Staff Database Engineer – DBA

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🏄 California – Remote

🏄 California – Remote

💵 $175k - $195k / year

⏰ Full Time

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ecoATM Gazelle

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201 - 500 employees

Founded 2010

🛒 Retail

🛍️ eCommerce

🌍 Social Impact

Retail • eCommerce • Social Impact

ecoATM Gazelle is a company specializing in the trade-in and recycling of electronic devices, particularly mobile phones. They operate thousands of kiosks across the United States, allowing consumers to sell their old phones in exchange for cash. By evaluating the device's condition and specifications, ecoATM provides a convenient and eco-friendly solution for reducing electronic waste, contributing to the recycling of over 50 million devices to date. Their mission focuses on sustainability by preventing toxic electronic waste from entering landfills, supporting a healthier planet while providing immediate financial returns to consumers through easy and secure transactions.

📋 Description

• Design and evolve scalable, highly available database architectures for transactional and analytical systems. • Define long-term‑ data storage, access, and modeling strategies aligned with business growth. • Lead evaluations of new database technologies, patterns, and cloud capabilities. • Diagnose complex database performance issues and design solutions involving schema design, indexing strategies, query optimization, caching, and architectural refactoring. • Conduct end-to-end tuning of ‑high-volume‑ workloads across services and data flows. • Establish performance baselines, monitoring standards, and proactive optimization strategies. • Own the reliability and scalability posture of database systems across multiple products and services. • Define and implement robust backup, restoration, high availability, and ‑disaster recovery‑ strategies. • Partner with SRE and platform teams to improve observability, automation, and operational efficiency. • Ensure compliance with data governance practices, security standards, and audit requirements. • Implement and maintain access control strategies, encryption policies, and data integrity safeguards. • Establish data modeling standards and best practices for teams across the organization. • Lead architectural discussions, design reviews, and technical decision-making across engineering teams. • Guide teams through modernization efforts such as migrations, schema redesigns, and system decompositions. • Mentor engineers of all levels and elevate database excellence across the organization. • Develop automation for deployment, maintenance, provisioning, and operational workflows. • Build internal tools that improve developer experience, reduce manual DBA workload, and standardize processes.

🎯 Requirements

• 8+ years of experience in database engineering, data architecture, or related technical roles. • Deep expertise with relational database systems (e.g., PostgreSQL, MySQL, Aurora, SQL Server). • Strong proficiency in SQL, performance tuning, indexing strategies, and query optimization. • Proven experience designing and scaling high throughput, ‑mission critical‑ production systems. • Extensive experience with backup/recovery strategies, HA/replication patterns, and disaster recovery. • Ability to diagnose complex system interactions across applications, networks, and databases. • Strong scripting/automation experience (Python, Bash, PowerShell, etc.). • Excellent communication and cross team‑ collaboration skills.