Staff Database Engineer

🕒 August 1

🌐 United States, Canada, +1 more countries – Remote

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⏰ Full Time

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🔙 Backend Engineer

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Owner.com

WebsiteLinkedInAll Job Openings

201 - 500 employees

Founded 2020

🍽️ Food & Beverage

📣 Marketing

💼 Consulting

💰 $120M Series C - Owner on 2025-05

Food & Beverage • Marketing • Consulting

Owner. com is an AI-powered SaaS platform that helps independent restaurants grow direct online sales by providing branded websites, online ordering, custom mobile apps, automated marketing, loyalty programs, and zero-commission delivery. The company emphasizes driving more Google traffic, repeat orders, and reduced third-party fees for restaurant owners through turnkey technology and support.

📋 Description

• Lead the migration of product workloads • Give product engineers a clear home for "where should this data live and how should I access it?" • Build reusable primitives — data-sync utilities, ORM best practices, and access-pattern / schema / index review — so teams stop reinventing patterns. • Expand the product-data platform over time into caching, search, and event streaming.

🎯 Requirements

• Hands-on experience working with databases inside the product — owning OLTP access patterns, indexing, query optimization, and schema design as part of building user-facing applications • Comfortable both writing code in the product stack and reasoning carefully at the database layer • Deep expertise with a major relational engine (Postgres strongly preferred) in high-volume production; experience migrating workloads (e.g., MongoDB → Postgres) a strong plus • Expertise in schema design, indexing, query optimization, and zero-downtime migrations on large, live tables • Experience scaling systems through significant traffic and data growth, in a domain where understanding access patterns at scale is a survival skill — e.g. advertising analytics, fintech / trading systems, large-scale consumer SaaS, or marketplaces • Strong software engineering ability — writes, reviews, and ships production code, not SQL alone • Flexible problem solving • Strong written and verbal communication skills • Deep sense of personal ownership and accountability • Builder mentality • Nice to Haves • Experience building shared platform primitives — data-sync tooling, ORM best practices, caching (Redis), search, or queues / event streaming • Experience with payments or financial data • Experience with cloud infrastructure (AWS/GCP), infrastructure-as-code (Terraform), and observability/performance tooling

🏖️ Benefits

• Health insurance • Retirement plans • Paid time off • Flexible work arrangements • Professional development opportunities