Senior Infrastructure Engineer - Database PlatformRemote - Americas

Senior Infrastructure Engineer - Database Platform Remote - Americas At Shopify, Infrastructure Engineers build and operate the systems that make global commerce available, scalable, performant, secure, simple, and cost-effective. We’re hiring a Senior or Staff Infrastructure Software Engineer to join the Database Platform group within Shopify’s Infrastructure organization. This team owns the production infrastructure behind Shopify’s global database: a YugabyteDB-based, PostgreSQL-compatible, horizontally scalable data platform that is becoming a core system of truth for Shopify. You’ll help build and extend our database management control plane: the software layer that provisions databases, orchestrates safe operational workflows, encodes reliability guardrails, and lets Shopify run Yugabyte at global scale. This role is hands-on. You’ll write code, operate production systems, debug hard distributed-systems failures, improve reliability, and build the tooling that lets Shopify run Yugabyte safely at scale. At the Staff level, we’ll expect you to lead through ambiguity, own the hardest technical problems, influence across teams, and model accountability for systems where the pager escalates to you. Here is a sampling of some of the types of systems we are improving and automating:

• Our backup systems (e.g. snapshots, backup verifications)
• Configuration management tools (we use Ansible today)
• Third-party tools such as PgBouncer
• Internal control plane for managing our fleet
• Data and schema migration systems
• Building database safety and performance guardrails that help application teams ship safely
• Managing and operating our global database built on top of YugabyteDB

Qualifications Experience and skills that are important for success in this role (we don’t expect you to have done all of this):

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