TensorWave
Staff Database Engineer
Remote · Remote · Staff · Full-time · Posted Jun 4, 2026
- Experience
- 8+ years of production database engineering, database administration, or database architecture experience.
- Visa sponsorship
- Offers are contingent upon verification of identity and authorization to work in the United States, as required by law.
About the job
Own database architecture, reliability, performance, automation, and incident response for TensorWave’s infrastructure and platform services.
What you'll do
- Design and operate database architecture, including high availability, replication, recovery, security, and lifecycle management.
- Improve database performance, observability, automation, and operational standards across infrastructure platforms such as Slurm and NetBox.
- Lead database incident response, root cause analysis, cross-team remediation, and engineering mentorship.
What they ask for
- 8+ years of production database engineering, administration, or architecture experience.
- Strong hands-on production experience with PostgreSQL and with MySQL, Percona, or equivalent relational database platforms.
- Experience designing and operating highly available databases, including replication, failover, backup, restore, and disaster recovery validation.
- Deep SQL performance tuning, strong Linux systems knowledge, and experience with production incidents and database monitoring.
Nice to have
- Experience with SlurmDBD, Slurm accounting databases, or HPC/AI infrastructure database workloads.
- Experience with NetBox or other infrastructure source-of-truth platforms.
Tools
PostgreSQL, MySQL, Percona, SlurmDBD, NetBox, Prometheus, Grafana, Ansible
AI focus
Supports databases and infrastructure platforms for AI compute and AI infrastructure workloads.
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