Ruby Labs
Technology
DatabaseEngineer
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“Database Engineer at Ruby Labs. Skills: Database ownership, Performance optimization, Search solutions, Analytics and logging. Own and operate AWS Aurora. Design and evolve schemas”
Industry & Context.
Performance issues investigation; Complex performance issues resolution
What They're Looking For.
Must Have
PostgreSQL in production, Manage large databases, Indexing strategies, Query planners, Transactions, isolation levels, Locking, AWS-based infrastructure, AWS Aurora experience
Nice to Have
Payments experience, Billing experience, Fintech experience, Financial systems experience, Analytical databases familiarity, OpenSearch familiarity, Data ingestion familiarity, Multi-tenant systems data models, Event-driven architectures understanding, Data pipelines understanding, AWS certifications
What You'll Do.
Own and operate AWS Aurora
Design and evolve schemas
Implement table partitioning
Implement advanced indexing
Implement query optimization
Handle millions of records
Maintain predictable performance
Optimize production metrics
Resolve lock contention
Resolve vacuum issues
Resolve connection pool saturation
Resolve long-running queries
Prevent performance regressions
Design high-performance search
Implement search strategies
Decide data placement
Enable real-time insights
Ensure data integrity
Ensure data consistency
Define database health metrics
Monitor database health
Execute schema migrations
Participate in incident analysis
Work in disaster-recovery
How You'll Work.
Team & Collaboration
Backend engineers; Product teams
Full Job Description
ABOUT US Ruby Labs is a leading tech company that creates and operates innovative consumer products. We offer a diverse range of opportunities across the health, education, and entertainment industries. Our innovative teams are driving the future of consumer-led products, and we're always looking for passionate individuals to join us. Learn more about our story at: https://rubylabs.com/about-us/ ABOUT THE ROLE We are building a high-scale payment orchestration system that processes millions of financial transactions every month across multiple payment providers, regions, and products. Our platform operates at the intersection of payments, billing, subscriptions, analytics, and internal CRM tooling, where data correctness, performance, and reliability are mission-critical. As our transaction volume and customer base continue to grow rapidly, our database layer has become one of the most important parts of the system. We are looking for a strong Database Engineer who will own, scale, and evolve our data infrastructure, ensuring it remains fast, reliable, and ready for long-term growth. You will be joining a high-talent, fully remote engineering organization with strong backend, infrastructure, and product teams. We value ownership, technical excellence, and pragmatic decision-making. Engineers at RubyLabs work on real scale, real money, and real impact. As a Database Engineer at RubyLabs, you will be responsible for designing, operating, and optimizing databases in a high-volume payments environment. This role goes far beyond basic CRUD operations — you will work with large datasets, complex queries, performance bottlenecks, migrations on massive tables, and analytics pipelines. You will collaborate closely with backend engineers and product teams to ensure our data layer supports both transactional workloads and analytical use cases, including internal CRM search and observability. KEY RESPONSIBILITIES Database Ownership & Scalability - Own and operate AWS Aurora (Po
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