Director - Database Engineering & Operations

1 day, 13 hours ago
Full-time
Executive
DevOps and Infrastructure
HighLevel

HighLevel

HighLevel provides an all-in-one sales and marketing platform that agencies can white label and resell, offering tools and resources designed to help businesses consolidate their marketing efforts and achieve their growth objectives.

Internet Software & Services
251-1K
Founded 2018
$60M raised

Description

  • Lead and mentor Data Engineering and Data Reliability Engineering teams, including senior engineers and leads.
  • Establish operating models, ownership, and accountability across data platforms and operations.
  • Own core data platforms such as MongoDB Atlas, ClickHouse, Firestore, AlloyDB, and caching systems.
  • Drive architectural decisions for scalability, performance, and multi-tenant workloads.
  • Lead platform upgrades, migrations, and long-term data platform strategy.
  • Own backups, restores, disaster recovery, and incident response for critical data systems.
  • Define and enforce RTO and RPO standards and ensure DR drills, restore testing, and operational readiness.
  • Establish schema change governance, data change controls, and compliance coordination with Security and SRE.
  • Partner with Cloud Infrastructure, SRE, Security, and Product Engineering on reliability, access controls, and scaling needs.
  • Own cost optimization, budgeting, headcount planning, and resource efficiency across data infrastructure.

Requirements

  • Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience in Engineering or a related field.
  • 12+ years of engineering experience with significant focus on data platforms.
  • Prior experience leading data infrastructure or database teams at scale.
  • Experience with MongoDB, with Atlas preferred.
  • Experience with ClickHouse or similar analytical databases.
  • Experience with Postgres, AlloyDB, or other cloud-native relational databases.
  • Proven experience owning production data operations, incidents, backups, and audits.
  • Strong leadership and communication skills, including executive-level discussions.
  • Experience in high-growth SaaS environments is preferred.
  • GCP-based data platform experience is preferred.
  • Experience building or leading Data Reliability Engineering (DRE) teams is preferred.

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