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Agent guide: [/agents.md](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/agents.md). --- # Staff Database Engineer (DBA) - **Company:** ecoATM Gazelle - **Location:** San Diego, CA, United States (Remote available) - **Experience:** Expert - **Salary:** $175,000.0 - $195,000.0 - **Contract:** Permanent contract - **Skills:** Microsoft Access, Bash Shell, BigQuery, Databases, Data Architecture, Data Governance, Data Integrity, Relational Databases, Disaster Recovery, Distributed Data Store, Amazon DynamoDB, Event-Driven Programming, Python (Programming Language), PostgreSQL, Microsoft SQL Server, MySQL, Performance Tuning, Windows PowerShell, Query Optimization, Cloud Services, SQL Databases, Data Streaming, Scripting, Data Storage Technologies, System Availability, Snowflake, Database Optimization, Caching, Database Performance, Amazon Relational Database Service, Data Management, Video Streaming, Microservices - **Published:** July 14, 2026 - **Apply:** https://www.indeed.com/viewjob?jk=a656f82f70e58332 ## About the Role Required * 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. Preferred * Experience with distributed databases or cloud native data platforms (AWS RDS/Aurora, DynamoDB, BigQuery-, Snowflake, etc.). * Familiarity with microservices architectures, event driven- systems, or streaming technologies. * Background in data modeling, data governance, or enterprise architecture. * Prior leadership in modernization initiatives or large-scale migrations. ## Description The Staff Database Engineer is a senior technical leader reporting to the Director, Business Intelligence. They will be responsible for architecting, optimizing, and scaling the organization's mission critical database systems. This role drives complex technical initiatives, leads -cross team architectural efforts, and ensures the -long term reliability, performance, and integrity of data platforms. The ideal candidate combines deep technical expertise with strong systems thinking, broad cross-functional influence, and the ability to deliver durable, -high impact solutions in a -fastmoving- environment., Database Architecture & Design * 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. Performance Engineering & Optimization * 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. Reliability, Scalability & Operations * 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. Data Governance, Security & Quality * 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. Cross Team- Leadership & Influence * 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. Automation & Tooling * Develop automation for deployment, maintenance, provisioning, and operational workflows. * Build internal tools that improve developer experience, reduce manual DBA workload, and standardize processes., * You are viewed as a domain expert and trusted technical advisor across engineering. * You proactively identify risks, scaling limits, architectural gaps, and long-term- opportunities. * Your work results in measurable improvements to performance, reliability, and developer efficiency. * You raise the technical bar for database engineering across the organization. ## Related Videos - [From Messy Queries to Scalable Systems - How Data Engineering actually works](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/100203-from-messy-queries-to-scalable-systems-how-data-engineering-actually-works) - [Data Science in Retail](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/586-data-science-in-retail) - [HTTP headers that make your website go faster](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/1676-http-headers-that-make-your-website-go-faster) - [MySQL Protocol Features You Should Be Aware Of](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/100267-mysql-protocol-features-you-should-be-aware-of) - [Making Data Warehouses fast. 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