Staff Software Engineer - Databases

The shape of it

In the posting’s own words

As a Staff Software Engineer, you’ll lead the design, development, and reliability of our global platform that manages schema and data changes at scale:

What it asks for · 5

• 12+ years of professional experience in backend systems or platform engineering.
• Experience in building platforms, infrastructure, or database engineering , especially with MySQL , TiDB .
• Track record of building and scaling mission-critical platforms supporting high-throughput, global services.
• Experience with schema migration frameworks, CI/CD automation and developer tooling.
• Champion of developer experience , creating clear, reliable, and user-friendly workflows.

What the job covers

• Schema Migration Platform: Architecting and maintaining automated schema change infrastructure for MySQL and TiDB, while implementing versioning, rollback, validation, and auditing for safe, predictable, and fast migrations.
• Scale, Reliability & Test Harness: Ensuring the platform operates across thousands of global databases with zero downtime, enhancing resilience, observability, and recovery, and building a test harness for migration and deployment validation.
• Developer Experience & CI/CD Integration: Designing intuitive tools and APIs for seamless schema and data change management, and embedding migration workflows into CI/CD pipelines to increase velocity and reduce friction.
• Schema & Data management: Designing infrastructure for safe, large-scale schema and data operations like backfills and purging. This includes ensuring backfill operations are monitored, retryable, minimally disruptive, and automated to align with schema/data evolution and maintain data integrity.
• Ensuring the scalability and reliability of schema and data operations across Databricks’ global footprint.
• Driving predictable deployments by architecting robust test harnesses and automation.
• Elevating the developer experience by building accessible, resilient tools that make complex migrations feel simple.
• Guaranteeing the integrity of both schema and data through safe, efficient backfill strategies.

Tools and skills named

Words the posting leans on

• schema10×
• data8×
• migration7×
• platform7×
• experience6×
• building4×
• ensuring4×
• global4×
• infrastructure4×
• automated3×
• backfill3×
• change3×
• ci/cd3×
• databases3×
• developer experience3×
• reliability3×

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