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We're fortunate to have the support of many amazing advisors, and 90+ angels across many industries, including the world's foremost experts in AI.\nAbout the Role\nCartesia is hiring a Software Engineer, Databases to architect Cartesia’s data systems for the next orders of magnitude of scale, implement data governance, and empower engineers and non-engineers with easy, secure database tooling and access.\nYour Impact\nDevelop and evolve database platforms to support 100x+ scale while preserving strong guarantees around uptime, latency, and correctness\nDesign data storage architectures that operate smoothly across AWS, GCP, on-prem / first-party infrastructure, third-party deployments, and additional environments\nEnable faster development across the company by providing engineers and non-engineers alike with high-quality, reliable database tooling and primitives\nCreate and deploy secure access control mechanisms so sensitive data is only accessible by authorized users\nBuild scalable data governance systems for permissions, auditing, and compliance (e.g., data residency), including IAM policies, ACLs, and security controls used across thousands of users and services\nWhat You Bring\nStrong proficiency with cloud platforms such as AWS, GCP, or Azure, along with infrastructure-as-code tooling like Terraform\nA track record of taking database systems through periods of extreme growth at fast-scaling organizations\n4+ years of industry experience, including 2+ years owning or leading large, complex technical initiatives as an engineer or tech lead\nDeep hands-on experience operating and scaling databases such as PostgreSQL, MySQL, DynamoDB, or comparable systems\nExperience designing and running database infrastructure in multi-cloud or hybrid environments\nFamiliarity with database automation, orchestration, and operational tooling at significant scale\nNice-to-Haves\nExperience working with Redis, Temporal, vector databases, or asynchronous/background job systems\nStrong understanding of database internals and data systems — including storage engines, indexing, query execution, and related topics — is a bonus but not required\nPrevious experience at organizations with a strong reputation for database or data-infrastructure engineering\nOur Culture\nWe’re an in-person team based out of San Francisco. 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