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SHOPLINE

Total e-commerce platform with social tools

Database Engineer

Full-TimeUpdated on 10/15/2026
No salary listed
Mid
Bachelor's
Taiwan
In Person
DevOps & InfrastructureDatabase Administration

About the job

Requirements
  • Solid hands-on experience operating databases in production, including DBA, DBRE, or database-focused SRE experience.
  • A degree in Computer Science, Information Management, Electronic Engineering, Information Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent practical ability.
  • Hands-on MongoDB operations experience with any architecture.
  • Ability to operate and optimize at least one database.
  • Familiarity with query optimization and troubleshooting techniques.
  • Comfort operating Linux and the Bash shell.
  • Ability to take ownership, pay attention to detail, and complete assigned work.
Responsibilities
  • Ensure database integrity, security, and availability through appropriate design, implementation, and maintenance.
  • Manage and deliver database infrastructure with Terraform and infrastructure as code, making changes version-controlled, reproducible, and reviewable.
  • Design and operate highly available architectures; own capacity planning, backup and restore, and disaster recovery drills to safeguard data and service continuity.
  • Support multi-region and cross-market database architectures, scaling and optimizing them as the business grows.
  • Optimize database performance through tuning, indexing, query optimization, and slow-query analysis.
  • Collaborate with architects and software engineers to integrate database solutions into application architecture.
  • Take ownership of database-related tasks and features, ensuring their timely and successful completion.
  • Establish monitoring and alerting to proactively identify and resolve issues.
  • Participate in production incident handling, debugging, and root cause analysis, and deliver effective solutions.
  • Explore and adopt artificial intelligence and large language models for database operations, including intelligent diagnostics, query optimization suggestions, incident root cause analysis, and operational automation, turning them into tools the team uses.
  • Document processes, configurations, and runbooks for reference and future maintenance.
Desired Qualifications
  • In-depth experience with a second database; NewSQL experience is a plus.
  • Hands-on Terraform and infrastructure-as-code experience.
  • Hands-on Kubernetes experience.
  • Experience operating cloud-managed services.
  • Interest or hands-on experience using artificial intelligence or large language models to assist database operations.
  • MongoDB Associate DBA certification.
  • Experience building or maintaining e-commerce platforms or high-traffic SaaS.
  • Experience working in a fast-paced startup environment.

About the company

SHOPLINE provides a total commerce platform that helps businesses establish and grow their online presence in Asia. Merchants set up stores with customizable themes, sell across multiple channels, and use built-in social commerce tools like Livestream, Chatbot, and a Message/Broadcast Center to turn social engagement into sales, all through a subscription-based platform with optional premium features. It differentiates itself by deep focus on the Asian market and an ecosystem of over 350,000 brands, emphasizing seamless channel integration and social selling. Its goal is to enable brands and merchants to scale online, boost sales across social and e-commerce channels, and build lasting customer relationships from a single dashboard.

Company Size

501-1,000

Company Stage

Early VC

Total Funding

$1.2M

Headquarters

Sham Shui Po District, Hong Kong

Founded

2013

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What believers are saying

  • SHOPLINE said August 2026 it serves 700,000-plus merchants worldwide, up from 600,000.
  • March 2026 YouBiz, June 2026 Trozo, and August 2026 F&F fund expand distribution.
  • June 2025 shipped PayPal, Avalara, multi-store syncing, and AI-powered merchant tooling.

What critics are saying

  • Shopify settled a July 2026 copyright suit over SHOPLINE's Seed theme copy claims.
  • March 2026 YouBiz and June 2026 Trozo integrations deepen partner dependence and switching leverage.
  • Any future template or IP dispute can trigger merchant churn and platform distrust quickly.

What makes SHOPLINE unique

  • SHOPLINE unifies storefronts, social commerce, live shopping, and POS for merchants.
  • Its partner ecosystem exposes Open API integrations, agencies, affiliates, and app developers.
  • It targets Asian omnichannel merchants with localized support across Hong Kong, Taiwan, Singapore.

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6 month growth

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1 year growth

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2 year growth

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Sep 7th, 2023
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