Chainguard - Staff Platform Database Engineer
Requirements
• 8+ years building and operating production database and platform infrastructure in modern cloud environments. • Staff-level experience leading complex technical initiatives and influencing architecture across multiple engineering teams. • Deep experience designing, building, and operating database infrastructure in production. • Strong PostgreSQL and MySQL experience. • Hands-on production experience with: • High availability • Backups and recovery • Database migrations • Capacity planning • Distributed databases operating across geographies • Experience operating production database systems with global availability in high scale environments. • Experience designing and operating database infrastructure in cloud environments, including AWS and Google Cloud. • Strong server-side Linux experience. • Proficiency programming in Go. • Experience writing production code and building infrastructure tooling, • Ability to evaluate existing systems, identify risk, and translate findings into an opinionated architecture and implementation roadmap. • Strong communication and cross-functional leadership skills, with the ability to guide engineering teams toward shared standards and practices. • Experience applying AI or automation to database operations and infrastructure workflows. • Deep knowledge of database internals. • Experience with Terraform or other infrastructure-as-code tooling. • Experience running stateful systems on Kubernetes. • Experience building database platforms or self-service database infrastructure for internal engineering teams. • Experience with database governance, automated policy enforcement, and developer enablement. • Explore Our Work • Explore Our Work • Dive into the practical side of what we do at Chainguard. These resources provide a hands-on look at our processes and offer an opportunity for in-depth understanding of our product offerings and the technology behind them. • Chainguard Academy • https://www.chainguard.dev
Responsibilities
• Define database platform strategy. Establish how databases should be deployed, managed, scaled, and operated across Chainguard, with a focus on consistency, resiliency, performance, and global availability. • Define database platform strategy. • Assess and prioritize the current environment. Build an inventory of existing database systems, identify the highest-impact and highest-risk environments, and develop a roadmap for improving resiliency and reducing operational risk. • Assess and prioritize the current environment. • Improve resiliency and availability. Design and implement approaches for replication, high availability, backups, disaster recovery, migrations, and capacity planning across globally distributed systems. • Improve resiliency and availability. • Build tooling and automation. Develop production-grade tooling, governance models, and automated guardrails that make the right database practices easy to adopt and difficult to bypass. • Build tooling and automation. • Write production code. Contribute directly to the systems and tools that support database deployment, management, and reliability. • Write production code. • Support global scale. Help design database systems that can operate across regions and geographies while accounting for availability, latency, EU data residency, and sovereignty requirements. • Support global scale. • Reduce operational risk. Improve database architecture and operating practices with the goal of driving database-related availability incidents toward zero. • Reduce operational risk. • Provide technical leadership. Lead a company-wide database infrastructure initiative — establishing scalable standards, authoring architectural design docs, and partnering across engineering teams to improve architecture and drive consistent practices. • Provide technical leadership.
Benefits
• $205,000—$231,000 USD • We live and breathe our company values: • We are customer obsessed — We focus on delivering solutions to our customers that create value and make their lives better. • We have a bias for intentional action — We prioritize, plan, try things, and fail fast. • We don't take ourselves too seriously (but we do serious work) — We are solving an important problem which takes focus, but we also like to enjoy the journey. • We trust each other and assume good intentions — We're transparent with decisions to empower team members to make well informed decisions. • Flexible & Remote-First Culture: Work remotely with team meetup opportunities, bi-annual destination summits, and a monthly stipend for coworking spaces, phone and internet costs. • Flexible & Remote-First Culture: • Our Approach to Equity: Receive stock options upon hire and promotion. Plus, you can participate in secondary offerings and have 10 years to exercise your options (yes, you read that correctly: 10 years!). • Our Approach to Equity: • 100% Covered Health Insurance: We cover 100% of your health, vision and dental insurance premiums for you and your dependents. Nothing comes out of your paycheck. • 100% Covered Health Insurance: • ∞ Flexible Time Off: Take the time you need – to do our best work, we need to recharge and reset. • ∞ Flexible Time Off: • 18 Weeks Paid Parental Leave: We offer 18 weeks for birthing parents and 12 weeks for non-birthing parents, with the option to use it all at once or throughout your child's first year. • 18 Weeks Paid Parental Leave: • If your experience is close but doesn't fulfill all requirements, please apply. We're building the best team in technology and are focused on hiring "Chainguardians" with unique backgrounds, perspectives, and experiences.
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