Weight Watchers ยท 2 weeks ago
Staff Cloud Database Engineer
United States
Full-time
Remote
Lead/Staff
$175K/yr - $195K/yr
8+ years expWeightWatchers is a global digital health company focused on redefining weight health and wellness through technology. They are seeking a Staff Cloud Database Engineer to design, develop, and manage enterprise-level database systems, ensuring secure and reliable access for millions of members.
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Responsibilities
Lead lifecycle management: schema design, migrations, replication, partitioning, upgrades, and DR planning
Architect, administer, and optimize high-availability PostgreSQL clusters supporting both OLTP and OLAP workloads
Automate processes to improve availability and scalability in production environments
Collaborate cross-functionally with application, SRE, and data engineering teams to align platform strategy
Support large-scale database instances across production, non-production, and development environments
Participate in rotational on-call and maintenance support for database infrastructure
Perform regular upgrades, patching, and vulnerability remediation
Support database scalability and future growth initiatives
Define and enforce best practices around query optimization, indexing, and performance tuning
Partner with InfoSec and Compliance teams to ensure security, privacy, and HIPAA/SOC2/GDPR alignment
Qualification
Required
Extensive hands-on experience (8+ years) managing mission-critical production workloads, with deep expertise in PostgreSQL, MySQL and MongoDB
Experience participating in or collaborating with distributed on-call teams supporting mission-critical systems (internal or external)
Expertise in database architecture, design, replication, clustering, HA/DR
Strong experience with Linux/Unix environments
Hands-on experience with AWS, GCP, or Azure cloud platforms
Proven ability to manage highly available clustered database services across multiple Linux flavors
Familiarity with infrastructure automation tools (CloudFormation, Terraform, Ansible)
Lead lifecycle management: schema design, migrations, replication, partitioning, upgrades, and DR planning
Architect, administer, and optimize high-availability PostgreSQL clusters supporting both OLTP and OLAP workloads
Automate processes to improve availability and scalability in production environments
Collaborate cross-functionally with application, SRE, and data engineering teams to align platform strategy
Support large-scale database instances across production, non-production, and development environments
Participate in rotational on-call and maintenance support for database infrastructure
Perform regular upgrades, patching, and vulnerability remediation
Support database scalability and future growth initiatives
Define and enforce best practices around query optimization, indexing, and performance tuning
Partner with InfoSec and Compliance teams to ensure security, privacy, and HIPAA/SOC2/GDPR alignment
Preferred
Knowledge of streaming technologies (Kafka) is preferred
Exposure to modern DevOps tooling and container orchestration (Kubernetes, Docker)
Benefits
Comprehensive benefits package
Annual bonus program
Company
Weight Watchers
Weight Watchers is the global leader in science-backed weight management, offering an integrated support system built for the GLP-1 era that combines scientific expertise, medication, cutting-edge technology, and human connection.
1001-5000 employees
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Funding
Current Stage
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Leadership Team
Felicia DellaFortuna
Chief Financial Officer
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