Software Engineer, Database Infra

Skills

About the Role

You will own the technical strategy for Harvey's global PostgreSQL fleet across regions. You will build the migration governance framework, drive multi-region architecture and scaling, own reliability and performance, build self-service tooling, and lead database incident response. This is a San Francisco based in-person role.

Requirements

• 10+ years in database administration, reliability engineering, or infrastructure engineering with PostgreSQL
• Expert PostgreSQL knowledge: WAL, vacuum tuning, logical and physical replication, partitioning
• Track record building migration governance systems
• Experience architecting multi-region, high-availability database infrastructure
• Database observability experience with Datadog, pganalyze, or custom instrumentation
• Experience leading major version upgrades or sharding with zero downtime
• Ability to influence technical direction across teams, writing RFCs
• Cloud database services (Azure Database for PostgreSQL, GCP Cloud SQL, AWS RDS/Aurora) and IaC (Terraform, Pulumi)
• Clear communication across audiences

Responsibilities

• Own the migration governance framework including review workflow, CI gate checks, rollback, and deployment sequencing
• Drive technical strategy for the global database fleet including multi-region replication, capacity planning, sharding and partitioning
• Own database reliability and performance, monitoring replication health, and tuning queries, vacuum and connections
• Build self-service tooling and developer guardrails
• Lead database incident response and post-incident reviews
• Partner with Security and Compliance on data-layer controls (SOC 2, GDPR, data residency)
• Represent database engineering in vendor evaluations and build-vs-buy decisions
• Mentor engineers and shape the database engineering function

Benefits

• Equity
• Relocation assistance