Chainguard
Staff Platform Database Engineer
$205K–$231K
United States - Remote +1 · Remote · Staff · Full-time · Posted Sep 22, 2026
- Location
- United States - Remote
Remote - US - Experience
- 8+ years building and operating production database and platform infrastructure in modern cloud environments; Staff-level experience leading complex technical initiatives and influencing architecture across multiple engineering teams.
About the job
Defines and builds Chainguard’s company-wide database platform strategy, tooling, and operating practices to improve resilience, availability, and global scale.
What you'll do
- Assess database systems and prioritize a roadmap to reduce operational risk and improve resilience.
- Design and implement database reliability capabilities, including replication, high availability, backups, disaster recovery, migrations, and capacity planning.
- Build production tooling and standards, and lead cross-team initiatives for consistent database operations.
What they ask for
- Strong PostgreSQL and MySQL experience, including production database infrastructure.
- Production experience with replication, high availability, backups and recovery, migrations, capacity planning, and geographically distributed databases.
- Experience operating globally available, high-scale database systems in cloud environments, including AWS and Google Cloud; strong server-side Linux experience.
- Proficiency programming in Go and experience writing production code and infrastructure tooling.
Nice to have
- Deep knowledge of database internals.
- Experience with Terraform or other infrastructure-as-code tooling, or running stateful systems on Kubernetes.
Pay
$205,000 — $231,000 USD (base salary)
Tools
PostgreSQL, MySQL, AWS, Google Cloud, Linux, Go, Terraform, Kubernetes
AI focus
Experience applying AI or automation to database operations and infrastructure workflows.
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