Cartesia · 18 hours ago
Software Engineer, Databases
*HQ - San Francisco, CA
Full-time
Onsite
Mid, Senior Level
$180K/yr - $250K/yr
4+ years expCartesia is a pioneering company focused on building the next generation of AI, with a mission to create interactive intelligence. They are seeking a Software Engineer, Databases to architect their data systems for scalability, implement data governance, and provide secure database tooling for both engineers and non-engineers.
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Responsibilities
Develop and evolve database platforms to support 100x+ scale while preserving strong guarantees around uptime, latency, and correctness
Design data storage architectures that operate smoothly across AWS, GCP, on-prem / first-party infrastructure, third-party deployments, and additional environments
Enable faster development across the company by providing engineers and non-engineers alike with high-quality, reliable database tooling and primitives
Create and deploy secure access control mechanisms so sensitive data is only accessible by authorized users
Build scalable data governance systems for permissions, auditing, and compliance (e.g., data residency), including IAM policies, ACLs, and security controls used across thousands of users and services
Qualification
Required
Strong proficiency with cloud platforms such as AWS, GCP, or Azure, along with infrastructure-as-code tooling like Terraform
A track record of taking database systems through periods of extreme growth at fast-scaling organizations
4+ years of industry experience, including 2+ years owning or leading large, complex technical initiatives as an engineer or tech lead
Deep hands-on experience operating and scaling databases such as PostgreSQL, MySQL, DynamoDB, or comparable systems
Experience designing and running database infrastructure in multi-cloud or hybrid environments
Familiarity with database automation, orchestration, and operational tooling at significant scale
Preferred
Experience working with Redis, Temporal, vector databases, or asynchronous/background job systems
Strong understanding of database internals and data systems — including storage engines, indexing, query execution, and related topics — is a bonus but not required
Previous experience at organizations with a strong reputation for database or data-infrastructure engineering
Company
Cartesia
Cartesia provides real-time multimodal intelligence for all devices.
11-50 employees
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Funding
Current Stage
Early StageTotal Funding
$86MKey Investors
Kleiner PerkinsIndex Ventures
2025-03-11Series A· $64M
2024-12-12Seed· $22M
Leadership Team
Karan Goel
Founder / CEO
Arjun Desai
Co-Founder
Recent News
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