Yuxi Global powered by Veritas Automata

Database Engineer

Yuxi Global powered by Veritas Automata

full-time

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Location Type: Remote

Location: Remote • 🇨🇴 Colombia

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Job Level

Mid-LevelSenior

Tech Stack

AWSAzureCassandraCloudDynamoDBElasticSearchGoogle Cloud PlatformKubernetesMongoDBMySQLNoSQLPostgresRDBMSRedisSQL

About the role

  • Design, configure, and maintain relational and NoSQL database systems across cloud and containerized environments.
  • Develop and optimize schemas, indexes, queries, and stored procedures for performance, scalability, and reliability.
  • Implement backup/restore strategies, high-availability configurations, replication, and disaster recovery plans.
  • Troubleshoot database performance issues using profiling, monitoring, and observability tools.
  • Collaborate with engineering teams to optimize data access patterns, API integrations, and application-database interactions.
  • Automate provisioning, patching, schema migrations, and operational workflows using modern DevOps/DBOps practices.
  • Ensure data governance, security, encryption, auditing, and compliance with regulatory requirements.
  • Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines for database changes across environments.
  • Participate in incident response and root-cause analysis for production data issues.
  • Mentor junior engineers on database design, performance tuning, and operational best practices.

Requirements

  • 5–8 years of professional experience in database engineering, data platform engineering, or backend engineering with an emphasis on data systems.
  • Strong expertise in one or more RDBMS technologies (PostgreSQL, MySQL, SQL Server, Aurora).
  • Experience with NoSQL platforms such as MongoDB, Cassandra, DynamoDB, Redis, or Elasticsearch.
  • Proficiency in SQL query optimization, indexing strategies, partitioning, and data modeling.
  • Familiarity with Kubernetes-based environments, operators, StatefulSets, and persistent storage solutions.
  • Hands-on experience with database observability: metrics, logs, traces, dashboards, and profiling.
  • Knowledge of CI/CD pipelines, schema migration tools, and Git-based workflows.
  • Understanding of cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP), networking, IAM, and managed database services.
  • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent practical experience.
  • Advanced English level (written and spoken) to communicate effectively across global teams.
Benefits
  • Work-life integration: We support work-life balance and create greater synergy among work, home, family, and personal well-being.

Applicant Tracking System Keywords

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Hard skills
relational database systemsNoSQL database systemsPostgreSQLMySQLSQL ServerAuroraMongoDBCassandraDynamoDBRedis
Soft skills
collaborationmentoringtroubleshootingcommunication
Certifications
Bachelor's degree in Computer ScienceBachelor's degree in Engineering