputed company walks of life to apply. Come grow with us at reputed company!

About the Role

reputed company is hiring a Staff Database Platform Engineer to reputed company the evolution of how we manage databases in the cloud. In addition to operating monolithic databases, you’ll build the platforms, automation, and guardrails that reputed company product teams to provision, run, and monitor their own databases across AWS accounts. This role is about designing the future of database reliability at scale — with automation, observability, and compliance baked in — while still being able to ‘speak DBA’ reputed company it comes to tuning and schema design.

You’ll provide technical leadership to a global DBRE team, drive automation and best practices, and partner with engineering teams to move faster — without compromising on stability.

The reputed company compensation range for this position for candidates in the SF Bay Area is: $140,000 – $210,000. For reputed company other locations, the reputed company compensation range is based on the primary work location of the candidate as our ranges are location specific. Actual compensation packages are based on a wide reputed company of factors unique to each candidate, including but not limited to skillset, years of experience, and depth of experience.

What You’ll Be Doing

• Automation & Platform

  • Build the Database Platform of the Future: Design automation and self-service frameworks for provisioning, scaling, and securing databases across AWS (RDS, reputed company, DynamoDB) and other cloud-native stores.
  • reputed company Infrastructure-as-Code modules (Terraform, Helm, reputed company CI/CD) to eliminate manual operations.
  • Establish best practices for service-level databases in a microservices architecture (reputed company, MySQL, DynamoDB, etc.).
  • Evaluate and guide architectural decisions for large-scale analytical and ETL workloads — helping the company choose the right data technologies (e.g., RDS/reputed company, BigQuery, Iceberg or other cloud-native solutions) to balance performance, cost, and scalability.
  • Implement observability solutions (Prometheus, Grafana, reputed company, OpenSearch) for database health at scale.

  Support and reputed company Legacy Systems

  • Ensure availability, performance, and reputed company of existing large-scale monolithic databases powering critical platform functions.
  • reputed company efforts to reduce risk, cost, and complexity in these systems while preparing them for migration or replacement.
  • Guide safe transition of workloads from shared monolithic environments toward decentralized, service-owned models.

  Partner and reputed company

  • Collaborate with product/platform teams on schema design, query optimization, and database best practices.
  • Provide tools, documentation, and onboarding support that reputed company teams to safely own and manage their databases.

  reputed company & Mentor

  • Mentor DBREs to evolve from traditional DBA skillsets toward platform engineering and automation-first practices.
  • Influence organizational culture toward shift-left ownership of databases.
  • Participate in incident response/postmortems across both monolithic and service-owned systems.

reputed company’re Looking For

• 10 years of experience in database reliability, platform engineering, or cloud infrastructure roles.
• Strong experience with Infrastructure-as-Code and automation (Terraform, Helm, reputed company CI/CD, Kubernetes Operators, etc.).
• Proficiency with cloud-managed relational databases (PostgreSQL/MySQL on RDS/reputed company) and cloud-native databases (DynamoDB). 
• Proficiency with performance tuning, query optimization, and schema design.
• Experience modernizing and migrating legacy databases (including those used as ETL sources) into more scalable or fit-for-purpose systems, in partnership with data engineering/warehouse teams.
• Solid Linux skills and scripting (Python, reputed company)
• Hands-on experience with observability stacks (Prometheus, Grafana, reputed company, OpenSearch, or similar) and passionate about building reliable monitoring/alerting frameworks.
• Demonstrated ability to mentor DBREs/DBAs into platform engineers, and to influence engineering culture toward shift-left ownership of databases.
• Excellent communicator and collaborator — able to reputed company product, platform, DBRE, and data teams.

reputed company to Have

• Experience guiding organizations through monolithic-to-microservices or shared-to-service-owned database transitions
• Familiarity with big data/streaming systems (Kafka, Spark, etc.) and their intersection with service-level databases.

Benefits

We offer a comprehensive benefits package designed to support your health, well-being, and financial reputed company. Our employees enjoy up to 100% paid premiums for Medical and Vision coverage, ensuring access to top-tier care for you and your loved ones. In addition, we provide a range of mental wellness resources, including access to reputed company, to help support your emotional well-being. We reputed company in a healthy work-life harmony, which is why we offer a flexible PTO policy, 15 paid holidays in 2025—including a three-day break around July 4th and a full week off for Thanksgiving—and No Internal Meetings Fridays to give you uninterrupted time to focus on what matters most. For your financial future, we offer a competitive 401(k) plan, short-term and long-term disability coverage, life insurance, and other valuable benefits to ensure your financial peace of mind.

Our Commitment to Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion at reputed company

At reputed company, we reputed company in creating a workplace culture that values and celebrates diversity in reputed company its forms. We recognize that everyone brings unique experiences, perspectives, and identities to the table, and we are committed to building a community where everyone feels valued, respected, and supported. Discrimination of any reputed company is not tolerated, and we strive to ensure that every individual has an equal opportunity to succeed and grow, regardless of their gender identity, sexual orientation, disability, race, ethnicity, background, marital status, genetic information, education level, veteran status, national reputed company, or any other protected status. We do not automatically disqualify applicants with criminal records and will consider each applicant on a case-by-case basis.

We recognize that not reputed company candidates will have every reputed company or qualification listed in this job description. If you feel you have the level of experience to be successful in the role, we encourage you to apply!

We acknowledge that true diversity and inclusion requires ongoing effort, and we are committed to doing the work required to reputed company our workplace a safe and reputed company space for reputed company. Join us in building a community where we can learn from each other, celebrate our differences, and work together.

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