TensorWave
Staff Database Engineer
Las Vegas, Nevada · Staff+ · Contract
Sponsorship not specifiedDetected 47 days ago
SQLPostgreSQLMySQLMongoDBCloud PlatformsTerraformAnsibleCI/CDLinuxPrometheusGrafanaDevOpsPlatform EngineeringMachine LearningMLOpsStatisticsIncident ResponseAccountingLeadershipCollaboration
About the role
- We're looking for a Staff Database Engineer to join our team during an exciting phase of growth.
Responsibilities
- Design and own database architecture for critical infrastructure and platform services, including PostgreSQL-backed internal platforms, Slurm accounting and operational databases, NetBox and infrastructure source-of-truth databases, custom internal applications and automation services, observability, inventory, and platform metadata systems, future database-backed control plane services.
- Establish database design standards for new internal platforms, including schema review, indexing strategy, query design, service ownership boundaries, and production readiness requirements.
- Own the lifecycle of database systems, including provisioning, configuration, version upgrades, replication topology design, performance tuning, backup validation, disaster recovery testing, decommissioning, documentation and runbook creation
- Troubleshoot and resolve production database issues involving query latency, lock contention, replication lag, storage I/O bottlenecks, connection exhaustion, poor indexing, schema design problems, database capacity constraints, backup or restore failures
- Drive root cause analysis for database-related incidents and convert findings into durable engineering improvements.
- For Slurm environments, support and improve database architecture related to SlurmDBD, accounting data, job history, reporting queries, performance and retention strategy, database scaling, backup and recovery, long-term operational reliability
- For NetBox and source-of-truth systems, support PostgreSQL performance, database lifecycle planning, backup and restore validation, data integrity, schema-impact review, integration patterns with automation systems
- Partner with DevOps, Infrastructure, MLOps, and Platform Engineering teams to ensure database-backed systems are designed to scale as the environment grows.
- Build deep database observability beyond basic dashboards.
- Create performance baselines and alerting standards for critical database platforms.
Requirements
- 8+ years of production database engineering, database administration, or database architecture experience
- Strong hands-on experience with PostgreSQL in production environments
- Strong hands-on experience with MySQL, Percona, or equivalent relational database platforms
- Experience designing and operating highly available database systems
- Experience with replication, failover, backup, restore, and disaster recovery validation
- Experience supporting production incidents and performing root cause analysis
- Ability to work across infrastructure, DevOps, platform, and application engineering teams
- Ability to define standards, influence architecture, and mentor other engineers without requiring direct management authority
Nice to have
- Experience with SlurmDBD, Slurm accounting databases, or HPC/AI infrastructure database workloads
- Experience with NetBox or other infrastructure source-of-truth platforms
- Experience with Percona XtraDB Cluster, ProxySQL, or advanced MySQL/Percona architectures
- Experience with PostgreSQL HA tooling and replication architectures
- Experience with Prometheus, Grafana, PMM, Splunk, or similar observability platforms
- Experience with eBPF/BCC, perf, strace, or other low-level Linux diagnostic tooling
- Experience supporting databases for SaaS, cloud, HPC, AI infrastructure, or large multi-tenant platforms
- Experience with MongoDB, Oracle, SQL Server, or other secondary database platforms
Benefits
- 100% paid Medical, Dental, and Vision insurance for Employees
- Company Health Savings Account Contributions
- 100% paid Short Term and Long Term Disability Insurance for Employees
- Various Supplementary Health Benefits, such as discounted Virtual Healthcare Appointments and Serious Illness Support
- Flexible Spending Account
- Parental Leave
- Other In-Office Perks
Company info
- deliver seamless, secure, reliable, and resilient AI compute at scale.
- We've built a versatile cloud platform that eliminates infrastructure barriers, empowering builders to focus on innovation instead of fighting their stack.
- Because breakthrough AI should move at the speed of ideas, not infrastructure.
Equal opportunity
- TensorWave is an Equal Opportunity Employer.
- We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees.
- We do not discriminate on the basis of any protected status under applicable law.
- Reasonable Accommodations
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