Senior Database Platform Engineer

Overview

• 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 MariaDB, Kafka, Redis, Elasticsearch, and adjacent tooling with a very high operational bar.
• This team is not only responsible for keeping critical systems healthy.
• We also build the abstractions, guardrails, and automation that let internal teams provision resources, and evolve their data access patterns.
• We work closely with our internal customers and aim to stay ahead of their needs.
• We are hiring a Senior Database Platform Engineer to help us operate and evolve 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, capacity, backup/restore, disaster recovery, and security posture of shared data systems.
• Operate and improve platforms such as Kafka, Redis, Elasticsearch, MariaDB and other NoSQL databases with tight SLAs.
• Build and maintain high-touch abstractions and self-service workflows for provisioning, schema evolution, common operational changes, and routine maintenance.
• Use programming and AI-assisted workflows to automate repetitive work, improve diagnostics, raise documentation quality, and shorten time-to-resolution during incidents.
• Implement, deploy, operate, and improve satellite tools that improve our platform and increase our operational leverage.
• Partner closely with internal engineering teams on data access 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.