Senior Cloud Database Engineer in United States at Jobgether

This position is posted by Jobgether on behalf of a partner company. We are currently looking for a Senior Cloud Database Engineer in United States.

This role sits at the core of a high-scale, cloud-native financial technology platform responsible for processing billions of transactions globally. The engineer will design, optimize, and automate mission-critical database systems that ensure performance, availability, and resilience across distributed environments. Operating within a highly collaborative cloud engineering team, the role focuses on advancing AWS-based database infrastructure, improving scalability, and driving reliability through automation-first principles. It is an opportunity to influence the evolution of large-scale relational and NoSQL systems supporting real-time financial services. The environment is fast-paced, deeply technical, and centered on continuous improvement and operational excellence. The role also involves close collaboration with application, platform, and SRE teams to ensure seamless data operations across the organization.

• Own and evolve cloud database systems supporting high-scale, real-time transactional platforms, ensuring reliability, availability, and performance across distributed environments.
• Design and implement database architecture solutions including high availability, disaster recovery, replication, partitioning, and sharding strategies.
• Automate database lifecycle management for cloud-native environments, with a strong focus on AWS services such as Aurora, MySQL, PostgreSQL, DynamoDB, and related tooling.
• Collaborate with engineering teams to analyze performance, resolve incidents, conduct root cause analysis, and implement long-term remediation strategies.
• Develop infrastructure-as-code and CI/CD pipelines to streamline deployments, improve consistency, and reduce manual operational overhead.
• Build and enhance monitoring, alerting, and observability frameworks using modern tooling to ensure proactive system health management.
• Contribute to architectural decision-making, technical documentation, and cross-functional alignment on database strategy and evolution.
• Mentor junior engineers and contribute to engineering best practices, standards, and continuous improvement initiatives.

This role requires strong experience in backend and cloud database engineering, ideally within high-scale, distributed systems environments. Candidates should bring deep expertise in cloud-native databases (particularly AWS), strong SQL proficiency, and hands-on experience with automation, infrastructure, and performance tuning. You should be comfortable working across engineering, platform, and operations teams in a highly collaborative and ownership-driven environment.

• 5+ years of backend or database engineering experience, or 7+ years of equivalent professional experience in lieu of a degree
• Strong experience with AWS cloud databases including Aurora, MySQL, PostgreSQL, and NoSQL systems such as DynamoDB or MongoDB
• Solid understanding of database internals, query optimization, indexing, replication, and distributed systems design
• Experience with high availability, disaster recovery, and cloud-based fault-tolerant architectures
• Proficiency in Python and strong familiarity with Linux environments and shell scripting
• Hands-on experience with infrastructure-as-code tools (e.g., Terraform) and CI/CD pipelines
• Experience with monitoring and observability platforms such as Datadog
• Strong automation mindset with a focus on reducing manual operations and improving system reliability
• Excellent communication skills, strong ownership mentality, and ability to work cross-functionally
• Nice to have: experience in FinTech or payments, database migrations, ProxySQL or RDS Proxy, and AI-assisted tooling

• Competitive base salary range: $144,100 – $180,100 USD
• Annual performance-based bonus eligibility
• Equity in a publicly traded company and employee stock purchase program
• Multiple medical, dental, and vision insurance options
• Flexible time off and remote-first work model
• Retirement savings plan with company contributions
• Family-forming benefits, fertility support, and generous parental leave
• Wellness support including therapy sessions, financial coaching, and legal assistance
• Monthly remote work stipend and annual learning & development budget
• Inclusive, flexible work environment with global collaboration opportunities