Staff Database Engineer

Multi Media, LLC

Staff Database Engineer owning resilient PostgreSQL infrastructure for Chaturbate, a global live-streaming platform. Improving reliability, recovery, performance, observability, and incident response at massive scale.

Posted 8/4/2026full-timeRemote • 🇺🇸 United StatesLead💰 $195,000 - $227,500 per yearWebsite

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Core Competencies

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Demonstrates extensive expertise in PostgreSQL management, focusing on reliability, performance, and scalability in large-scale production environments. Proficient in automating operational tasks and implementing best practices for database health and incident response.

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PostgreSQL ReliabilityDatabase Incident ResponseHigh AvailabilityPerformance TuningAutomation Scripting

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Hard Skills

PostgreSQLDatabase UpgradesReplicationBackup and RecoveryQuery Execution PlansIndexingAutovacuumCheckpoint TuningWAL ManagementSchema Design

Soft Skills

Strong CommunicationJudgment

Tools & Technologies

PatroniPgBouncerInfrastructure-as-CodeConfiguration ManagementMonitoring ToolsObservability Platforms

Industry Keywords

High-Volume WorkloadsBusiness-Critical ProductionOperational StandardsSRE PracticesReal-Time Systems

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

DjangoLinuxPostgresPython

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Own the day-to-day reliability and operational health of Chaturbate’s PostgreSQL environment
Identify and proactively address database reliability, performance, and scalability risks
Improve high availability, replication, backup, restore, and disaster recovery capabilities
Lead database incident response and implement preventative improvements
Plan and execute PostgreSQL upgrades, migrations, and maintenance with minimal disruption
Monitor and tune performance across high-volume, latency-sensitive, high-write workloads
Build observability, alerting, automation, and operational runbooks with SRE
Plan for growth in data volume, storage, compute, WAL generation, replication bandwidth, and latency
Review database architecture, schema design, queries, migrations, scalability, and operational risk for new products
Develop PostgreSQL operational standards, automation, and best practices
Document the environment and strengthen SRE PostgreSQL knowledge
Participate in an on-call rotation for critical database incidents
Analyze query execution plans, indexing, autovacuum, table bloat, checkpoint tuning, and storage efficiency

Requirements

What you’ll need

10+ years of hands-on experience operating PostgreSQL in large-scale, business-critical production environments
Deep knowledge of PostgreSQL reliability, replication, failover, backup, recovery, and high availability
Experience preventing, diagnosing, and resolving complex production database incidents
Experience planning and safely executing PostgreSQL upgrades, migrations, and maintenance
Strong understanding of PostgreSQL internals, including WAL, autovacuum, indexing, locking, query planning, and connection management
Experience supporting high-volume workloads, large data sets, or rapidly growing databases
Strong Linux knowledge and understanding of infrastructure effects on database performance and reliability
Ability to automate operational work through scripting, configuration management, or infrastructure tooling
Experience building monitoring, alerting, runbooks, and incident-response practices
Strong communication and judgment to work across SRE and product engineering teams
Nice to have: Patroni, PgBouncer, or comparable PostgreSQL high-availability and connection-pooling technologies
Nice to have: Multi-region database recovery strategy design or testing
Nice to have: Infrastructure-as-code, configuration management, and modern observability platforms
Nice to have: Building PostgreSQL operational knowledge within an SRE or infrastructure organization
Nice to have: Supporting high-traffic consumer platforms, real-time systems, or revenue-critical transaction flows
Nice to have: Python Django web framework experience

Benefits

Comp & perks

Fair and competitive base salary
Fully Remote Optional
Health, Vision, Dental, and Life Insurance for you and any dependents, with policy premiums covered by the Company
Long & Short term disability insurance
Unlimited PTO
Annual Year-End Company Closure
Optional 401k with 5% matching
12 Paid Holidays
Paid Lunches in-office, or if Remote, a $125/week stipend via Sharebite
Employee Assistance and Employee Recognition Programs