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 off
- A culture built on innovation that values big ideas, no matter where they come from
- A MacBook set up and ready from day one, plus a $500 stipend to design your ideal workspace
- Central European Time (CET) hours to support a balanced schedule for our Poland-based team
- Equity in a rapidly growing startup backed by top-tier VCs
🚀 About the role
As 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: 10 000 - 10 700 USD per month (B2B)
What You'll Do Each Day
Own the observability, monitoring, and alerting of production database clusters and replication topologies
Optimize database engine configurations for performance, stability, compliance, and security
Design scalable database schemas and storage architectures to support high-growth application workloads
Implement advanced data scaling strategies including sharding, partitioning, and high-availability clustering
Triage critical production database incidents and establish long-term preventative engineering solutions
Lead cross-functional initiatives for disaster recovery testing, data classification, and major engine upgrades
Build cloud infrastructure using Infrastructure as Code to automate deployment pipelines and environmentsCollaborate with software development teams on complex migrations, schema reviews, and query optimization
Participate in systemic architecture reviews to provide authoritative database engineering expertise
Automate operational tasks and third-party API integrations using modern scripting languages
Qualifications
5+ years of hands-on experience designing, implementing, and operating relational databases in production, plus 3+ years in DevOps, SRE, or software engineering
Production-scale expertise with relational technologies (i.e. MySQL, PostgreSQL) including backups, replication topologies, indexing, and partitioning
Advanced knowledge of database architecture, data modeling, query optimization, and high-availability / backup & recovery solutions
Extensive 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 integration
Strong 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 outputs
Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or equivalent work experience
What Will Help You Succeed
Exceptional 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 work
Strong systems thinking and the ability to balance long-term technical objectives with immediate operational priorities
Deep technical comfort explaining complex architectural trade-offs, cardinality, data types, and engine execution behaviors to other developers
A genuine passion for data-driven decision-making and troubleshooting distributed architectures
Familiarity with data streaming or ETL architectures (i.e. Kafka, Confluent Cloud)
Sounds interesting? We're waiting for your resume!
This role is open to candidates in Poland. The specific salary for the successful candidate will be determined based on permissible, non-discriminatory factors such as skills and experience.
Founded in 2013, Housecall Pro helps home service professionals (Pros) streamline every aspect of their business. With easy-to-use tools for scheduling, dispatching, payments, and more, Housecall Pro enables Pros to save time, grow profitably, and provide best-in-class service.
Housecall Pro’s brand portfolio includes Business Coaching by Housecall Pro, a business coaching solution for home services businesses. Our brands are united by a singular mission to champion our Pros to success.
We support more than 50,000 businesses and have over 2,000 ambitious, mission-driven, genuinely fun-loving teammates across the globe. If you want to do work that impacts real people, supported by a team that will invest in you every step of the way, we’d love to hear from you.
Housecall Pro celebrates diversity and we are committed to creating an inclusive environment. We are an equal opportunity employer and do not discriminate on the basis of gender, race, religion, national origin, ethnicity, disability, gender identity/expression, sexual orientation, veteran or military status, or any other category protected under the law. #LI-Remote
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Skills Required
- 5+ years hands-on experience designing, implementing, and operating relational databases in production plus 3+ years in DevOps, SRE, or software engineering
- Production-scale expertise with relational technologies (MySQL, PostgreSQL) including backups, replication topologies, indexing, and partitioning
- Advanced knowledge of database architecture, data modeling, query optimization, and high-availability / backup & recovery solutions
- Extensive experience building cloud infrastructure using Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, CloudFormation, Pulumi, CDK) in public cloud environments (AWS)
- Proficiency in programming languages for automation (Python, Golang)
- Strong operational familiarity with Linux, Docker, and container orchestrators (Kubernetes, ECS)
- Hands-on experience with CI/CD pipelines (GitLab, TravisCI, CircleCI, Jenkins)
- Experience deploying monitoring and observability platforms (Datadog, New Relic)
- Demonstrated ability to leverage AI tools to improve workflows
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or equivalent work experience
- Familiarity with data streaming or ETL architectures (Kafka, Confluent Cloud)
- Experience leading disaster recovery testing, major engine upgrades, and cross-functional database initiatives
