Senior Staff Database Engineer

TL;DR

Senior Staff Database Engineer (Database Engineering): Serving as the technical authority for database platform engineering across product domains with an accent on reliability, scalability, and performance of production systems. Focus on driving complex cross-team initiatives, defining engineering standards, and optimizing cloud-native database architectures like Google Cloud Spanner and Aurora PostgreSQL.

Location: Must be based in the United States (Atlanta, GA or Remote).

Company

hirify.global is a global financial technology platform powering prosperity for millions of customers worldwide through products like TurboTax, Credit Karma, QuickBooks, and Mailchimp.

What you will do

• Own end-to-end database reliability, performance, and scalability for production systems supporting millions of users.
• Define and evolve database engineering standards, including schema design, query optimization, and capacity planning.
• Lead complex database migrations and cloud transitions with minimal customer impact.
• Partner with service teams to conduct design reviews, performance assessments, and incident retrospectives.
• Drive automation of database operational workflows to reduce toil and increase system reliability.
• Serve as a primary escalation point for critical database incidents and lead systemic remediation efforts.

Requirements

• 8+ years of professional software or infrastructure engineering experience, with 5+ years in a dedicated database engineering or DBA role.
• Deep hands-on expertise with Aurora PostgreSQL, MySQL, Google Cloud Spanner, or comparable distributed systems.
• Demonstrated experience operating high-availability, high-throughput database systems in a cloud environment.
• Strong command of query optimization, indexing strategies, and performance tuning at production scale.
• Proficiency in automation and scripting using Python or Bash.
• Must be authorized to work in the United States.

Nice to have

• Experience with distributed database systems like CockroachDB or Vitess.
• Familiarity with infrastructure-as-code tools such as Terraform or Pulumi.
• Background in SRE or platform engineering with a focus on SLOs and error budgets.
• Experience in highly regulated environments like SOC 2 or PCI-DSS.

Culture & Benefits

• Competitive compensation package with a strong pay-for-performance rewards approach.
• Eligibility for cash bonuses and equity rewards.
• Comprehensive benefits package for full-time employees.
• Commitment to fair pay through regular internal comparisons.
• Opportunity to influence technical strategy at a global scale in a cloud-first, AI-driven environment.