Staff Engineer - Platform (Database & Data Infrastructure)

📋 Description

• Define and evolve the long-term database and data infrastructure strategy across the company.
• Design architectures capable of supporting the next order of magnitude of growth in data volume and
• Establish architectural standards and paved roads for database selection, data modeling
• Lead complex, cross-team initiatives such as database migrations, re-platforming, sharding
• Identify systemic reliability, scalability, and capacity risks before they become critical
• Drive database platform capabilities that make infrastructure more self-service, observable

🎯 Requirements

• Significant experience as a Staff Engineer, Principal Engineer, or equivalent senior individual
• Deep understanding of database internals and distributed systems, including storage, indexing
• Experience designing and operating production database systems with multi-terabyte or larger
• Experience with high-throughput systems handling 30K–50K+ operations per second, preferably at
• Strong production experience across multiple database technologies and database architectures
• Experience leading major architectural changes, migrations, or scaling initiatives involving