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Agent guide: [/agents.md](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/agents.md). --- # Staff Database Engineer - **Company:** The Multi - **Location:** United States (Remote available) - **Experience:** Expert - **Salary:** $195,000.0 - $227,500.0 - **Contract:** Permanent contract - **Skills:** Big Data, Configuration Management, Databases, Data Infrastructure, Data Recovery, Linux, Disaster Recovery, Django Web Framework, Failover, PostgreSQL, Operational Databases, Reliability Engineering, Runbook, Web Application Frameworks, Backup and Restore, Real Time Systems, System Availability, Database Performance, Indexer - **Published:** August 3, 2026 - **Apply:** https://www.indeed.com/viewjob?jk=40835be688af20ab ## About the Role What You Bring * 10+ years of hands-on experience operating PostgreSQL in large-scale, business-critical production environments. * Deep knowledge of PostgreSQL reliability, including replication, failover, backup, recovery, and high availability. * Experience in preventing, diagnosing, and resolving complex production database incidents. * Experience in 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 an understanding of how infrastructure affects database performance and reliability. * Ability to automate operational work through scripting, configuration management, or infrastructure tooling. * Experience building monitoring, alerting, runbooks, and reliable incident-response practices. * Strong communication and judgment, with the ability to work effectively across SRE and product engineering teams. Nice to Have * Experience with Patroni, PgBouncer, or comparable PostgreSQL high-availability and connection-pooling technologies. * Experience designing or testing multi-region database recovery strategies. * Familiarity with infrastructure-as-code, configuration management, and modern observability platforms. * Experience building PostgreSQL operational knowledge within an SRE or infrastructure organization. * Experience supporting high-traffic consumer platforms, real-time systems, or revenue-critical transaction flows. * Experience with the Python Django web framework. ## Description We are looking for a Staff Database Engineer to take primary ownership of the reliability, availability, and recoverability of Chaturbate's large PostgreSQL environment. Our PostgreSQL estate operates at significant scale, spans multiple production clusters, holds terabytes of data, and has tables containing billions of rows. These databases support critical user experiences and revenue-generating features, and must be extremely reliable, support rapid recovery capabilities, and provide consistently high performance. You will work as part of the Site Reliability Engineering team to prevent database incidents, strengthen high availability and disaster recovery, improve confidence in our backup and restore procedures, and ensure that maintenance and upgrades can be completed safely. When incidents occur, you will provide the PostgreSQL expertise needed to diagnose complex failures, restore service, and prevent recurrence. This is an opportunity to take meaningful ownership of a business-critical database environment at substantial scale. You will have the autonomy to identify reliability risks, establish operational standards, influence architecture, and shape how PostgreSQL is operated as the platform continues to grow. This is a hands-on engineering role focused on building resilient data infrastructure, not just administering it. What You'll Do * Own the day-to-day reliability and operational health of Chaturbate's PostgreSQL environment. * Identify and proactively address database reliability, performance, and scalability risks before they impact production. * Improve high availability, replication, backup, restore, and disaster recovery capabilities. * Lead the response to database incidents and implement improvements that prevent them from recurring. * Plan and execute PostgreSQL upgrades, migrations, and maintenance with minimal service disruption. * Monitor and tune database performance across high-volume, latency-sensitive, high-write workloads. * Build better observability, alerting, automation, and operational runbooks in partnership with SRE. * Plan for continued growth in data volume, storage, compute, WAL generation, replication bandwidth and latency needs. * Review database architecture for new products and significant engineering changes, providing guidance on schema design, queries, migrations, scalability, and operational risk. * Develop operational standards, automation, and best practices for PostgreSQL across the engineering organization. * Document the environment and help SRE engineers build stronger PostgreSQL knowledge. * Participate in an on-call rotation for critical database incidents. * Analyze query execution plans, indexing strategy, autovacuum behavior, table bloat, checkpoint tuning, and storage efficiency for multi-terabyte database clusters. ## Related Videos - [Optimizing Discovery: PostgreSQL's Role in Transforming GetYourGuide's Search](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/1647-optimizing-discovery-postgresql-s-role-in-transforming-getyourguide-s-search) - [Docker network without Docker](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/1418-docker-network-without-docker) - [Technical Documentation - How Can I Write Them Better and Why Should I Care?](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/681-technical-documentation-how-can-i-write-them-better-and-why-should-i-care) - [Discover the open source trio you didn’t expect: .NET and PostgreSQL on Linux](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/2042-discover-the-open-source-trio-you-didn-t-expect-net-and-postgresql-on-linux) - [Bridging AI and Nomad: a Go-based MCP Server for Cluster Control](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/2063-bridging-ai-and-nomad-a-go-based-mcp-server-for-cluster-control) - [Dynamic Entities in .NET: Building Low-Code Systems on Top of Entity Framework Core](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/100218-dynamic-entities-in-net-building-low-code-systems-on-top-of-entity-framework-core) ## Related Articles - [Dev Digest 168: Hacking Postgres, Blocking Meta and Fixing CSS](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/588-dev-digest-168-hacking-postgres-blocking-meta-and-fixing-css) - [How We Built a Worry-Free System That Runs for 10+ Years – And What We’d Do Again](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/751-how-we-built-a-worry-free-system-that-runs-for-10-years-and-what-we-d-do-again) - [Data Engineer Salary UK](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/253-data-engineer-salary-uk) - [Highest Paying Tech Companies for Developers](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/220-highest-paying-tech-companies-for-developers) - [Where To Find Software Engineering Jobs](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/396-where-to-find-software-engineering-jobs) - [Top Big Data Technologies That You Need to Know](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/108-top-big-data-technologies-that-you-need-to-know)