Database Engineer

Database Platform Engineer

$160K-$300K / yr

Full-time position

San Francisco, CA

Role Overview

As a Database Engineer at Mercor, you'll own the performance, scalability, and reliability of our production database systems (primarily Amazon RDS for MySQL). You'll work closely with backend engineers, infrastructure teams, and data stakeholders to ensure our systems are robust enough to handle rapid growth, and efficient enough to keep costs under control.

What You'll Do

• Design, scale, and maintain our production RDS clusters for high availability and performance.
• Tune queries, indexes, and schema to support low-latency workloads at scale.
• Own the observability including the monitoring, alerting, and performance dashboards for database health.
• Manage backups, restores, failovers, and disaster recovery procedures.
• Work with engineers to optimize data models, migrations, and query patterns.
• Introduce automation for routine tasks (e.g., patching, scaling, parameter tuning).
• Ensure security best practices (IAM roles, encryption, auditing, least-privilege access).
• Partner with product & infra teams to plan for capacity growth and major launches.

What We're Looking For

Nice to Have

We consider all qualified applicants without regard to legally protected characteristics and provide reasonable accommodations upon request.