LAIKA-posted about 2 months ago
Hybrid • Hillsboro, OR
101-250 employees
Motion Picture and Sound Recording Industries

The Sr Database Software Engineer designs, builds, and optimizes systems that move data across LAIKA's creative and technical pipelines. This role focuses on developing back-end services, improving database performance, and creating tools that connect artists and engineers through reliable, scalable technology. Strong programming experience with databases is essential-along with curiosity, collaboration, and a passion for supporting the art of storytelling through elegant engineering.

  • Design, develop, and operate database platform services that support studio-wide applications and infrastructure.
  • Partner with developers and pipeline teams to model, design, and implement scalable, maintainable data systems.
  • Build tools and APIs that empower users across production and technology to work more efficiently.
  • Maintain and improve existing systems to ensure reliability, interoperability, and ease of use.
  • Automate recurring tasks using modern DevOps and scripting practices to improve performance and maintainability.
  • Investigate and resolve complex technical challenges and problems in a high-demand production environment.
  • Explore and evaluate emerging database technologies, including graph and vector databases, to support evolving studio needs.
  • Contribute to our event-driven architecture and data wrangling systems (ETL/ELT pipelines).
  • Offer expertise in the development and establishment of core tools and APIs in one or more of these areas: application dependency mapping, software unit testing frameworks, build and release systems, enterprise messaging, automated deployment, cloud storage interfaces.
  • 7+ years of applied software development or engineering experience in a professional setting.
  • Experience deploying, managing, and optimizing PostgreSQL in an enterprise environment.
  • Solid understanding of database design, implementation, and troubleshooting.
  • Experience developing applications backed by databases at scale.
  • Proficiency in Python, Rust, C, or C++.
  • Experience with SDLC concepts and methodologies including CI/CD and version control.
  • Experience developing and operating services on container platforms such as Docker/Kubernetes preferred.
  • Experience developing for Linux, Mac, and Windows operating systems preferred.
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