owner - Staff Datebase Engineer

• Hands-on experience working with databases inside the product — owning OLTP access patterns, indexing, query optimization, and schema design as part of building user-facing applications • Comfortable both writing code in the product stack and reasoning carefully at the database layer • Deep expertise with a major relational engine (Postgres strongly preferred) in high-volume production; experience migrating workloads (e.g., MongoDB → Postgres) a strong plus • Expertise in schema design, indexing, query optimization, and zero-downtime migrations on large, live tables • Experience scaling systems through significant traffic and data growth, in a domain where understanding access patterns at scale is a survival skill — e.g. advertising analytics, fintech / trading systems, large-scale consumer SaaS, or marketplaces • Strong software engineering ability — writes, reviews, and ships production code, not SQL alone • Flexible problem solving • Strong written and verbal communication skills • Deep sense of personal ownership and accountability • Builder mentality • Experience building shared platform primitives — data-sync tooling, ORM best practices, caching (Redis), search, or queues / event streaming • Experience with payments or financial data • Experience with cloud infrastructure (AWS/GCP), infrastructure-as-code (Terraform), and observability/performance tooling • Notice - Employment Scams • Communication from our team regarding job opportunities will only be made by an Owner team member with an @owner.com email address. • We do not conduct interviews over email or chat platforms, and we will never ask you to provide personal or financial information such as your mailing address, social security number, credit card numbers or banking information. If you believe you are being contacted by a scammer, please mark the communication as "phishing" or “spam” and do not respond.