Senior Database Engineer

As a Senior Database Engineer at Tekion, you will design, automate, and optimize database operations across our cloud-native automotive retail platform, connecting OEMs, dealerships, partners, and consumers. You'll be working on scaling problems, laying down processes and streamlining requirements to actual executable tasks.

Requirements

• 4+ years of experience as an engineer in a relevant role and responsibilities
• Strong foundation in distributed systems and database fundamentals
• Deep understanding of transaction semantics, isolation levels, MVCC, locking, concurrency failure modes, storage engines and DB internals
• Strong Python skills for building production-grade automation and diagnostics tooling
• Hands-on experience operating and tuning production databases (MongoDB and at least one SQL system such as MySQL, PostgreSQL, MariaDB etc)
• Strong debugging and performance analysis skills; comfortable working from metrics, logs, traces, and low-level symptoms
• Experience working with Linux and familiarity with common commands

Benefits

• Opportunity to work on a cloud-native automotive platform
• Collaboration with application teams to design safe data access patterns, migration strategies, and operational standards
• Mentorship and growth opportunities within the company