Senior Software Engineer, Online Data Stores

We are looking for a Senior Software Engineer to join our Online Data Stores team, a critical part of the Infrastructure team at Persona. You'll play a key role in building, maintaining, and evolving the data storage solutions that power our application stack. You will be instrumental in ensuring the scalability, reliability, and performance of these core systems. You'll collaborate closely with other engineering teams to optimize data storage solutions and define best practices, helping Persona scale effectively.

Responsibilities

Design, develop, and maintain high-performance, scalable, and secure data stores used across our application stack; Collaborate with infrastructure, platform, and application teams to optimize data storage solutions for performance, reliability, and cost-efficiency; Implement and advocate for best practices for data modeling, access patterns, monitoring, and incident response; Contribute to automation, observability, and proactive capacity planning to ensure operational excellence; Participate in code reviews, contribute to architectural discussions, and mentor junior engineers; Partner with other engineering teams to deliver on complex initiatives together; Develop simple, elegant solutions to complex problems; Embrace and champion engineering best practices within the product engineering teams; Work closely with product teams to plan and build scalable, resilient and cost-effective infrastructure systems that meet launch goals, reach new markets and scale with product demand; Directly shape system design, development methodologies, and implementation technologies

Requirements

BA/BS in computer science, software engineering or equivalent experience; 5+ years of software engineering experience with a focus on large-scale, distributed data systems; Strong technical expertise in designing and operating scalable data storage solutions; Experience with cloud-native architectures and technologies; Deep understanding of data consistency, replication, partitioning, and high availability strategies; Experience with infrastructure-as-code and container orchestration systems; Software development experience in general-purpose programming languages; Strong problem-solving skills and ability to navigate ambiguity in a fast-paced environment; Excellent communication and collaboration skills, with a focus on cross-functional teamwork; Knowledge of and expertise in software engineering best practices for software development life cycle, including requirements gathering, design, coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations

Nice to have

MySQL; MongoDB; Elasticsearch; Redis; Google Cloud; Ruby on Rails; ORMs

Benefits

Medical, dental, and vision; 3% 401(k) contribution; unlimited PTO; quarterly mental health days; family planning benefits; professional development stipend; wellness benefits