At commercetools, we are:

Engaged: We didn't become the fastest growing, highest ever valued SaaS software company in digital commerce with nearly 100% year-over-year growth by sitting on the sidelines.

Inspired: We continually explore what's possible. As the founder of the headless commerce concept, the leader in true composable commerce, and the visionaries behind MACH® — our patented tech has radically disrupted the world of enterprise ecommerce software. And we are just getting started!

Valued: Intelligent, resilient, passionate individuals hailing from over 50 countries across the globe, speaking over 43 languages, and collectively embracing diversity, encouraging inclusion, and fostering a culture of care.

The Opportunity:

We are searching for a passionate and innovative Staff Engineer with a focus on Database Infrastructure Management to join our team. Our Staff Engineer will lead the infrastructure strategy for our global database operations.

Your Mission:

• Lead cross-discipline database infrastructure initiatives that affect a wide range of teams
• Advise teams on optimal usage of available database systems so that applications perform at cloud scale
• Enable teams to securely self-service databases by defining and rolling out database policies and solutions
• Ensure database-related High Availability and Disaster Recovery objectives are met across the organization
• Define and rollout prescribed database solutions and policies
• Extend and create tooling to automatically rightsize databases according to capacity requirements and performance demands
• Contribute to the tech strategy in alignment with commercetools' overall growth strategy

What you need to succeed:

• Proven experience operating MongoDB infrastructure, in a lead or senior role
• Ability to collaborate with third party vendors to address organizational needs
• Track record of developing deeply technical strategies to meet business objectives
• Insight into industry-leading database fleet management strategies
• Leadership skills grown from guiding storage infrastructure teams
• Communication skills to align your peers and management on optimal solutions
• Enthusiasm for writing and sharing information: RFCs, meeting summaries, ideas, plans, etc.
• Proficient writing software in at least one strongly typed language

Nice to have:

• Experience with Postgres, ElasticSearch, Redis, or other database solutions
• Experience with Infrastructure as Code: Terraform and Ansible
• Experience with Cloud and managed Database Providers: AWS, GCP, Azure, MongoDB Atlas

Tech at commercetools:

We Are Open Source And Innovative By Design

🚀 We make rapid progress by being early adopters of React, Scala, and GraphQL

📋 We share & contribute to the open source community: https://github.com/sangria-graphql

⚙️ We <3 Automation and Machine Learning

We care about your Growth and Well-being

💰 Competitive compensation package: Generous compensation structure consisting of salary, competitive stock option package, various benefits  and perks

☀️ Remote Work: Up to 60 days/year from a country different from your base country  

💻 Open Learning & Development Budget

📚 ct Academy: Regular internal training sessions

⌚️ Flexibility: Morning person or night owl? We believe in outcome and motivated employees

🚀 Mindset & Growth: A diverse, creative workspace with an international culture & learning environment

Are you ready? Come grow with us!

🔍 Are you looking for something else? Check out our Career Page and our Website for more information.

We are all different and that is what makes us stronger! We hire great people from a wide variety of backgrounds, not just because it’s the right thing to do, but because it makes our company better.

commercetools celebrates being a diverse environment and is proud to be an equal opportunities employer. If your professional profile aligns with our specific hiring requirements and company culture, then we encourage you to apply. We will assess your competencies, future potential, approach to learning and self-development and passion, and not your age, color, national origin, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, familial status, genetics, or disability.