Scale Engineer

Overview

Job Description

Responsibilities

• - Audit and optimize Prisma queries across the codebase, removing N+1 queries, excessive includes, and inefficient data access patterns
• - Design and implement PostgreSQL indexing strategies for very large tables that will scale to hundreds of millions of rows
• - Build query performance monitoring and alerting using Grafana, Axiom, and Sentry to detect slow queries early
• - Implement and manage read replicas across multiple regions to reduce global latency
• - Deploy and manage globally distributed serverless functions on Vercel connected to localized read replicas
• - Design multi layer caching strategies using CDN caching, application caching, and query caching with Cloudflare and in memory systems
• - Establish connection pooling and query optimization patterns that scale during traffic spikes
• - Rebuild our application telemetry to have detailed insights into our code’s performance
• - Create runbooks and automated responses for common performance degradation scenarios
• - Partner with SRE to define and maintain SLOs and SLIs for database and API performance
• - Conduct regular performance audits and capacity planning exercises

Required Skills

• - Deep expertise in PostgreSQL performance tuning, indexing, and query optimization at scale
• - Extensive experience with Prisma ORM and its query generation behavior
• - Strong experience running production systems on Vercel serverless infrastructure
• - Experience implementing read replicas and high availability database strategies
• - Strong knowledge of CDN and edge caching configuration with Cloudflare
• - Hands on experience with observability tooling including Grafana, Axiom, Sentry, and synthetic monitoring
• - Production experience with Next.js and NestJS
• - Strong understanding of connection pooling, batching, and database connection management
• - Experience building alerting systems that detect performance regressions early
• - High autonomy mindset and comfort working in a remote, async-first environment
• - Clear written communication and calm incident communication

Benefits

• - Work from anywhere, anytime, fully remote & async
• - Earn the same salary no matter where you live
• - No standups, no micromanagement, no unnecessary calls
• - Real flexibility, take time for life stuff, no approval needed
• - Work in your own flow, pajamas welcome
• - 30 paid OOO days per year (wherever you are in the world)
• - Yearly team retreats in beautiful locations
• - People-first culture, stable, family-friendly, kind