[Hiring] Staff Database Engineer II @Housecall Pro

Role Description

As a Staff Database Engineer I within our Site Reliability Engineering team, you improve the performance, reliability, security, and scalability of our database systems. You design and maintain resilient data solutions, optimize database usage patterns, and help engineering teams make sound decisions about schema design, queries, migrations, and integrations.

You apply deep database expertise to complex production challenges and contribute to system design, cloud architecture, continuous delivery, and business continuity practices. You identify risks, resolve recurring issues, and develop solutions that improve long-term maintainability. You provide thoughtful technical guidance, contribute to design reviews, and help engineers adopt effective database practices.

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 do each day:

• Design, build, and maintain secure, reliable, and scalable database schemas and storage systems
• Optimize MySQL and PostgreSQL databases for performance, stability, security, and efficient resource use
• Develop and implement database scaling strategies, including replication, partitioning, and sharding
• Partner with engineering teams to improve schema designs, queries, data migrations, and application integrations
• Monitor and troubleshoot production databases, resolving issues that affect availability, performance, or data integrity
• Analyze database incidents, identify root causes, and implement corrective and preventative solutions
• Contribute database expertise to architecture and design reviews for new systems and enhancements
• Support cross-functional initiatives involving disaster recovery, data classification, software upgrades, ETL, security, and compliance
• Establish and promote effective practices for database observability, high availability, backup, recovery, and maintainability
• Evaluate emerging database technologies and practices that may improve the scalability, reliability, or efficiency of our systems

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience designing, implementing, and managing relational database systems in complex production environments
• Experience in database engineering, DevOps, software engineering, site reliability engineering, or a related technical field
• Deep knowledge of database architecture, data modeling, indexing, transactions, constraints, and query optimization
• Hands-on experience optimizing and supporting MySQL, PostgreSQL, or comparable relational database technologies
• Experience with database backup and recovery, high availability, replication, partitioning, and scaling strategies
• Knowledge of database security practices, access controls, data protection, and compliance requirements
• Experience diagnosing production database issues and developing durable solutions that reduce recurring risk
• Familiarity with infrastructure-as-code tools such as Terraform, CloudFormation, or Pulumi
• Strong communication skills with the ability to explain database concepts and technical trade-offs to varied audiences
• Strong problem-solving skills and a commitment to building high-quality, maintainable systems

Requirements

• Strong systems thinking and the ability to balance immediate operational needs with long-term reliability and scalability
• Sound technical judgment when evaluating database architecture, indexing, storage, and performance trade-offs
• The ability to create clarity when requirements, constraints, or paths forward are ambiguous
• A collaborative approach to guiding engineers and improving database practices across teams
• The ability to influence technical decisions and align stakeholders without relying on direct authority
• Intellectual curiosity and a demonstrated ability to build expertise across unfamiliar systems and technologies
• Personal resilience and adaptability as priorities, technologies, and organizational needs evolve
• A pragmatic mindset that balances technical excellence with customer value and business impact

Benefits

• 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