[Remote] Staff Database Engineer

Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Owner.com is an AI-native system built to help local business owners succeed, starting with restaurants. The company is seeking a Staff Database Engineer to help product teams store and access data effectively at scale, lead major database migrations, and build reusable data-platform primitives that support engineering teams across the organization.

Responsibilities

• Lead the migration of product workloads
• Give product engineers a clear home for "where should this data live and how should I access it?"
• Build reusable primitives — data-sync utilities, ORM best practices, and access-pattern / schema / index review — so teams stop reinventing patterns
• Expand the product-data platform over time into caching, search, and event streaming

Skills

• • Hands-on experience working with databases inside the product — owning OLTP access patterns, indexing, query optimization, and schema design as part of building user-facing applications
• • Comfortable both writing code in the product stack and reasoning carefully at the database layer
• • Deep expertise with a major relational engine (Postgres strongly preferred) in high-volume production; experience migrating workloads (e.g. MongoDB → Postgres) a strong plus
• • Expertise in schema design, indexing, query optimization, and zero-downtime migrations on large, live tables
• • Experience scaling systems through significant traffic and data growth, in a domain where understanding access patterns at scale is a survival skill — e.g. advertising analytics, fintech / trading systems, large-scale consumer SaaS, or marketplaces
• • Strong software engineering ability — writes, reviews, and ships production code, not SQL alone
• • Flexible problem solving
• • Strong written and verbal communication skills
• • Deep sense of personal ownership and accountability
• • Builder mentality
• • Experience building shared platform primitives — data-sync tooling, ORM best practices, caching (Redis), search, or queues / event streaming
• • Experience with payments or financial data
• • Experience with cloud infrastructure (AWS/GCP), infrastructure-as-code (Terraform), and observability/performance tooling

Benefits

• This role is 100% remote and can be based anywhere in the United States or Canada.

Company Overview

We're building AI that every local business owner will use to succeed, starting with restaurants. owner.com/builders-wanted It was founded in 2018, and is headquartered in Palo Alto, California, USA, with a workforce of 501-1000 employees. Its website is https://owner.com.

Company H1B Sponsorship

Owner.com has a track record of offering H1B sponsorships, with 1 in 2026, 4 in 2025, 1 in 2024, 1 in 2023. Please note that this does not guarantee sponsorship for this specific role.