Staff Database Platform Engineer

Job Summary

A company is looking for a Staff Database Platform Engineer to lead the evolution of database management in the cloud.

Key Responsibilities

• Design automation and self-service frameworks for provisioning, scaling, and securing databases across AWS
• Ensure availability, performance, and security of existing large-scale monolithic databases while preparing them for migration
• Collaborate with product teams on schema design, query optimization, and provide tools for database management

Required Qualifications

• 10 years of experience in database reliability, platform engineering, or cloud infrastructure roles
• Strong experience with Infrastructure-as-Code and automation tools (Terraform, Helm, GitLab CI/CD)
• Proficiency with cloud-managed relational databases (PostgreSQL/MySQL) and cloud-native databases (DynamoDB)
• Experience in modernizing and migrating legacy databases
• Hands-on experience with observability stacks (Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog, etc.)