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We've built a versatile cloud platform that eliminates infrastructure barriers, empowering builders to focus on innovation instead of fighting their stack. Because breakthrough AI should move at the speed of ideas, not infrastructure.\nAbout the Role\nWe’re looking for a Staff Database Engineer to join our team during an exciting phase of growth. In this role, you’ll be responsible for database architecture, database reliability, infrastructure-adjacent database platforms, performance engineering, observability, automation, operational maturity, incident response, and engineering leadership, working closely with cross-functional partners to support business objectives while upholding our standards for excellence, collaboration, and impact.\nWhat You’ll Do\nDatabase Architecture & Platform Ownership\nDesign and own database architecture for critical infrastructure and platform services, including PostgreSQL-backed internal platforms, Slurm accounting and operational databases, NetBox and infrastructure source-of-truth databases, custom internal applications and automation services, observability, inventory, and platform metadata systems, future database-backed control plane services.\n\nDefine standard database patterns for high availability, replication, failover, backup and restore, point-in-time recovery, performance 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database-related incidents and convert findings into durable engineering improvements.\n\nSlurm, NetBox, and Infrastructure Data Systems\nServe as the senior database engineering owner for infrastructure-adjacent database platforms, including Slurm and NetBox.\n\nFor Slurm environments, support and improve database architecture related to SlurmDBD, accounting data, job history, reporting queries, performance and retention strategy, database scaling, backup and recovery, long-term operational reliability\n\nFor NetBox and source-of-truth systems, support PostgreSQL performance, database lifecycle planning, backup and restore validation, data integrity, schema-impact review, integration patterns with automation systems\n\nPartner with DevOps, Infrastructure, MLOps, and Platform Engineering teams to ensure database-backed systems are designed to scale as the environment grows.\n\nPerformance Engineering & Observability\nBuild deep database observability beyond basic dashboards.\n\nDevelop and maintain visibility into query performance, execution plans, index usage, replication health, locking behavior, buffer/cache efficiency, storage latency, connection pool behavior, OS-level database bottlenecks\n\nUse tools such as PostgreSQL native statistics, MySQL/Percona tooling, Prometheus, Grafana, PMM, Query logs, slow query logs, eBPF/BCC or equivalent low-level profiling tools, Linux performance tooling\n\nCreate performance baselines and alerting standards for critical database platforms.\n\nIdentify recurring database failure patterns and build preventive monitoring, automation, and operational guardrails.\n\nAutomation, Standards, and Operational Maturity\nCreate database automation patterns that can be integrated with existing infrastructure tooling.\n\nPartner with DevOps and Infrastructure Engineering to automate database provisioning, configuration standards, backup verification, health checks, replication checks, user and permission management, upgrade workflows, monitoring deployment, runbook-driven recovery procedures\n\nContribute database-specific modules, roles, or workflows to Ansible, CI/CD pipelines, or internal automation platforms where appropriate.\n\nDefine production database readiness standards for new services before they are promoted into critical environments.\n\nIncident Response & Engineering Leadership\nAct as the technical lead for major database incidents.\n\nOwn or support triage, root cause analysis, cross-team coordination, customer or stakeholder impact analysis, postmortems, corrective action plans, long-term remediation\n\nMentor L4 and L5 engineers on database operations, SQL troubleshooting, HA design, incident response, and performance analysis.\n\nProvide senior technical review for database-impacting changes across infrastructure and platform teams.\n\nWho You Are\nRequired Qualifications\n8+ years of production database engineering, database administration, or database architecture experience\n\nStrong hands-on experience with PostgreSQL in production environments\n\nStrong hands-on experience with MySQL, Percona, or equivalent relational database platforms\n\nExperience designing and operating highly available database systems\n\nExperience with replication, failover, backup, restore, and disaster recovery validation\n\nDeep SQL performance tuning experience, including execution plan analysis, index design, query rewrite, schema optimization, lock contention troubleshooting, storage and I/O analysis\n\nStrong Linux systems knowledge\n\nExperience supporting production incidents and performing root cause analysis\n\nExperience building or improving database monitoring and observability\n\nAbility to work across infrastructure, DevOps, platform, and application engineering teams\n\nAbility to define standards, influence architecture, and mentor other engineers without requiring direct management authority\n\nPreferred Qualifications\nExperience with SlurmDBD, Slurm accounting databases, or 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We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees. We do not discriminate on the basis of any protected status under applicable law.\nReasonable Accommodations\nTensorWave provides reasonable accommodations in accordance with applicable laws. 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