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A Staff Database Platform Engineer is a senior individual contributor (IC) responsible for designing, building, and operating the company’s database platform as a product—balancing reliability, performance, security, and developer self-service. The role ensures that application teams can safely and efficiently store, query, and scale data using standardized patterns, paved roads, and automated operational controls.

The Senior Database Platform Engineer designs, builds, and operates the database platforms that underpin critical product and internal workloads, with a focus on reliability, performance, security, and scalable operations. This role sits in the Data Infrastructure department and blends hands-on engineering with platform thinking: enabling application teams to consume databases safely and efficiently through self-service, automation, and clear operational guardrails.

The **Principal Database Platform Engineer** is a senior individual contributor (IC) responsible for the architecture, reliability, scalability, security, and cost efficiency of the organization’s database platforms. The role builds and evolves “database as a platform” capabilities—standardized, automated, observable, and governed database services that enable product engineering teams to ship features safely without becoming database experts.

The Lead Database Platform Engineer designs, builds, and operates the company’s database platforms as reliable, secure, scalable products that enable engineering teams to ship features quickly without compromising data integrity or availability. This role blends deep database engineering (performance, replication, backups, schema/migration strategy) with platform engineering and SRE practices (automation, observability, incident response, reliability engineering, cost governance).

The **Junior Database Platform Engineer** supports the reliability, security, and day-to-day operability of the company’s database platforms (managed and/or self-hosted) that underpin customer-facing products, internal services, and analytics workloads. This role focuses on executing well-defined operational and engineering tasks—such as monitoring, backups, patching support, automation improvements, and incident response assistance—under the guidance of more senior database and platform engineers.

The Database Platform Engineer designs, builds, and operates reliable database platforms that product engineering teams can use safely and efficiently at scale. This role focuses on platform-level capabilities—availability, performance, security, backup/restore, automation, and standardization—rather than application feature development.