Senior Database Engineer

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Market context

U.S. role benchmark (BLS OEWS)

$116,543 U.S. median for this role

Projected growth (BLS Employment Projections)

+9.8% - Much faster than average

Matched to SOC 15-1252 - Software Engineering aggregate by role bucket.

Source: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, OEWS, May 2024 and Employment Projections, 2024-2034.

Role

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Engineering Verified - from the job posting source checked Jun 20, 2026

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Senior Verified - from the job posting source checked Jun 20, 2026

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Public-company Verified - from the job posting source checked Jun 20, 2026

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About this role

Senior Database Engineer 2 Locations 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

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