Database Platform Engineer

<p style="text-align: justify;">Pour la version française de cette description de poste, veuillez consulter le lien suivant / For the French version of this job description, please refer to the following link:</p> <ul style="text-align: justify;"> <li><a href="https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/appdirect/jobs/8646928002" target="_blank">Ingénieur de la plateforme de bases de données</a></li> </ul> <p style="text-align: justify;"><strong>About AppDirect<br><br></strong>Become a digital, global citizen and enable the new generation of digital entrepreneurs around the world. AppDirect offers a subscription commerce platform to sell any product, through any channel, on any device as a service. We power millions of subscriptions worldwide for organizations. We do this by our values-driven culture, one that enables you to Be Seen, Be Yourself, and Do Your Best Work.<br><br><strong>About the Data Platform Team<br></strong></p> <p style="text-align: justify;">Our mission is to deliver reliable, secure, and scalable data infrastructure as a service across AppDirect. We treat data infrastructure as a product — databases, search, cache, and lakehouse capabilities that engineering teams can depend on to build and ship with confidence.</p> <p style="text-align: justify;">The Data Platform team supports 80+ data stores across the organization and operates against four quality pillars: resiliency and capacity, security, operational excellence, and performance and scalability. We enable self-serve access and automation, lead large-scale database migrations driven by company growth and acquisitions, and partner closely with Cloud Platform, DevOps, and product engineering so teams get fit-for-purpose data stores that are secure by design.</p> <p style="text-align: justify;">As data infrastructure enters its AI-native era, we are investing in AI-assisted operations, self-service tooling, and lakehouse modernization — reducing toil, improving time-to-insight, and helping newly acquired teams onboard onto our data platform quickly and safely.<br><br><strong>About You<br></strong></p> <p style="text-align: justify;">We are looking for a Database Platform Engineer to join our Data Platform team. You are a highly technical professional with an entrepreneurial spirit and a data-as-a-service mindset. You thrive on efficiency, automation (including AI-driven approaches), and continuous learning — and you want your work to make a meaningful impact.</p> <p style="text-align: justify;">This is a unique opportunity to build at the intersection of highly scalable, fault-tolerant data services and modern cloud infrastructure. You will take on complex technical challenges across database reliability, migrations, and platform automation, and play a key role in evolving our cloud-native data environment. You enjoy guiding engineers toward the right data store for the job, building self-healing systems, and leaving behind documentation and patterns that help others move faster.</p> <p style="text-align: justify;"><strong>What you'll do and how you'll have an impact</strong></p> <ul style="text-align: justify;"> <li>Lead large-scale database migration projects driven by company acquisitions, client onboarding, and platform growth — planning for minimal downtime, strong rollback strategies, and zero data loss.</li> <li>Design and execute deployment strategies for blue/green rollouts, data archiving, and partitioning across relational and document data stores.</li> <li>Use AI-powered automation to strengthen our data platform across our quality pillars: operational excellence, security and compliance, performance and scalability, and resiliency and capacity planning.</li> <li>Apply automation tool