Job Details

Demandbase helps B2B companies hit their revenue goals using fewer resources. By using the power of AI to identify and engage the accounts and buying groups most likely to purchase, our account-based technology unites sales and marketing around actionable insights and quick actions across systems and channels.

About the Role

Demandbase is hiring a Staff Database Platform Engineer to lead the evolution of how we manage databases in the cloud. Youll design platforms, automation, and guardrails that empower product teams to provision, run, and monitor their own databases across AWS accounts. This role focuses on building database reliability at scale with automation, observability, and compliance baked in, while staying hands-on with tuning and schema design.

Youll provide technical leadership to a global DBRE team, drive automation and best practices, and partner with engineering teams to move faster without compromising on stability.

The base compensation range for this position in the SF Bay Area is: $140,000 - $210,000. For other locations, ranges are based on the candidates primary work location. Actual compensation is determined by factors such as skillset, experience, and depth of experience.

What Youll Be Doing

Automation & Platform

• 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 reduce manual operations.
• Establish best practices for service-level databases in a microservices architecture (PostgreSQL, MySQL, DynamoDB, etc.).
• Guide architectural decisions for large-scale analytical and ETL workloads, choosing data technologies to balance performance, cost, and scalability.
• Implement observability solutions (Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog, OpenSearch) for database health at scale.

Support and Modernize Legacy Systems

• Ensure availability, performance, and security of existing large-scale monolithic databases powering critical platform functions.
• Lead efforts to reduce risk, cost, and complexity and prepare systems for migration or replacement.
• Guide safe transitions of workloads from shared monolithic environments toward decentralized, service-owned models.

Partner and Enable

• Collaborate with product/platform teams on schema design, query optimization, and database best practices.
• Provide tools, documentation, and onboarding support to empower teams to own and manage their databases.
• Mentor DBREs toward platform engineering and automation-first practices; shift-left ownership of databases.
• Participate in incident response and postmortems across monolithic and service-owned systems.

What Were Looking For

• 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 into 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 a passion for reliable monitoring/alerting frameworks.
• Demonstrated ability to mentor DBREs/DBAs into platform engineers and influence engineering culture toward shift-left ownership.
• Excellent communicator and collaborator able to bridge product, platform, DBRE, and data teams.

Nice to Have

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

Benefits & Inclusion

We offer a comprehensive benefits package designed to support health, well-being, and financial security. This includes paid premiums for Medical and Vision, mental wellness resources, flexible PTO, holidays, No Internal Meetings Fridays, and a 401(k) plan with disability and life insurance coverage.

Equality & Inclusion

Demandbase is committed to a diverse, inclusive workplace. We do not discriminate and encourage applicants from all backgrounds to apply. We will consider job applicants in a manner consistent with applicable law. We acknowledge the importance of privacy and handle personal data in accordance with our privacy policy.