{"schemaVersion":"jobsearcher.job.v1","id":"e2d5b4bf3ed7ebd50f1572df","url":"https://jobsearcher.com/jobs/e2d5b4bf3ed7ebd50f1572df","canonicalUrl":"https://jobsearcher.com/jobs/e2d5b4bf3ed7ebd50f1572df","title":"Staff Database Engineer","description":"About Owner\n\nOwner is the AI-native system local business owners use to succeed, starting with restaurants.\n\nWe’re building the system that replaces the many tools owners use to run their business.\n\nIt powers everything from the restaurant’s website, online ordering, CRM, POS, and more.\n\nProduct philosophy\n\nMost small business software makes owners do the work to get what they want: sales growth and profit growth. Owner does the work for them agentically.\n\nOur system drives demand, converts it, and helps operators run their business day to day. As it improves, the business improves with it.\n\nUsing Owner should feel like having a team of great operators, engineers, and marketers working for you.\n\nOur vision\n\nWe’re starting by helping independent restaurants succeed online.\n\nBut it’s not just restaurants that need our help. Most local businesses are struggling with these same problems. Huge technology corporations are taking their customers, bleeding their profits, and making it hard for them to survive.\n\nOnce we nail the solution for restaurants – we’ll scale it into every other local business type.\n\nIn the future we envision, tens of millions of local business owners will use our technology to succeed in the digital age.\n\nOur traction\n\nSince 2020, we've generated tens of millions in revenue and processed over a billion dollars of online orders. 1 in 5 Americans have used an Owner.com website.\n\nMore importantly, we’ve helped over 20,000 restaurant owners, and saved them nearly $200 million in fees.\n\nOur team\n\nOur team is now in the low hundreds. We’ve got top talent from the most successful companies in SMB software, including: Shopify, HubSpot, DoorDash, ServiceTitan, Rappi, Faire and Stripe.\n\nWe’ll be scaling even faster in 2026 to keep pace with our customer growth.\n\nWhere we work\n\nOwner is a remote-first, global company headquartered in San Francisco, with a sales hub in Toronto. For a few of our roles we prioritize in-person collaboration at one of our office locations. Most of our teammates are distributed throughout the globe. Please review the role description and discuss with your recruiter for more details on location!\n\nWe are seeking a highly skilled Staff Database Engineer to help product teams store and access data effectively at scale. You will be the default place product engineers turn to for \"which database should this live in?\" and \"will this access pattern hold up?\" This means leading large projects like migrations and building the platform engineers interact with. You will be driving the largest, load-bearing changes to our data infrastructure. This is a hands-on, software-engineer-first role. It is not a BI, data-warehousing, or analytics-engineering role — that work lives with our BizOps and BI teams.\n\nThis role is 100% remote and can be based anywhere in the United States or Canada, or anywhere in Mexico or Colombia.\n\nThe impact you'll have\n\nLead the migration of product workloads\n\nGive product engineers a clear home for \"where should this data live and how should I access it?\"\n\nBuild reusable primitives — data-sync utilities, ORM best practices, and access-pattern / schema / index review — so teams stop reinventing patterns.\n\nExpand the product-data platform over time into caching, search, and event streaming.\n\nWho you'll work with\n\nProduct Engineering Teams\n\nPlatform / Infrastructure Teams\n\nThis role has company-wide impact and will partner cross-functionally across the entire engineering organization.\n\nWhat we're looking for\n\nHands-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\n\nComfortable both writing code in the product stack and reasoning carefully at the database layer\n\nDeep expertise with a major relational engine (Postgres strongly preferred) in high-volume production; experience migrating workloads (e.g., MongoDB Postgres) a strong plus\n\nExpertise in schema design, indexing, query optimization, and zero-downtime migrations on large, live tables\n\nExperience 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\n\nStrong software engineering ability — writes, reviews, and ships production code, not SQL alone\n\nFlexible problem solving\n\nStrong written and verbal communication skills\n\nDeep sense of personal ownership and accountability\n\nBuilder mentality\n\nNice to Haves\n\nExperience building shared platform primitives — data-sync tooling, ORM best practices, caching (Redis), search, or queues / event streaming\n\nExperience with payments or financial data\n\nExperience with cloud infrastructure (AWS/GCP), infrastructure-as-code (Terraform), and observability/performance tooling\n\nNotice - Employment Scams\n\nCommunication from our team regarding job opportunities will only be made by an Owner team member with an @owner.com email address.