Database Platform Engineer

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• Ingénieur de la plateforme de bases de données

About AppDirect

Become a digital global citizen and enable the new generation of digital entrepreneurs around the world. AppDirect offers a subscription commerce platform to sell any product through any channel on any device as a service. We power millions of subscriptions worldwide for organizations. We do this by our values-driven culture one that enables you to Be Seen Be Yourself and Do Your Best Work.

About the Data Platform Team

Our mission is to deliver reliable secure and scalable data infrastructure as a service across AppDirect. We treat data infrastructure as a product databases search cache and lakehouse capabilities that engineering teams can depend on to build and ship with confidence.

The Data Platform team supports 80 data stores across the organization and operates against four quality pillars: resiliency and capacity security operational excellence and performance and scalability. We enable self-serve access and automation lead large-scale database migrations driven by company growth and acquisitions and partner closely with Cloud Platform DevOps and product engineering so teams get fit-for-purpose data stores that are secure by design.

As data infrastructure enters its AI-native era we are investing in AI-assisted operations self-service tooling and lakehouse modernization reducing toil improving time-to-insight and helping newly acquired teams onboard onto our data platform quickly and safely.

About You

We are looking for a Database Platform Engineer to join our Data Platform team. You are a highly technical professional with an entrepreneurial spirit and a data-as-a-service mindset. You thrive on efficiency automation (including AI-driven approaches) and continuous learning and you want your work to make a meaningful impact.

This is a unique opportunity to build at the intersection of highly scalable fault-tolerant data services and modern cloud infrastructure. You will take on complex technical challenges across database reliability migrations and platform automation and play a key role in evolving our cloud-native data environment. You enjoy guiding engineers toward the right data store for the job building self-healing systems and leaving behind documentation and patterns that help others move faster.

What youll do and how youll have an impact

• Lead large-scale database migration projects driven by company acquisitions client onboarding and platform growth planning for minimal downtime strong rollback strategies and zero data loss.
• Design and execute deployment strategies for blue/green rollouts data archiving and partitioning across relational and document data stores.
• Use AI-powered automation to strengthen our data platform across our quality pillars: operational excellence security and compliance performance and scalability and resiliency and capacity planning.
• Apply automation tools and spec-driven workflows to design automate and ship database platform changes faster runbooks diagnostics and operational tooling with clear acceptance criteria and high code quality.
• Guide engineers in delivering fit-for-purpose database solutions across relational (MySQL PostgreSQL SQL Server) and other data store types depending on the use case.
• Collaborate with the Data Insights team on data platform enablement supporting reliable access patterns security and governance alignment and safe onboarding of workloads.
• Maintain a strong culture of documentation by developing and sharing high-quality knowledge resources for engineers.
• Participate in incident response and on-call rotation to maintain data infrastructure health.

What were looking for

• 2 years of hands-on experience running and operating MySQL and/or PostgreSQL in production environments with a solid understanding of database internals.
• 2 years of experience with AWS cloud services.
• Solid understanding of relational database concepts including backup and recovery replication performance tuning and high availability.
• Excellent analytical and problem-solving abilities.
• Strong communication skills for explaining complex technical topics to peers and non-technical stakeholders.
• Experience working in a distributed team.

Nice to have

• Experience with Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools such as Terraform for automating database infrastructure provisioning.
• Familiarity with AI-assisted development workflows and tools (e.g. Cursor Claude) to improve efficiency automation and code quality.
• Exposure to lakehouse and analytics infrastructure (e.g. Databricks Apache Iceberg Unity Catalog) and an openness to collaborating with the Data Insights team on lakehouse enablement initiatives.

At AppDirect we believe that innovation thrives in an environment that houses diversity of excellence experience and thought. We respect each AppDirector as their own fingerprint; unique with no one alike. We foster an environment of inclusion without regard to race religion age sexual orientation or gender identity enabling AppDirectors to embrace their uniqueness to do their best work. As such we strongly encourage applications from Indigenous peoples racialized people people with disabilities people from gender and sexually diverse communities and/or people with intersectional identities.

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