Senior Database Development Engineer (Database)

TL;DR

Senior Database Development Engineer (Database): Delivering features in database archival technology for hirify.global's cloud-native database platform with an accent on architecting, developing, testing, and maintaining scalable and reliable services. Focus on ensuring uptime, predictable performance, and managing mission-critical systems at petabyte scale while working with complex, highly concurrent, and resilient systems.

Location: Must be based in San Francisco, California or Seattle, Washington, USA

Company

hirify.global Database Engineering builds and operates the cloud-native database platform that supports all core hirify.global traffic, forming the foundation of customer trust, availability, and scale.

What you will do

• Own design and development to deliver technical outcomes for product and platform issues.
• Assist with backlog planning, cross-team dependency planning, and drive team execution.
• Design and develop high-quality code to improve archival service reliability, availability, quality, performance, and scalability.
• Develop test strategies, design automation frameworks, and write unit/functional tests to improve code coverage and automation.
• Collaborate with engineering teams, architects, and managers to execute strategy for feature areas and enable the Scrum team.
• Own and resolve customer issues with urgency and passion for automation.

Requirements

• BS/MS in Computer Science or a related field required.
• Excellent communication and problem-solving skills.
• Experience developing backup/restore/database features for cloud databases.
• Experience with Scrum in an Agile development environment.
• Prior experience using Kubernetes to build and operate/manage stateful application clusters.
• Knowledge of infrastructure as code (Helm/Terraform) for large complex systems.
• Experience in public cloud technologies like AWS (EKS, EC2, IAM, VPC, S3).
• Deep knowledge of object-oriented programming and experience with Java or Python.
• Ability to debug, optimize code, and automate routine tasks and tests.
• CI/CD automation experience, including Jenkins, Spinnaker, and Docker.
• 10+ years in software development with 5+ years of database-related experience required.

Culture & Benefits

• A team of smart and tenacious engineers dedicated to excellence through product and platform expertise and uncompromising integrity.
• Quality is the highest priority, ensuring code is secure, performant at scale, and functional.
• Committed to delivering highly available, elastically scalable, and cost-optimized services.
• Fosters autonomy, innovation, learning, respect, and transparency.