Engineering Manager, Datastores (Database)

TL;DR

Engineering Manager (Datastores): Leading a team responsible for the reliability, scalability, and evolution of core production databases (MongoDB and PostgreSQL) within hirify.global’s application and hosting stack. Focus on driving roadmap and strategy for multi-region architecture, disaster recovery, and infrastructure automation, while partnering with product engineering to ensure data durability and performance.

Location: Remote-first (Argentina)

Company

hirify.global is building the world's leading AI-native Digital Experience Platform, empowering teams to design, launch, and optimize for the web without barriers.

What you will do

• Lead and grow a team of Database engineers responsible for MongoDB and PostgreSQL in production.
• Own the operational excellence of the database layer, including availability, durability, performance, cost efficiency, and data residency.
• Drive roadmap and strategy for multi-region architecture, backup and disaster recovery, indexing and schema governance, capacity planning, and infrastructure automation.
• Partner with Product Engineering to guide new access patterns, review high-impact launches for database risk, and establish guardrails.
• Improve reliability through proactive failure-mode detection, clear SLOs, actionable alerting, and high-quality incident response and retrospectives.
• Build self-service tooling for migrations, connection management, indexing, and query best practices.

Requirements

• BS/BA college degree or relevant experience.
• Business-level fluency in English required.
• 2+ years of experience leading high-performing engineering teams required.
• 6+ years of hands-on experience operating and scaling production databases (MongoDB and/or PostgreSQL preferred) required.
• Experience running business-critical, high-throughput systems with strong availability and durability requirements.

Nice to have

• Deep expertise in operating and scaling production databases (e.g., replication, failover, indexing, query planning, migrations) and leading teams supporting stateful, multi-region systems.
• Balance strong architectural judgment with pragmatism, evolving datastore strategy while enabling product teams to ship quickly and safely.
• Experience in infrastructure as code (Pulumi/Terraform), Kubernetes, and AWS.
• Strong systems-level thinking to identify root causes across application, database, and infrastructure layers and build preventative solutions.
• Ability to lead calmly through high-severity incidents, drive blameless postmortems and systemic improvements.
• Curiosity and openness to growth, actively building fluency in emerging technologies like AI.

Culture & Benefits

• Equity (RSUs) in the company for all permanent employees.
• Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision plans for full-time employees and their dependents, with hirify.global covering most premiums.
• 12 weeks of paid parental leave for all parents and 6+ weeks of additional paid leave for birthing parents.
• Flexible vacation, paid holidays, and a sabbatical program to help you recharge.
• Access to mental health resources, therapy, and coaching.
• 401(k) with 100% employer match (up to $6,000/year) in the U.S., and support for retirement savings globally.
• Monthly localized stipends for work and wellness expenses.
• Annual WIN bonus program for all full-time, permanent, non-commission employees.

Hiring process

• A valid right to work authorization is required depending on the country of employment.
• Offer may be contingent upon successful completion of a background check, conducted in accordance with applicable laws.