\n\nWe do not conduct interviews over email or chat platforms, and we will never ask you to provide personal or financial information such as your mailing address, social security number, credit card numbers or banking information. If you believe you are being contacted by a scammer, please mark the communication as \"phishing\" or “spam” and do not respond.","company":"Ownercom","rawCompany":"ownercom","city":"Mexico","state":"MO","isRemote":false,"isActive":false,"createdAt":"2026-08-19T21:04:53.760Z","occupations":[{"code":"15-1243.00","title":"Database Architects","slug":"database-architects"},{"code":"15-1242.00","title":"Database Administrators","slug":"database-administrators"},{"code":"15-1252.00","title":"Software Developers","slug":"software-developers"}],"industries":[{"code":"513210","title":"Software Publishers","slug":"software-publishers"},{"code":"541511","title":"Custom Computer Programming Services","slug":"custom-computer-programming-services"},{"code":"541512","title":"Computer Systems Design Services","slug":"computer-systems-design-services"}],"jobPosting":{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"JobPosting","title":"Staff Database Engineer","description":"About Owner\n\nOwner is the AI-native system local business owners use to succeed, starting with restaurants.\n\nWe’re building the system that replaces the many tools owners use to run their business.\n\nIt powers everything from the restaurant’s website, online ordering, CRM, POS, and more.\n\nProduct philosophy\n\nMost small business software makes owners do the work to get what they want: sales growth and profit growth. Owner does the work for them agentically.\n\nOur system drives demand, converts it, and helps operators run their business day to day. As it improves, the business improves with it.\n\nUsing Owner should feel like having a team of great operators, engineers, and marketers working for you.\n\nOur vision\n\nWe’re starting by helping independent restaurants succeed online.\n\nBut it’s not just restaurants that need our help. Most local businesses are struggling with these same problems. Huge technology corporations are taking their customers, bleeding their profits, and making it hard for them to survive.\n\nOnce we nail the solution for restaurants – we’ll scale it into every other local business type.\n\nIn the future we envision, tens of millions of local business owners will use our technology to succeed in the digital age.\n\nOur traction\n\nSince 2020, we've generated tens of millions in revenue and processed over a billion dollars of online orders. 1 in 5 Americans have used an Owner.com website.\n\nMore importantly, we’ve helped over 20,000 restaurant owners, and saved them nearly $200 million in fees.\n\nOur team\n\nOur team is now in the low hundreds. We’ve got top talent from the most successful companies in SMB software, including: Shopify, HubSpot, DoorDash, ServiceTitan, Rappi, Faire and Stripe.\n\nWe’ll be scaling even faster in 2026 to keep pace with our customer growth.\n\nWhere we work\n\nOwner is a remote-first, global company headquartered in San Francisco, with a sales hub in Toronto. For a few of our roles we prioritize in-person collaboration at one of our office locations. Most of our teammates are distributed throughout the globe. Please review the role description and discuss with your recruiter for more details on location!\n\nWe are seeking a highly skilled Staff Database Engineer to help product teams store and access data effectively at scale. You will be the default place product engineers turn to for \"which database should this live in?\" and \"will this access pattern hold up?\" This means leading large projects like migrations and building the platform engineers interact with. You will be driving the largest, load-bearing changes to our data infrastructure. This is a hands-on, software-engineer-first role. It is not a BI, data-warehousing, or analytics-engineering role — that work lives with our BizOps and BI teams.\n\nThis role is 100% remote and can be based anywhere in the United States or Canada, or anywhere in Mexico or Colombia.\n\nThe impact you'll have\n\nLead the migration of product workloads\n\nGive product engineers a clear home for \"where should this data live and how should I access it?\"\n\nBuild reusable primitives — data-sync utilities, ORM best practices, and access-pattern / schema / index review — so teams stop reinventing patterns.\n\nExpand the product-data platform over time into caching, search, and event streaming.\n\nWho you'll work with\n\nProduct Engineering Teams\n\nPlatform / Infrastructure Teams\n\nThis role has company-wide impact and will partner cross-functionally across the entire engineering organization.\n\nWhat we're looking for\n\nHands-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\n\nComfortable both writing code in the product stack and reasoning carefully at the database layer\n\nDeep expertise with a major relational engine (Postgres strongly preferred) in high-volume production; experience migrating workloads (e.g., MongoDB Postgres) a strong plus\n\nExpertise in schema design, indexing, query optimization, and zero-downtime migrations on large, live tables\n\nExperience 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\n\nStrong software engineering ability — writes, reviews, and ships production code, not SQL alone\n\nFlexible problem solving\n\nStrong written and verbal communication skills\n\nDeep sense of personal ownership and accountability\n\nBuilder mentality\n\nNice to Haves\n\nExperience building shared platform primitives — data-sync tooling, ORM best practices, caching (Redis), search, or queues / event streaming\n\nExperience with payments or financial data\n\nExperience with cloud infrastructure (AWS/GCP), infrastructure-as-code (Terraform), and observability/performance tooling\n\nNotice - Employment Scams\n\nCommunication from our team regarding job opportunities will only be made by an Owner team member with an @owner.com email address.\n\nWe do not conduct interviews over email or chat platforms, and we will never ask you to provide personal or financial information such as your mailing address, social security number, credit card numbers or banking information. 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