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Demandbase · 1 month ago

Staff Database Platform Engineer

positionSan Francisco, CA
timeFull-time
remoteOnsite
seniorityLead/Staff
date10+ years exp

Demandbase is the only pipeline AI platform that empowers GTM teams to automate growth at scale. They are seeking a Staff Database Platform Engineer to lead the evolution of database management in the cloud, focusing on automation, observability, and compliance while providing technical leadership to a global team.

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Responsibilities

Build the Database Platform of the Future: Design automation and self-service frameworks for provisioning, scaling, and securing databases across AWS (RDS, Aurora, DynamoDB) and other cloud-native stores
Develop Infrastructure-as-Code modules (Terraform, Helm, Gitlab CI/CD) to eliminate manual operations
Establish best practices for service-level databases in a microservices architecture (Postgres, MySQL, DynamoDB, etc.)
Evaluate and guide architectural decisions for large-scale analytical and ETL workloads — helping the company choose the right data technologies (e.g., RDS/Aurora, BigQuery, Iceberg or other cloud-native solutions) to balance performance, cost, and scalability
Implement observability solutions (Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog, OpenSearch) for database health at scale
Ensure availability, performance, and security of existing large-scale monolithic databases powering critical platform functions
Lead efforts to reduce risk, cost, and complexity in these systems while preparing them for migration or replacement
Guide safe transition of workloads from shared monolithic environments toward decentralized, service-owned models
Collaborate with product/platform teams on schema design, query optimization, and database best practices
Provide tools, documentation, and onboarding support that empower teams to safely own and manage their databases
Mentor DBREs to evolve from traditional DBA skillsets toward platform engineering and automation-first practices
Influence organizational culture toward shift-left ownership of databases
Participate in incident response/postmortems across both monolithic and service-owned systems

Qualification

Database reliabilityPlatform engineeringCloud infrastructureInfrastructure-as-CodeCloud-managed databasesPerformance tuningQuery optimizationSchema designLegacy database modernizationLinux skillsScripting PythonScripting ShellObservability stacksBig data familiarityMentoringCommunication skillsCollaboration skills

Required

10 years of experience in database reliability, platform engineering, or cloud infrastructure roles
Strong experience with Infrastructure-as-Code and automation (Terraform, Helm, GitLab CI/CD, Kubernetes Operators, etc.)
Proficiency with cloud-managed relational databases (PostgreSQL/MySQL on RDS/Aurora) and cloud-native databases (DynamoDB)
Proficiency with performance tuning, query optimization, and schema design
Experience modernizing and migrating legacy databases (including those used as ETL sources) into more scalable or fit-for-purpose systems, in partnership with data engineering/warehouse teams
Solid Linux skills and scripting (Python, Shell)
Hands-on experience with observability stacks (Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog, OpenSearch, or similar) and passionate about building reliable monitoring/alerting frameworks
Demonstrated ability to mentor DBREs/DBAs into platform engineers, and to influence engineering culture toward shift-left ownership of databases
Excellent communicator and collaborator — able to bridge product, platform, DBRE, and data teams

Preferred

Experience guiding organizations through monolithic-to-microservices or shared-to-service-owned database transitions
Familiarity with big data/streaming systems (Kafka, Spark, etc.) and their intersection with service-level databases

Benefits

Options for up to 100% paid Medical and Vision premiums for employees
A flexible PTO policy
Paid holidays
Access to mental health and wellness resources
A 401(k) with pre-tax, after tax, and roth options
Short-term/long-term disability
Life insurance
Other great benefits

Company

Demandbase

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Demandbase gives GTM teams the clarity and confidence to build pipeline that truly moves the business.
dateFounded in 2007
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San Francisco, California, USA
people-size501-1000 employees
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H1B Sponsorship

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2025 (4)
2024 (6)
2023 (8)
2022 (15)
2021 (4)
2020 (4)

Funding

Current Stage
Late Stage
Total Funding
$318M
Key Investors
Vista Credit PartnersSageview CapitalGreenspring Associates
2023-02-16Debt Financing· $175M
2017-05-25Series H· $65M
2015-07-15Series G· $30M

Leadership Team

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Gabe Rogol
Chief Executive Officer
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Chief Technology Officer - Advertising
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