Database Engineer

Motive empowers physical operations with tools for safety, productivity, and profitability, serving 120,000+ customers across various industries.
Backend
Senior Software Engineer
Remote
501 - 1,000 Employees
7+ years of experience
Enterprise SaaS · Logistics

Description For Database Engineer

Motive is a rapidly growing enterprise SaaS company that's revolutionizing physical operations management across various industries. As a Database Engineer, you'll play a crucial role in managing and optimizing the company's extensive database infrastructure, primarily focused on PostgreSQL deployments. You'll be responsible for ensuring 99.99% SLAs while managing over 100 databases and various AWS managed services.

The role combines deep technical expertise in database management with strategic thinking about scalability and performance. You'll work closely with product teams, developers, and SREs to build robust database solutions that support Motive's growing customer base of 120,000+ organizations across transportation, logistics, construction, energy, and other sectors.

This position offers the opportunity to work with cutting-edge technologies in AWS, implement sophisticated database architectures, and solve complex challenges at scale. You'll be instrumental in maintaining and improving critical infrastructure that powers essential services for businesses across multiple industries.

The ideal candidate will bring strong PostgreSQL expertise, AWS experience, and a passion for database optimization and automation. You'll be part of a team that values technical excellence, automation, and reliability, while working in a remote-friendly environment that promotes diversity and inclusion.

This role is perfect for a senior database engineer who wants to make a significant impact on a platform that's transforming how physical operations are managed, while working with modern technologies and practices in a collaborative, growth-oriented environment.

Last updated 5 days ago

Responsibilities For Database Engineer

  • Design and implement high availability database architecture in AWS
  • Partner with developers and SREs to build and automate infrastructure provisioning
  • Monitor and improve database performance through maintenance and optimization
  • Collaborate with developers on query optimization
  • Automate database administration tasks
  • Plan and execute disaster recovery scenarios
  • Build database health dashboards and alerting
  • Perform Terraform deployments of database instances
  • Manage zero-downtime database upgrades and migrations
  • Work with Data and ML teams on Kafka and Snowflake integrations
  • Oversee database security policies and permissions management
  • Participate in on-call duty for production incidents

Requirements For Database Engineer

PostgreSQL
Kafka
MongoDB
MySQL
Redis
  • B.S. or M.S. in Computer Science or related field, or equivalent experience
  • 7+ years of experience working with PostgreSQL
  • Experience with mission-critical production PostgreSQL databases
  • Solid understanding of PostgreSQL database architecture
  • AWS database services experience (RDS/Aurora)
  • Experience with high-availability, backup and recovery solutions
  • Advanced knowledge of query tuning and optimization
  • Experience with AWS provisioning tools (Terraform, CloudFormation, Ansible)
  • Experience with monitoring tools (Datadog, New Relic, Sumo Logic)
  • Experience with connection pooling tools (Pgbouncer, RDS Proxy)

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