Staff Database Reliability Engineer, Air
$160-240k
CAD $165,000 to $248,000.
Cloud-based storage for images and videos
Be an early applicant
Cloud-based storage for images and videos
201-500 employees
Be an early applicant
$160-240k
CAD $165,000 to $248,000.
201-500 employees
Company mission
To make creativity easy, fast and fun. Air rethink traditional cloud storage, and make it easier for companies to get from a brainstorm to the final deliverable.
Role
Who you are
- Experience: 5+ years using PostgreSQL and working with Distributed Database
- Technical Ability: Proficient in Postgres Database operations, tuning and query optimization. Familiar with database observability tooling and establishing best practices around health metric. Familiar with AWS Aurora or RDS
- Entrepreneurial Drive: You like to work in public, own problems end-to-end, and move with intentional speed - so your best ideas ship fast and make a visible dent
- Obsessed with Winning: Everyone at Air plays to win, says the hard thing, and progresses every day while building genuine relationships
What the job involves
- As a Staff Database Reliability Engineer, you will own the performance, reliability, and scaling strategy for our PostgreSQL Aurora infrastructure that powers creative workflows for leading brands.
- As a technical leader, you'll partner closely with backend engineering and leadership to architect scalable solutions, establish best-in-class database operations practices, and build the observability framework that keeps Air running at 99.99%+ uptime
- Own the health, performance, and availability of Air's PostgreSQL Aurora infrastructure
- Proactively optimize database parameters, indexes, and query patterns to maintain sub-100ms p95 response times
- Uplevel migration practices and tooling to ensure zero-downtime schema changes as the platform scales
- Establish and maintain comprehensive backup, recovery, and disaster recovery procedures with documented RTO/RPO targets
- Partner with backend engineers to implement database best practices in application code (connection pooling, query optimization, caching strategies)
- Develop multi-quarter roadmap to scale Air's database infrastructure to support 10x growth in asset volume and user activity
- Collaborate with backend engineers and product leadership to model data growth patterns and anticipate scaling inflection points
- Evaluate and implement horizontal scaling strategies (read replicas, sharding, partitioning) aligned with business needs
- Continuously assess AWS Aurora capabilities, PostgreSQL ecosystem innovations, and emerging database technologies for strategic advantage
- Design and implement database architecture that supports Air's AI-powered features and real-time creative workflows
- Create comprehensive monitoring, alerting, and reporting systems to maintain database reliability and inform data-driven infrastructure decisions
- Implement detailed instrumentation for database performance metrics (query latency, connection pool utilization, replication lag, disk I/O)
- Build automated alerting for anomalies in query performance, connection patterns, and resource utilization
- Create executive-level dashboards showing database health trends, capacity utilization, and cost efficiency
- Develop regular database health review cadence with engineering leadership to surface insights and drive continuous improvement
Our take
Every day, marketers waste countless hours organising, finding, approving, and sharing content — this mindless work gets in the way of the creative process. Air's product automates these tasks, giving creators back time to do what they do best: create.
Air works as a cloud collaboration platform that negates the need to move items to and from the cloud when working with visual content. Teams can use the platform to search, review, and manage all their content in one place. Users can migrate their content from Dropbox or hard drives, and once all assets are in Air, the platform automates the work and keeps the library organised.
Air's 2022 round of funding from Tiger Global Group and Headline is being used to build out more product features and expand the team. Further, over recent years that has been a rapid surge in the cloud collaboration market, which is forecast to surpass $100 billion by 2030. Air is therefore operating well in a market that is expected to see significant growth.
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Company
Funding (last 2 of 6 rounds)
Jan 2025
$35m
SERIES B
Jan 2022
$10m
EARLY VC
Total funding: $70.5m
Company benefits
- Air contributes 90% to medical, dental, and vision insurance and 75% to dependent coverage
- Employees also have life insurance, disability insurance, and membership to One Medical
- 401k program
- Commuter benefits
- Generous work from home stipend
- Professional development reimbursement
- Unlimited vacation days
Company HQ
Gowanus, NY
Leadership
Shane Hegde
(Co-Founder & CEO)Studied Science at Stanford. Co-Founder & CEO of Swap Mobile. An Investor at HPS Investment Partners. Chief Digital Strategist at REVOLT MEDIA & TV.
Tyler Strand
(Co-Founder & CTO / COO)Studied Computer Science at Stanford. Co-founder & CEO of hostess.fm. Worked for over a year at Beatport, from Product Manager to Director of Product. Was Partner & Director of Product Management at Postlight.
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