Database Engineer, Scale AI

• We’re looking for a database engineer with deep experience building and scaling both structured and unstructured database platforms supporting distributed systems, data-intensive applications, and machine learning infrastructure
• You have a growth mindset and are comfortable learning new technologies
• 5+ years of industry experience as a database engineer post graduation
• Engineering experience with building real-time and distributed system architecture
• Experience designing and self hosting databases on industry standard public cloud platforms
• Deep familiarity with design, architecture, optimization, and tuning multiple database platforms such as MongoDB, Postgres, MySQL, DynamoDB, Redis
• Deep familiarity with SQL query optimization, database indexing, scalability (partitioning/sharding), and replication
• Experience developing and optimizing backup and restore functionality to meet RTO goals
• Intermediate experience in at least one coding language: Typescript, Python, Go, Java, C++ (note that we are mostly language-agnostic and are open to using whatever is the best tech for the problem at hand)
• Experience working with Docker, Kubernetes, and Infra-as-Code (e.g. Terraform); bonus points for experience supporting GPU/ML workloads

Desirable

• The Platform team is responsible for building the core abstractions and infrastructure on which the products can be built and iterated rapidly
• The team owns how data flows throughout the Scale platform
• Build and mature database foundations for Scale, leveraging industry-standard platforms
• Collaborate with stakeholders across the organization, such as software developers, platform engineers, machine learning scientists, customer operations, etc
• Own services or systems and define their long-term health goals, while also improving the health of surrounding components
• Mentor other engineers and become deeply involved in architectural design and database best-practices
• Improve our high engineering standards, tooling, and process
• Work directly with our engineering and sales teams to create backend database solutions to meet their challenging data and security needs
• Work with our Security Team on security compliance, pen tests and mitigations that improve security across Scale
• Build systems capable of handling millions of frames of data every day, making it available to both our workforce and our internal teams with high availability