Staff Platform Database Engineer

🕒 4 days ago

🇺🇸 United States – Remote

💵 $205k - $231k / year

⏰ Full Time

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🔙 Backend Engineer

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Chainguard

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51 - 200 employees

Founded 2021

🔐 Security

☁️ SaaS

🔒 Cybersecurity

Security • SaaS • Cybersecurity

Chainguard is a company that specializes in building secure container images to enhance software security and compliance. Their products include low-to-zero CVE container images, which are updated daily to maintain security and compliance standards such as FedRAMP, NIST 800-53, PCI-DSS, SOC2, and CIS benchmarks. Chainguard focuses on reducing vulnerabilities, automating compliance, and supporting development workflows without compromising on innovation and productivity. The company serves a wide range of industries, including highly regulated sectors, by providing hardened image solutions to mitigate software supply chain risks and enhance application security.

📋 Description

• Define database platform strategy for deployment, management, scaling, and operation across Chainguard • Build an inventory of existing database systems and prioritize high-impact, high-risk environments • Develop a roadmap to improve resiliency and reduce operational risk • Design and implement replication, high availability, backups, disaster recovery, migrations, and capacity planning • Develop production-grade tooling, governance models, and automated guardrails • Write production code supporting database deployment, management, and reliability • Design database systems operating across regions and geographies while accounting for availability, latency, EU data residency, and sovereignty requirements • Improve database architecture and operating practices to drive database-related availability incidents toward zero • Lead company-wide database infrastructure initiatives • Author technical and architectural design documents • Establish scalable standards for reliable, secure, performant, and maintainable systems • Partner with Dev Platform, SRE, Customer Engineering, and engineering teams to review architecture and drive consistent best practices

🎯 Requirements

• 8+ years building and operating production database and platform infrastructure in modern cloud environments • Significant experience in software engineering, infrastructure engineering, or platform engineering with a strong focus on database systems • 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 replication, high availability, backups and recovery, database migrations, capacity planning, and 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 • Chainguard is an equal opportunity employer

🏖️ Benefits

• Work remotely with team meetup opportunities • Bi-annual destination summits • Monthly stipend for coworking spaces, phone and internet costs • Stock options upon hire and promotion • Participation in secondary offerings • 10 years to exercise stock options • 100% covered health, vision and dental insurance premiums for employee and dependents • Flexible time off • 18 weeks paid parental leave for birthing parents • 12 weeks paid parental leave for non-birthing parents • Option to use parental leave all at once or throughout the child's first year