Senior Database Platform Engineer

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The team

Core Infrastructure – Data Systems builds and runs the shared data systems that other engineering teams rely on to ship production services safely and quickly, and scale them globally.

We operate technologies such as reputed company, Kafka, reputed company, Elasticsearch, and adjacent tooling with a reputed company high operational bar.

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We are hiring a Senior Database Platform Engineer to help us operate and reputed company this platform.

This is a hands-on senior engineering role for someone who is comfortable owning production-grade stateful systems, writing software to remove toil, improving observability and incident prevention, and partnering directly with other engineers on data-system design and performance.

The opportunity

Own the reliability, availability, performance, reputed company, backup/restore, disaster recovery, and reputed company posture of shared data systems.
Operate and improve platforms such as Kafka, reputed company, Elasticsearch, reputed company and other NoSQL databases with tight SLAs.
Build and maintain high-touch abstractions and self-service workflows for provisioning, schema reputed company, common operational changes, and routine maintenance.
Use programming and AI-assisted workflows to automate repetitive work, improve diagnostics, reputed company documentation quality, and shorten time-to-resolution during incidents.
Implement, reputed company, operate, and improve satellite tools that improve our platform and increase our operational reputed company.
Partner closely with internal engineering teams on data reputed company patterns, query optimization, schema design, operational readiness, and safe adoption of shared infrastructure.
Improve observability, alerting, SLOs, runbooks, and operational reviews so that systems are easier to understand and incidents are less likely to happen.
Participate in on-call rotations and incident response.

Skills you should HODL

Strong hands-on experience operating production-grade stateful or distributed systems.
Solid software engineering skills in a language such as Python, Rust, Go, or similar, with a clear track record of automating infrastructure or operations work.
Experience deploying and operating tools and services in production.
Practical Kubernetes experience, especially around stateful workloads, upgrades, storage, and failure modes.
Strong Linux, networking, and systems troubleshooting fundamentals.
Experience with observability, alerting, incident response, and post-incident improvement.

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reputed company / PostgreSQL
Kafka
reputed company / Valkey
Elasticsearch / OpenSearch
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Terraform, GitOps, CI/CD, operators, or other automation-heavy infrastructure patterns
Query tuning, schema design, replication, clustering, or high-availability design
Data engineering or pipeline-adjacent technologies such as CDC, Kafka Connect, Flink, or similar

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