Staff Database Engineer II

Housecall Pro is a company dedicated to supporting home service professionals across America. The team is globally distributed across countries including Brazil, Poland, the Philippines, and Mexico. The company operates with headquarters in Denver, Colorado, and is backed by top-tier VCs.

• 5+ years of experience designing, implementing, and managing relational database systems in complex production environments
• Experience in database engineering, DevOps, software engineering, site reliability engineering, or related technical fields
• Deep knowledge of database architecture, data modeling, indexing, transactions, constraints, and query optimization
• Hands-on experience optimizing and supporting MySQL, PostgreSQL, or comparable relational databases
• Experience with database backup and recovery, high availability, replication, partitioning, and scaling strategies
• Knowledge of database security practices, access controls, data protection, and compliance
• Experience diagnosing production database issues and developing durable solutions to reduce recurring risk
• Familiarity with infrastructure-as-code tools such as Terraform, CloudFormation, or Pulumi
• Strong communication skills to explain database concepts and technical trade-offs
• Strong problem-solving skills and commitment to building maintainable systems

Nice to have:

• Strong systems thinking balancing operational needs with long-term reliability
• Sound technical judgment in database architecture and performance trade-offs
• Ability to create clarity when facing ambiguous requirements
• Collaborative approach to guiding engineers and improving database practices
• Ability to influence technical decisions without direct authority
• Intellectual curiosity and ability to build expertise across unfamiliar systems
• Personal resilience and adaptability to evolving priorities and technologies
• Pragmatic mindset balancing technical excellence with customer value and business impact

• Design, build, and maintain secure, reliable, and scalable database schemas and storage systems
• Optimize MySQL and PostgreSQL databases for performance, stability, security, and resource efficiency
• Develop and implement scaling strategies including replication, partitioning, and sharding
• Partner with engineering teams to improve schema designs, queries, migrations, and integrations
• Monitor and troubleshoot production databases, resolving availability, performance, or data integrity issues
• Analyze incidents, identify root causes, and implement corrective and preventative solutions
• Contribute database expertise to architecture and design reviews
• Support cross-functional initiatives like disaster recovery, data classification, software upgrades, ETL, security, and compliance
• Establish and promote practices for database observability, high availability, backup, recovery, and maintainability
• Evaluate emerging database technologies and practices to improve systems

This role is open to candidates located in Poland only. The specific salary for the successful candidate will be determined based on permissible, non-discriminatory factors such as skills and experience. Personal data is processed in accordance with recruitment process regulations and privacy laws.