Staff Database Engineer – DBA

ecoATM Gazelle

Staff Database Engineer at ecoATM responsible for architecting and optimizing database systems. Leading initiatives and ensuring reliability and performance of data platforms.

Posted 7/13/2026full-timeRemote • California • 🇺🇸 United StatesLead💰 $175,000 - $195,000 per yearWebsite

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Core Competencies

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Demonstrates extensive expertise in designing scalable and highly available database architectures, with a strong focus on performance tuning, disaster recovery strategies, and compliance with data governance practices. Proven ability to lead teams through modernization efforts and enhance operational efficiency through automation and collaboration.

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Database EngineeringRelational Database SystemsSQL ProficiencyPerformance TuningDisaster Recovery Strategies

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Hard Skills

Database ArchitectureSchema DesignIndexing StrategiesQuery OptimizationBackup/Recovery StrategiesHigh AvailabilityScripting AutomationData ModelingPerformance MonitoringData Integrity Safeguards

Soft Skills

Excellent CommunicationCross Team CollaborationMentoring

Tools & Technologies

PostgreSQLMySQLAuroraSQL ServerPythonBashPowerShell

Industry Keywords

Data GovernanceCloud CapabilitiesOperational WorkflowsHigh Throughput SystemsMission Critical Systems

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

CloudMySQLPostgresPythonSQL

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

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

What you’ll need

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.

Benefits

Comp & perks

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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.).
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