Release Engineer - Data Plane Internal Tooling and Productivity

Role overview A hybrid release engineer is needed to balance operational execution with software development on a managed database platform running tens of thousands of clusters. The role owns rolling upgrades end to end, from pre-flight validation and staged rollouts through post-upgrade monitoring and incident response, while simultaneously building the internal tooling and automation that make future rollouts safer. It suits someone who finds equal satisfaction in writing the playbook and executing the messy parts of large-scale production operations.

Responsibilities - Plan and execute rolling upgrades across tens of thousands of database clusters, prioritizing safety, correctness, and minimal customer impact. - Own the full release pipeline, including pre-upgrade validation, staged rollouts, post-upgrade monitoring, and incident response. - Investigate and resolve production issues during a regular on-call rotation, including edge cases and outlier clusters that automation cannot yet handle. - Build and continuously improve the internal tooling and automation that make large-scale database operations reliable and repeatable. - Partner with core database and cloud infrastructure teams to surface operational pain points and turn them into solved problems. - Support and educate other engineering teams that rely on the team's internal tools.

Requirements - Five or more years of experience operating stateful distributed systems in production, such as databases, message queues, or storage systems. - Hands-on experience running upgrades or maintenance operations on live production data stores at scale. - Strong production debugging skills, with comfort digging into unfamiliar systems under pressure. - Experience with at least one major cloud provider (AWS, Azure, or GCP) and with Kubernetes. - Software development experience in Go, or strong experience in another language combined with a genuine willingness to learn Go.

Nice to have - Prior experience with the specific database technology used on the platform, as a user, operator, or contributor.

Benefits and work setup - Fully remote-friendly environment with a globally distributed team. - Employer contributions toward healthcare and equity in the company through stock options. - Flexible time off in the U.S. with generous entitlements in other countries. - A USD $500 home office setup allowance for remote employees. - In-person company-wide offsites for team connection.