Database Engineer

Face to Face interview at location Dallas TX Job Title: Senior Database Engineer (PostgreSQL) Location: Dallas TX We are looking for a skilled Database Engineer with strong expertise in PostgreSQL to help design, optimize, and maintain our database infrastructure. You will play an important role in ensuring the high performance, availability, and scalability of our database environments while supporting development and operational teams. Drive best practices and consistency of database principles implemented across all the product areas. This role applies solid PostgreSQL and data engineering skills to support database design decisions, deliver reliable database services, and collaborate closely with engineering and product teams. Essential Duties & Responsibilities • Contribute to the design and implementation of PostgreSQL database systems, ensuring they are scalable, maintainable, and aligned with business goals. • Optimize PostgreSQL performance through query tuning, indexing strategies, and configuration adjustments. • Manage database replication, backup, and recovery processes using PostgreSQL-native tools and third-party solutions. • Monitor database health and proactively address performance bottlenecks and system anomalies. • Collaborate with application developers to design efficient data models and support application performance. • Ensure database security, access control, and compliance with data governance policies. • Support PostgreSQL upgrades, patching, and migration efforts across environments. • Implement and maintain observability using Prometheus/Grafana dashboards, alerting policies, and centralized logging. • Partner with operational and infrastructure teams to ensure database reliability, capacity planning, and smooth day-to-day operations across environments. • Create and maintain runbooks, participate in on-call rotations, triage incidents, and contribute to blameless post-incident reviews. • Participate in process-improvement initiatives to enhance productivity, collaboration, and data quality within the engineering team.