Staff Database Engineer

Job Description

Company: TensorWave
Location: Las Vegas, NV (Remote)
Workplace Type: Remote
Employment Type: Full-time

About the Role

TensorWave is seeking a Staff Database Engineer to join their growing team during an exciting phase of expansion. In this role, you will 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.

What You’ll Do / Key Responsibilities

• Database Architecture & Platform Ownership: Design and own database architecture for critical infrastructure and platform services, define standard database patterns for high availability, replication, failover, backup and restore, and point-in-time recovery, and establish schema and indexing standards.
• PostgreSQL, MySQL, and Database Reliability: Operate and improve production database environments across PostgreSQL, MySQL, and Percona, owning their complete lifecycle, troubleshooting performance bottlenecks, and driving root cause analysis for incidents.
• Slurm, NetBox, and Infrastructure Data Systems: Serve as the senior database engineering owner for SlurmDBD, accounting data, and NetBox source-of-truth systems, ensuring long-term operational reliability and data integrity.
• Performance Engineering & Observability: Build deep database observability using Prometheus, Grafana, PMM, and native statistics, establishing performance baselines and alerting standards for critical database platforms.
• Automation and Operational Maturity: Create database automation patterns integrated with existing infrastructure tooling, contributing modules to Ansible and CI/CD pipelines for provisioning, backups, and health checks.
• Incident Response & Engineering Leadership: Act as the technical lead for major database incidents, mentor L4 and L5 engineers on database operations and SQL troubleshooting, and provide senior technical review for database changes.

Requirements & Qualifications

• 8+ years of production database engineering, database administration, or database architecture experience.
• Strong hands-on experience with PostgreSQL in production environments.
• Strong hands-on experience with MySQL, Percona, or equivalent relational database platforms.
• Experience designing and operating highly available database systems, including replication, failover, backup, restore, and disaster recovery validation.
• Deep SQL performance tuning experience, including execution plan analysis, index design, query rewrite, schema optimization, and lock contention troubleshooting.
• Strong Linux systems knowledge and experience supporting production incidents with root cause analysis.
• Ability to define standards, influence architecture, and mentor other engineers without requiring direct management authority.

Preferred / Bonus Qualifications (if applicable)

• Experience with SlurmDBD, Slurm accounting databases, or HPC/AI infrastructure database workloads.
• Experience with NetBox or other infrastructure source-of-truth platforms.
• Experience with Percona XtraDB Cluster, ProxySQL, or advanced MySQL/Percona architectures.
• Experience with Prometheus, Grafana, PMM, Splunk, or similar observability platforms.
• Experience with MongoDB, Oracle, SQL Server, or other secondary database platforms.
• Experience with database automation using Ansible, Terraform, or CI/CD systems.

Benefits & Perks (if applicable)

• Stock Options
• 100% paid Medical, Dental, and Vision insurance for Employees
• Company Health Savings Account Contributions
• 100% paid Short Term and Long Term Disability Insurance
• Life and Voluntary Supplemental Insurance Options
• Flexible Spending Account and 401(k)
• Employee Assistance Program
• Flexible PTO and Paid Holidays
• Parental Leave and various in-office perks

TensorWave is an Equal Opportunity Employer.