Techfellow Limited · 10 hours ago
Senior Database Platform Engineer | Multi-Strategy Investment Management Firm
Chicago, IL
Full-time
Hybrid
Senior Level
7+ years expTechfellow Limited is partnering with a global multi-strategy investment firm that is rethinking how databases are delivered, operated, and consumed across the business. As a Senior Database Platform Engineer, you’ll help design and operate a Kubernetes-based database platform that supports both transactional and analytical workloads at scale.
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Responsibilities
Design, build, and operate a database platform running on Kubernetes, focused on automation, resilience, and safe self-service
Engineer declarative lifecycle management for multiple database engines, covering provisioning, upgrades, failover, and recovery
Develop Kubernetes-native abstractions (operators, controllers, custom resources) to standardise how databases are consumed internally
Implement highly available and fault-tolerant architectures across relational, analytical, and cloud data platforms
Build and support modern analytical data patterns, including lakehouse-style architectures and federated query engines
Define and maintain schema management workflows using version-controlled, repeatable migration tooling
Establish GitOps-driven delivery pipelines for database infrastructure, configuration, and change management
Create tooling to migrate workloads from legacy VM-based systems or managed cloud services onto the internal platform
Embed security, access controls, and guardrails directly into the platform to ensure safe multi-tenant usage
Partner closely with application engineers, data teams, and infrastructure groups to align platform capabilities with real workloads
Qualification
Required
7+ years of experience in database engineering, platform engineering, or infrastructure roles operating data systems at scale
Strong hands-on expertise with PostgreSQL and SQL Server, alongside experience supporting cloud-native platforms such as Snowflake
Proven experience running stateful systems in production, with a strong understanding of availability, backup, recovery, and performance trade-offs
Practical knowledge of Kubernetes beyond basic usage - including stateful workloads, controllers, and operational patterns
Experience designing or operating lakehouse-style data platforms and query federation layers
Solid programming capability (Python and/or Go) used to build automation, tooling, and platform services
Experience working with Infrastructure-as-Code and Git-based delivery models
Familiarity with observability for data platforms - metrics, health signals, and failure detection
Confidence working across both transactional and analytical data systems, including modern columnar and key-value stores
A platform mindset: you think in terms of guardrails, repeatability, and long-term operability rather than one-off fixes
Comfortable operating in small, senior teams with high ownership and minimal hand-holding
Preferred
Exposure to Kubernetes operator development for databases or other stateful services
Background migrating legacy database estates into cloud-native or containerised platforms
Benefits
Hybrid Working
Company
Techfellow Limited
We partner with trading, investment and fintech firms who depend on high-calibre engineering to compete.
11-50 employees
Funding
Current Stage
Early StageCompany data provided by crunchbase