Database & Infrastructure Engineer

We process millions of files per day and store hundreds of millions of media records.

Your job is to make our data layer world-class.

You will:

• Optimize and scale our PostgreSQL (Supabase) infrastructure
• Design indexing, partitioning, and query strategies for large-scale media datasets
• Improve performance across ingestion, enrichment, and retrieval pipelines
• Build internal tools for querying and auditing large datasets
• Create customer-ready dataset sample packs
• Design and automate dataset exports and delivery pipelines (S3, secure transfers, custom formats)
• Work across backend, ML, and product teams to support new features

• Strong PostgreSQL expertise (indexing, partitioning, performance tuning)
• Experience working with large datasets (100M+ records preferred)
• Deep understanding of storage systems (S3 or similar object storage)
• Strong backend experience (TypeScript, Python, or similar)
• Comfort building internal tooling and automation scripts
• Ability to move between database, backend, and infrastructure work

Bonus:

• Experience with data pipelines (ETL, transformation layers)
• Experience with vector databases (pgvector, FAISS, Pinecone)
• Experience delivering structured datasets to enterprise customers
• DevOps experience (CI/CD, infra automation)
• Experience working with media-heavy systems

CURRENT STACK

Backend

• PostgreSQL (Supabase) - 188M+ media files
• S3 storage
• Deno / TypeScript edge functions
• Python ML pipelines

Frontend

• SwiftUI (migrating to Flutter)

• Base salary: $150,000 - $250,000
• $150,000 - $350,000 equity

We move fast and work hard.

If you’re excited to build the world’s largest consumer app, let’s talk!

GROWTH OPPORTUNITY

You’ll join a team operating at the frontier of applied AI data infrastructure.

In this role, you’ll have the opportunity to:

• Own core systems that power one of the largest human data networks in the world
• Design infrastructure that directly influences what data trains next-generation AI models
• Build at real scale - millions of uploads per day, adversarial environments, global contributors
• Ship alongside a team that has built marketplaces, AI systems, and products used by millions