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Software Engineer, Storage
San Francisco +1 · On-site · Full-time · Posted Jun 28, 2026
- Location
- San Francisco
New York
About the job
Own and scale the databases, caches, and data-store strategy that support the company’s products and engineering teams.
What you'll do
- Design a partitioned, resilient data architecture and evolve the storage layer for growth.
- Instrument database queries, enforce guardrails, and help prevent problematic queries from reaching production.
- Own cache infrastructure and develop guidance for selecting and operating data stores.
What they ask for
- Deep experience with relational databases at scale, especially Postgres, MySQL, or similar OLTP systems.
- Experience with production database sharding, migration, or decomposition.
- Understanding of storage-engine tradeoffs and workload-appropriate data-store selection.
- Strong software engineering fundamentals and proactive attention to backups, monitoring, query performance, and capacity planning.
Tools
Postgres, MySQL
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