Staff Devops Engineer II (DbOps)

Job Description

Why Housecall Pro?Help us build solutions that build better lives. At Housecall Pro, we show up to work every day to make a difference for real people: the home service professionals that support America’s 100 million homes. We’re all about the Pro, and dedicate our days to helping them streamline operations, scale their businesses, and—ultimately—save time so they can be with their families and live well.While our headquarters are based in Denver, Colorado, our team spans the globe, with teammates across Brazil, Poland, the Philippines, Mexico, and beyond. We care deeply about our customers and foster a culture where our company, people and Pros grow and succeed together—no matter where they’re based. Leadership is as focused on growing team members’ careers as they expect their teams to be on creating solutions for Pros. We also offer:Paid holidays and flexible, take-it-as-you-need-it scheduled time offA culture built on innovation that values big ideas, no matter where they come fromA MacBook set up and ready from day one, plus a $500 stipend to design your ideal workspaceCentral European Time (CET) hours to support a balanced schedule for our Poland-based teamEquity in a rapidly growing startup backed by top-tier VCs🚀 About the roleAs a Staff Devops Engineer II (DbOps), you are an expert communicator who bridges the gap between schema design, site reliability engineering, and infrastructure automation. You possess deep relational database expertise and are comfortable collaborating cross-functionally across engineering teams to optimize query performance, architecture, and system scalability. You take a high level of ownership over database health, proactively addressing scaling bottlenecks, sharding, and replication Topologies before they impact production. You bring an SRE mindset to continuously improve the observability, efficiency, and disaster recovery posture of core data systems.Our team is passionate, empathetic, hard working, and above all else focused on improving the lives of our service professionals (our Pros). Our success is their success.Compensation: 9400 - 11800 USD per month (B2B) What You'll Do Each DayOwn the observability, monitoring, and alerting of production database clusters and replication topologiesOptimize database engine configurations for performance, stability, compliance, and securityDesign scalable database schemas and storage architectures to support high-growth application workloadsImplement advanced data scaling strategies including sharding, partitioning, and high-availability clusteringTriage critical production database incidents and establish long-term preventative engineering solutionsLead cross-functional initiatives for disaster recovery testing, data classification, and major engine upgradesBuild cloud infrastructure using Infrastructure as Code to automate deployment pipelines and environmentsCollaborate with software development teams on complex migrations, schema reviews, and query optimizationParticipate in systemic architecture reviews to provide authoritative database engineering expertiseAutomate operational tasks and third-party API integrations using modern scripting languagesQualifications5+ years of hands-on experience designing, implementing, and operating relational databases in production, plus 3+ years in DevOps, SRE, or software engineeringProduction-scale expertise with relational technologies (i.e. MySQL, PostgreSQL) including backups, replication topologies, indexing, and partitioningAdvanced knowledge of database architecture, data modeling, query optimization, and high-availability / backup & recovery solutionsExtensive experience building cloud infrastructure using Infrastructure as Code (i.e. Terraform, CloudFormation, Pulumi, CDK) within public cloud environments (i.e. AWS)Proficiency in programming languages (i.e. Python, Golang) to drive automation and tool integrationStrong operational familiarity with Linux operating systems, containerization (i.e. Docker), and container orchestrators (i.e. Kubernetes, ECS)Hands-on experience with continuous integration and deployment pipelines (i.e. GitLab, TravisCI, CircleCI, Jenkins)Demonstrated experience deploying monitoring and observability platforms (i.e. Datadog, New Relic)Demonstrated ability to leverage AI tools to improve workflows, streamline execution, or enhance outputsBachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or equivalent work experienceWhat Will Help You SucceedExceptional breadth of interest shown through tangible, self-initiated ventures or deep community involvement; you love trying new things and may possess a demonstrated history of successfully pivoting or starting over in life and workStrong systems thinking and the ability to balance long-term technical objectives with immediate operational prioritiesDeep technical comfort explaining complex architectural trade-offs, cardinality, data types, and engine execution behaviors to other developersA