TensorWave
Engineering
StaffDatabaseEngineer
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“Staff Database Engineer at TensorWave. Skills: Database architecture, Database reliability, Performance engineering, Incident response. Design database architecture. Own database architecture”
Industry & Context.
Troubleshooting; Root cause analysis; Performance tuning; Lock contention troubleshooting; Storage I/O analysis; Debugging
What They're Looking For.
Must Have
8+ years production database engineering, 8+ years database administration, 8+ years database architecture, Hands-on PostgreSQL production experience, Hands-on MySQL experience, Hands-on Percona experience, Experience designing HA database systems, Experience operating HA database systems, Experience with replication, Experience with failover, Experience with backup, Experience with restore, Experience with disaster recovery validation, Deep SQL performance tuning, Execution plan analysis, Index design, Query rewrite, Schema optimization, Lock contention troubleshooting, Storage I/O analysis, Linux systems knowledge, Experience supporting production incidents, Experience performing root cause analysis, Experience building database monitoring, Experience improving database monitoring, Experience building database observability, Experience improving database observability, Ability to define standards, Ability to influence architecture, Ability to mentor engineers
Nice to Have
SlurmDBD experience, Slurm accounting databases experience, HPC infrastructure database workloads experience, AI infrastructure database workloads experience, NetBox experience, Infrastructure source-of-truth platforms experience, Percona XtraDB Cluster experience, ProxySQL experience, Advanced MySQL architectures experience, Advanced Percona architectures experience, PostgreSQL HA tooling experience, PostgreSQL replication architectures experience, Prometheus experience, Grafana experience, PMM experience, Splunk experience, eBPFCC experience, perf experience, strace experience, Low-level Linux diagnostic tooling experience, Databases for SaaS experience, Databases for cloud experience, Databases for AI infrastructure experience, Databases for large multi-tenant platforms experience, MongoDB experience, Oracle experience, SQL Server experience, Database automation experience, Ansible experience, Terraform experience, CI/CD systems experience, Internal tooling experience, Zero-downtime migrations experience, Major version upgrades experience, Production database consolidation experience
What You'll Do.
Design database architecture
Own database architecture
Define standard database patterns
Establish database design standards
Review indexing strategy
Review service ownership boundaries
Review production readiness requirements
Operate production database environments
Improve production database environments
Own database system lifecycle
Provision database systems
Configure database systems
Upgrade database systems
Design replication topology
Tune database performance
Validate database backups
Test disaster recovery
Decommission database systems
Create database documentation
Create database runbooks
Troubleshoot production database issues
Resolve production database issues
Drive root cause analysis
Convert findings into improvements
Serve as senior database owner
Support Slurm database architecture
Improve Slurm database architecture
Support accounting data
Improve accounting data
Support reporting queries
Improve reporting queries
Support database scaling
Improve database scaling
Support backup and recovery
Improve backup and recovery
Support long-term reliability
Improve long-term reliability
Support NetBox performance
Improve NetBox performance
Support database lifecycle planning
Support backup and restore validation
Support data integrity
Support integration patterns
Ensure database-backed systems scale
Build deep database observability
Develop database visibility
Maintain database visibility
Monitor query performance
Monitor execution plans
Monitor replication health
Monitor locking behavior
Monitor buffer efficiency
Monitor cache efficiency
Monitor storage latency
Monitor connection pool behavior
Monitor OS-level bottlenecks
Use PostgreSQL native statistics
Use low-level profiling tools
Use Linux performance tooling
Create performance baselines
Create alerting standards
Identify failure patterns
Build preventive monitoring
Build operational guardrails
Create database automation patterns
Integrate automation with tooling
Automate database provisioning
Automate configuration standards
Automate backup verification
Automate health checks
Automate replication checks
Automate user management
Automate permission management
Automate upgrade workflows
Automate monitoring deployment
Automate runbook procedures
Contribute database modules
Contribute database roles
Contribute database workflows
Define production readiness standards
Act as technical lead
Support root cause analysis
Coordinate cross-team
Analyze customer impact
Analyze stakeholder impact
Support corrective action plans
Support long-term remediation
Mentor engineers on operations
Mentor engineers on SQL troubleshooting
Mentor engineers on HA design
Mentor engineers on incident response
Mentor engineers on performance analysis
Provide senior technical review
How You'll Work.
Team & Collaboration
Cross-functional partners; DevOps teams; Infrastructure teams; MLOps teams; Platform Engineering teams; Infrastructure teams; Platform teams
Process & Methodology
CI/CD pipelines
Full Job Description
About TensorWave Our mission is simple: deliver seamless, secure, reliable, and resilient AI compute at scale. 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. About the Role We’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. What You’ll Do DATABASE ARCHITECTURE & PLATFORM OWNERSHIP - Design 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. - Define standard database patterns for high availability, replication, failover, backup and restore, point-in-time recovery, performance baselining, capacity planning, upgrade lifecycle management, access control and operational security. - Establish database design standards for new internal platforms, including schema review, indexing strategy, query design, service ownership boundaries, and production readiness requirements. POSTGRESQL, MYSQL, AND DATABASE RELIABILITY - Operate and improve production database environments across PostgreSQL, MySQL, Percona, and adjacent systems. - Own the lifecycle of database systems, including provisioning, configuration, version upgrades,
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