Team Lead, Database Engineering
SoSafe
full-time
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Location Type: Remote
Location: Portugal
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About the role
- Own and lead SoSafe’s Database Platform, a business-critical enabler across our products
- Grow the Database Platform team with a strong focus on ownership and excellence
- Define future strategy to establish standards, tooling and automation in changing landscape toward micro-services/micro-databases
- Translate company and engineering strategy into a clear, outcome-driven roadmap, balancing reliability, scalability, compliance and new capabilities
- Ensure databases are reliable, scalable, observable and cost-efficient
- Build strong partnerships with Product and other Platform teams to maximize impact across the organization
Requirements
- You have led and grown engineering teams
- You bring strong people leadership experience and enjoy coaching, developing and growing experienced engineers
- You’re comfortable leading teams through ambiguity, turning strategy into execution and measurable outcomes
- You have experience running databases in cloud-native environments, ideally with platforms like PostgreSQL and managed services such as AWS RDS or Aurora (or equivalent solutions on other cloud providers)
- You value reliability and operational excellence as much as feature delivery
- You think in platforms and products, treating experience squads as your customers
- You communicate clearly and confidently with both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
- You’re familiar with - or excited to work with - the following areas:
- Designing and running relational database platforms based on PostgreSQL, including managed services such as AWS RDS and Aurora
- Using GitHub for version control and Infrastructure as Code approaches (e.g. Terraform) to manage cloud and platform resources
- Evolving a distributed system landscape, including the migration from monolithic architectures to micro-services and micro-database setups
Benefits
- Work/Life balance: Flexible hours, 33 vacation days
- Wellbeing and financial support: Access to Open Up, corporate discounts
- Connection & community: Virtual events, collaborative team activities, and opportunities for local meet-ups
- And the list goes on: Tech equipment, referral bonuses, dog-friendly HQ
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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Hard Skills & Tools
database managementPostgreSQLAWS RDSAWS AuroraInfrastructure as CodeTerraformcloud-native environmentsmicro-servicesmicro-databasesdistributed systems
Soft Skills
people leadershipcoachingteam developmentstrategic executioncommunicationpartnership buildingadaptabilityoutcome-driven mindsetreliability focusoperational excellence