Staff Engineer, Datastores

🕒 November 4

🇨🇦 Canada – Remote

💵 CA$195k - CA$259k / year

⏰ Full Time

🔴 Lead

🧑‍💻 Full-stack Engineer

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Nue.io

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201 - 500 employees

Founded 2019

☁️ SaaS

🤝 B2B

💸 Finance

💰 $20M Series A on 2025-01

SaaS • B2B • Finance

Nue is a SaaS platform that unifies the full revenue lifecycle — CPQ (configure, price, quote), self-service, usage metering, billing, and revenue recognition — on a single agentic foundation. It offers AI-driven configuration and pricing, lifecycle management (amendments, renewals, upgrades), hybrid monetization (subscriptions, usage, credits, commits), automated billing and collections, self-serve APIs, and pre-built integrations to CRM/ERP/payments. Nue targets go-to-market, RevOps, finance, product, and sales teams at enterprises and emphasizes enterprise-grade compliance and security (SOC 2 Type II, GDPR) and support for ASC 606/IFRS 15 reporting.

📋 Description

• Set the multi-year datastore strategy and roadmap across PostgreSQL, ClickHouse, caching, and streaming • Own reliability, availability, performance, cost, SLOs, error budgets, and operational standards for production datastores • Lead scale-out architecture for the multi-tenant data layer, including partitioning, read scaling, tenant isolation, sharding, tenant placement, and online rebalancing • Lead migration to fully managed, highly available PostgreSQL with zero data loss and minimal downtime • Own ClickHouse architecture, table engines, partitioning, ordering keys, materialized views, CDC, and ingestion pipelines • Guide product teams on datastore and data model selection for OLTP, OLAP, cache, and queue workloads • Build monitoring, alerting, load testing, capacity models, and proactive performance practices • Own replication, read/write separation, failover, backup and restore, disaster recovery, RPO/RTO targets, and regular drills • Establish zero-downtime schema migration practices and migration tooling in CI/CD • Review schema and query designs, write standards and design documents, mentor engineers, and support Billing, Lifecycle, Data & Integrations, and DevEx • Own encryption, access controls, secrets rotation, tenant isolation, and audit logging aligned with SOC 2 Type II and GDPR • Use AI for migration planning, query optimization, runbook automation, and incident response • Participate in on-call, releases, CI/CD fixes, general infrastructure work, and major datastore incident response • Grow the datastore function through hiring, onboarding, and operating model development • Deliver a datastore strategy, managed PostgreSQL migration, 10x growth readiness, scalable analytics, measurable reliability, AI-enabled operations, and company-wide technical leadership

🎯 Requirements

• 10+ years in backend, infrastructure, or data platform engineering • 5+ years owning production databases at scale in SaaS environments • Track record of Staff-level impact, including setting technical direction across multiple teams and leading multi-quarter initiatives • Expert-level PostgreSQL knowledge, including MVCC, vacuum, WAL, planner, query optimization, EXPLAIN analysis, indexing, partitioning, and replication • Hands-on experience with a columnar/OLAP datastore, ideally ClickHouse • Experience designing and operating horizontally scaled, multi-tenant database architectures and replication topologies in production • Experience leading large-scale database migrations with zero data loss and minimal downtime • Deep experience with managed databases on AWS, including RDS, Aurora, and/or serverless PostgreSQL • Strong observability practice, including CloudWatch, pganalyze, HyperDX, Datadog, or similar, and defining and running to SLOs • Infrastructure as Code using Terraform/OpenTofu or CloudFormation • Experience with connection pooling such as PgBouncer or RDS Proxy • Schema migration tooling such as Flyway or Liquibase • Strong scripting skills in Python and Bash • Hands-on fluency with AI coding agents and developer tools such as Claude, Cursor, Copilot, or Codex • Excellent written and verbal communication • Team-first and hands-on approach to releases, on-call, and pipeline work • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent practical experience • Preferred: experience with Redis, Memcached, Kafka, Debezium, ClickPipes, MySQL/MariaDB, NoSQL datastores, internal data platforms, SOC 2, GDPR, revenue operations, billing, financial systems, GitLab CI/CD, or open-source database projects

🏖️ Benefits

• Flexible remote/hybrid work arrangement within Canada • Comprehensive health, vision, dental, and life insurance • Competitive compensation and benefits • Staff+ individual contributor path • Growth and leadership opportunities • Equal opportunity employer • Accommodations at any stage of the hiring process

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