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Staff Platform Database Engineer in USA new

  • Chainguard
  • Full time
  • Email
  • Remote

Responsibilities

  • Define the company-wide strategy and standards for database deployment, management, scaling, and operations.
  • Inventory and assess database systems, identify risks, and create a roadmap for improving resiliency and reducing operational risk.
  • Design and implement replication, high availability, backups, disaster recovery, migrations, capacity planning, and globally distributed database operations.
  • Build production-grade database tooling, governance models, automation, and guardrails.
  • Write production code supporting database deployment, management, and reliability.
  • Design systems that account for global availability, latency, EU data residency, and data sovereignty requirements.
  • Lead company-wide database infrastructure initiatives, author technical design documents, and establish scalable engineering standards.
  • Partner with Dev Platform, SRE, Customer Engineering, and engineering teams to drive consistent database practices and architecture adoption.

Requirements

  • 8+ years of experience building and operating production database and platform infrastructure in modern cloud environments.
  • Significant software, infrastructure, or platform engineering experience focused on database systems.
  • Staff-level experience leading complex technical initiatives and influencing architecture across multiple engineering teams.
  • Deep experience designing, building, and operating production database infrastructure.
  • Strong PostgreSQL and MySQL experience.
  • Hands-on experience with replication, high availability, backups and recovery, database migrations, capacity planning, and distributed databases across geographies.
  • Experience operating highly available production database systems at scale.
  • Experience designing and operating cloud database infrastructure with AWS and Google Cloud.
  • Strong server-side Linux experience and proficiency programming in Go.
  • Experience writing production code and building infrastructure tooling.
  • Ability to evaluate systems, identify risk, and translate findings into an architecture and implementation roadmap.
  • Strong communication and cross-functional leadership skills.
  • Experience applying AI or automation to database operations and infrastructure workflows.
  • Preferred experience with database internals, Terraform or other infrastructure-as-code tools, stateful systems on Kubernetes, internal database platforms, governance, automated policy enforcement, and developer enablement.

Benefits

  • Remote-first work culture with team meetups, bi-annual destination summits, and a monthly coworking, phone, and internet stipend.
  • Stock options upon hire and promotion, participation in secondary offerings, and 10 years to exercise options.
  • 100% company-paid health, vision, and dental insurance premiums for employees and dependents.
  • Flexible time off.
  • 18 weeks of paid parental leave for birthing parents and 12 weeks for non-birthing parents.

Salary: $205k - $231k/yr

Chainguard

Chainguard is the trusted source for open source. By delivering hardened, secure, and production-ready builds of all the open source software engineers and AI agents rely on, Chainguard helps organizations build faster, stay compliant, and eliminate risk. Its customers include Fortune 500 enterpr...

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