Staff Devops Engineer II (DBOps) - Poland

Paid holidays and flexible, take-it-as-you-need-it scheduled time off

A culture built on innovation that values big ideas, no matter where they come from

A MacBook set up and ready from day one, plus a $500 stipend to design your ideal workspace

Central European Time (CET) hours to support a balanced schedule for our Poland-based team

Equity in a rapidly growing startup backed by top-tier VCs

🚀 About the role

As a Staff Devops Engineer II (DBOps), you are an expert communicator who bridges the gap between schema design, site reliability engineering, and infrastructure automation. You possess deep relational database expertise and are comfortable collaborating cross-functionally across engineering teams to optimize query performance, architecture, and system scalability. You take a high level of ownership over database health, proactively addressing scaling bottlenecks, sharding, and replication Topologies before they impact production. You bring an SRE mindset to continuously improve the observability, efficiency, and disaster recovery posture of core data systems.

Our team is passionate, empathetic, hard working, and above all else focused on improving the lives of our service professionals (our Pros). Our success is their success.

Compensation: 9 400 - 11 800 USD per month (B2B)

What You'll Do Each Day

Own the observability, monitoring, and alerting of production database clusters and replication topologies

Optimize database engine configurations for performance, stability, compliance, and security

Design scalable database schemas and storage architectures to support high-growth application workloads

Implement advanced data scaling strategies including sharding, partitioning, and high-availability clustering

Triage critical production database incidents and establish long-term preventative engineering solutions

Lead cross-functional initiatives for disaster recovery testing, data classification, and major engine upgrades

Build cloud infrastructure using Infrastructure as Code to automate deployment pipelines and environmentsCollaborate with software development teams on complex migrations, schema reviews, and query optimization

Participate in systemic architecture reviews to provide authoritative database engineering expertise

Automate operational tasks and third-party API integrations using modern scripting languages

Qualifications

5+ years of hands-on experience designing, implementing, and operating relational databases in production, plus 3+ years in DevOps, SRE, or software engineering

Production-scale expertise with relational technologies (i.e. MySQL, PostgreSQL) including backups, replication topologies, indexing, and partitioning

Advanced knowledge of database architecture, data modeling, query optimization, and high-availability / backup & recovery solutions

Extensive experience building cloud infrastructure using Infrastructure as Code (i.e. Terraform, CloudFormation, Pulumi, CDK) within public cloud environments (i.e. AWS)

Proficiency in programming languages (i.e. Python, Golang) to drive automation and tool integration

Strong operational familiarity with Linux operating systems, containerization (i.e. Docker), and container orchestrators (i.e. Kubernetes, ECS)

Hands-on experience with continuous integration and deployment pipelines (i.e. GitLab, TravisCI, CircleCI, Jenkins)

Demonstrated experience deploying monitoring and observability platforms (i.e. Datadog, New Relic)

Demonstrated ability to leverage AI tools to improve workflows, streamline execution, or enhance outputs

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or equivalent work experience

Polish and English languages fluency

What Will Help You Succeed

Exceptional breadth of interest shown through tangible, self-initiated ventures or deep community involvement; you love trying new things and may possess a demonstrated history of successfully pivoting or starting over in life and work

Strong systems thinking and the ability to balance long-term technical objectives with immediate operational priorities

Deep technical comfort explaining complex architectural trade-offs, cardinality, data types, and engine execution behaviors to other developers

A genuine passion for data-driven decision-making and troubleshooting distributed architectures

Familiarity with data streaming or ETL architectures (i.e. Kafka, Confluent Cloud)

Sounds interesting? We're waiting for your resume!

This role is open to candidates in Poland. The specific salary for the successful candidate will be determined based on permissible, non-discriminatory factors such as skills and experience.