Senior Database Engineer
8x8 connects our customers and teams globally, empowering CX leaders with performance and insights to make smarter decisions, delight customers, and drive lasting business impact. Senior Database Engineer 8x8 is seeking a Senior Database Engineer to join our engineering team responsible for the architecture, reliability, and performance of our database infrastructure across on-premises, AWS, and OCI environments. This is a senior technical role requiring deep expertise in relational database systems, high-availability architectures, performance engineering, and infrastructure automation at scale. You will serve as a technical leader and subject matter expert for database platforms, driving architectural decisions, mentoring junior engineers, and partnering with development and infrastructure teams to ensure database systems deliver the highest levels of availability, performance, and data integrity across a globally distributed environment. The ideal candidate has a track record of operating mission-critical database infrastructure, is comfortable influencing technical direction, and is passionate about building resilient, self-healing data platforms.
Responsibilities
Lead the architecture, management, and optimization of Oracle 19c RAC, MySQL 8, and PostgreSQL database systems across on-premises, AWS, and OCI cloud environments. Define and drive database standards, best practices, and operational runbooks across the organization. Own database upgrade and migration strategies for Oracle and MySQL, ensuring minimal downtime and risk mitigation across all environments. Lead advanced database troubleshooting, root cause analysis, and performance engineering across Oracle, MySQL, PostgreSQL, HAProxy, and Keepalived. Architect and maintain database replication topologies including master-slave, master-master, and cross-region configurations for disaster recovery. Design and implement automation for database provisioning, patching, scaling, and failover using Python, Terraform, and Ansible. Own backup and recovery strategy using RMAN, mysqldump, pg_dump, and point-in-time recovery, ensuring RPO/RTO targets are met and regularly tested. Implement and maintain database observability including monitoring, alerting, dashboards, and capacity forecasting using Grafana, CloudWatch, or equivalent platforms. Collaborate with application development teams on schema design, query optimization, indexing strategies, and capacity planning. Mentor and guide junior database engineers, conducting code and architecture reviews. Participate in on-call rotations as a senior escalation point for critical database incidents. Evaluate emerging database technologies and make recommendations for adoption where appropriate. Required Skills & Experience 7+ years of hands-on experience in database engineering or DBA roles, with at least 3 years in a senior or lead capacity. Expert-level knowledge of Oracle 19c RAC administration, including RMAN, Data Guard, patching, and advanced query optimization. Deep experience with MySQL 8 administration, replication architectures (master-slave, master-master, GTID-based), and performance tuning at scale. Strong working knowledge of PostgreSQL administration, replication, and performance tooling. Proven experience designing and operating high-availability and disaster recovery database architectures in production. Strong proficiency in Linux systems administration (Ubuntu/RHEL-based) and shell scripting. Extensive experience with automation and infrastructure-as-code: Python, Terraform, Ansible. Solid understanding of high-availability components: HAProxy, Keepalived, or equivalent load balancing and failover solutions. Experience with Git-based workflows, CI/CD practices, and database change management processes. Demonstrated ability to lead incident response, perform root cause analysis, and drive post-incident improvements. Excellent communication skills with the ability to influence technical decisions and collaborate effectively across time zones in a distributed team.
Nice to Have
Experience with AWS database services (RDS, Aurora, DMS) and OCI database offerings. Exposure to MSSQL Server administration. Experience with database migration strategies across cloud providers and on-premises environments. Hands-on experience with Grafana monitoring dashboards, alerting rules, and database metrics integration. Experience with NoSQL or caching technologies (Redis, DynamoDB, Elasticsearch). 8x8 is proud to provide equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability or genetics. For 8x8 jobs located in the US: 8x8 participates in the E-Verify program. View the Participant Poster in English and Español. View the Right to Work Poster in English and Español. We also provide reasonable accommodation to individuals with disabilities in accordance with applicable laws. Learn more or email us at [email protected] (Include “Reasonable Accommodation” in the subject line) Our Job Applicant Privacy Notice can be found here. Learn more on our company website at www.8x8.com follow our pages on LinkedIn, Twitter, Facebook and Instagram. Apply To This Job