Staff Database Engineer

About the role

Multi Media, LLC is a global technology company operating a high-traffic live-streaming platform used by millions of people around the world. Behind the experience is a team solving challenging problems in real-time video, scalability, reliability, data, machine learning, and user experience. We’re a place for people who want their work to matter. Our teams have the autonomy to make decisions, the opportunity to work on problems at meaningful scale, and the ability to see their work shape experiences for a global audience in real time. We value curiosity, ownership, collaboration, and continuous improvement.

We are looking for a Staff Database Engineer to take primary ownership of the reliability, availability, and recoverability of our platform's large PostgreSQL environment. Our PostgreSQL estate operates at significant scale, spans multiple production clusters, holds terabytes of data, and has tables containing billions of rows. These databases support critical user experiences and revenue-generating features, and must be extremely reliable, support rapid recovery capabilities, and provide consistently high performance. You will work as part of the Site Reliability Engineering team to prevent database incidents, strengthen high availability and disaster recovery, improve confidence in our backup and restore procedures, and ensure that maintenance and upgrades can be completed safely. When incidents occur, you will provide the PostgreSQL expertise needed to diagnose complex failures, restore service, and prevent recurrence. This is an opportunity to take meaningful ownership of a business-critical database environment at substantial scale. You will have the autonomy to identify reliability risks, establish operational standards, influence architecture, and shape how PostgreSQL is operated as the platform continues to