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Database Engineer

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Hybrid
San Francisco, CA
154K-193K Annually
Senior level
Hybrid
San Francisco, CA
154K-193K Annually
Senior level
The Database Engineer will design and execute data migration strategies, manage replication setups, and provide expert guidance on database systems and security, while ensuring data integrity during migrations.
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Dive in and do the best work of your career at DigitalOcean. Journey alongside a strong community of top talent who are relentless in their drive to build the simplest scalable cloud. If you have a growth mindset, naturally like to think big and bold, and are energized by the fast-paced environment of a true industry disruptor, you’ll find your place here.  We value winning together—while learning, having fun, and making a profound difference for the dreamers and builders in the world. 

We serve the developer community and the businesses they build with a relentless pursuit of simplicity. With our customers at the heart of what we do - and powered by a diverse culture that values boldness, speed, simplicity, ownership, and a growth mindset - we are committed to building truly useful products. Come swim with us!

We're looking for a Database Engineer who will specialize in the high-stakes, end-to-end migration of customer data and database systems. You will be the team's authority on data integrity, replication strategies, and minimizing downtime. Your work is central to reducing customer risk and ensuring successful final cutovers for our most valuable clients moving to the DigitalOcean platform.

What You'll Be Doing:
  • Design and execute data migration strategies for core database systems, primarily Postgres, MySQL, and MongoDB.
  • Implement and manage Change Data Capture (CDC) and logical replication setups to achieve near-zero downtime cutovers.
  • Work with customer data teams to ensure pre-migration schema and data validation, and post-migration performance tuning.
  • Develop automated scripts and tools (in partnership with the Platform Engineering team) to simplify common migration tasks like snapshot creation and failover testing.
  • Provide expert guidance on database security, high availability (HA), and disaster recovery (DR) configurations within the DigitalOcean cloud environment.
What We'll Expect From You:
  • 6+ years of hands-on experience as a DBA, Database Engineer, or Data Migration Specialist.
  • Deep production experience with at least two of the following: Postgres, MySQL, or MongoDB.
  • Expertise in replication technologies and techniques for minimizing data drift and ensuring data fidelity across platforms.
  • Familiarity with cloud-native managed database services and common migration tools.
  • Strong scripting skills (Python or Bash) for automation, monitoring, and validation tasks.
  • Exceptional attention to detail and a customer-first mindset regarding data security and integrity.
Compensation Range: 
  • $154,000 - $192,500

*This is a remote role

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Why You’ll Like Working for DigitalOcean
  • We innovate with purpose. You’ll be a part of a cutting-edge technology company with an upward trajectory, who are proud to simplify cloud and AI so builders can spend more time creating software that changes the world. As a member of the team, you will be a Shark who thinks big, bold, and scrappy, like an owner with a bias for action and a powerful sense of responsibility for customers, products, employees, and decisions.
  • We prioritize career development. At DO, you’ll do the best work of your career. You will work with some of the smartest and most interesting people in the industry. We are a high-performance organization that will always challenge you to think big. Our organizational development team will provide you with resources to ensure you keep growing. We provide employees with reimbursement for relevant conferences, training, and education. All employees have access to LinkedIn Learning's 10,000+ courses to support their continued growth and development.
  • We care about your well-being. Regardless of your location, we will provide you with a competitive array of benefits to support you from our Employee Assistance Program to Local Employee Meetups to flexible time off policy, to name a few. While the philosophy around our benefits is the same worldwide, specific benefits may vary based on local regulations and preferences.
  • We reward our employees. The salary range for this position is based on market data, relevant years of experience, and skills. You may qualify for a bonus in addition to base salary; bonus amounts are determined based on company and individual performance. We also provide equity compensation to eligible employees, including equity grants upon hire and the option to participate in our Employee Stock Purchase Program.
  • DigitalOcean is an equal-opportunity employer. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, ancestry, national origin, caste, sex, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity or expression, age, disability, medical condition, pregnancy, genetic makeup, marital status, or military service.

Top Skills

Bash
MongoDB
MySQL
Postgres
Python

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