What We're Looking For
Stytch is the platform for user authentication. We build infrastructure that sits in the critical path of our customer's applications. As an Experienced Database Engineer, you'll work on designing and building database infrastructure to be secure and highly reliable for our customers globally.
What Excites You
- A collaborative environment with a tight feedback loop between the work you do and the impact it has on users
- Solving problems with pragmatic solutions — you know when to make trade offs between complexity and shipping quickly
- Building products that make developers lives easier — as a database engineer for a developer infrastructure company, what you build will have an immediate impact on our customers
- Shaping the culture and growing the team through recruiting, mentorship, and establishing best practices
- Learning new skills and technologies in a fast paced environment
What Excites Us
- 5+ years as a database, infrastructure, or platform engineer
- Strong expertise in designing, implementing and supporting scalable and performant database systems (MySQL preferred)
- Strong understanding of relational and non-relational database structures and best practices
- Strong expertise with database internals, including performance tuning and query optimization
- Expertise in integrating best practices for data reliability, fault tolerance, and integrity
- Experience with cloud infrastructure (AWS), including RDS
- Experience designing and building highly reliable systems at scale
- Some experience with observability tooling (e.g. ELK, Datadog, Honeycomb) and a compiled language (e.g. Go)
- Familiarity with containerization and orchestration technologies (e.g. Kubernetes, Docker) and Infrastructure as Code (e.g. Terraform, GitOps)
What Success Looks Like
- Technical — build highly reliable databases that our customers can depend on
- Ownership — advocate for projects and solutions that you believe in and ship them to production
- Leadership — level up your teammates by providing mentorship and guidance
Our Tech Stack
- MySQL and ElasticSearch for our data layer
- AWS with Kubernetes for service orchestration
- gRPC and protobufs for internal service communication
- Terraform and GitOps to manage our infrastructure
- Go for backend services
- Node and Typescript for our web services
- Next.js and React/Typescript on the frontend
- Swift for our iOS sdk and Kotlin for the Android sdk
Expected base salary $185,000 - $225,000. The anticipated base salary range is not inclusive of full benefits including equity, health care insurance, time off, paid parental leave, etc. This base salary is accurate based on information at the time of posting. Actual compensation for hired candidates will be determined using a number of factors including experience, skills, and qualifications.
We're looking to hire a GREAT team and that means hiring people who are highly empathetic, ambitious, and excited about building the future of user authentication. You should feel empowered to apply for this role even if your experience doesn't exactly match up to our job description (our job descriptions are directional and not perfect recipes for exactly what we need).
We are committed to building a diverse, inclusive, and equitable workspace where everyone (regardless of age, education, ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation, or any personal characteristics) feels like they belong. We look forward to hearing from you!
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