Database Platform Staff Engineer
Magnite
Database Platform Staff Engineer
Magnite
Independent sell-side platform for programmatic advertising
Database Platform Engineer
India
Magnite (NASDAQ: MGNI) is the world’s largest independent sell-side advertising platform. Publishers use our technology to monetize their content across all screens and formats including CTV, online video, display, and audio. Our tech fuels billions of transactions per day! At Magnite, we cultivate an environment of continuous growth and collaboration. Our work impacts what millions of people read, watch, and buy, and we’re looking for people to help us tackle that responsibility with creativity and focus.
Magnite is the world's largest independent sell-side advertising platform. Our infrastructure processes trillions of ad requests per day, backed by several hundred database instances spanning on-premise datacenters and AWS.
The DBA team is looking for an experienced database platform engineer to lead the technical direction for how our databases are built, operated, and scaled. We're maturing the team's hybrid cloud infrastructure, and we need someone fluent in the current industry-standard technologies who can bring those practices to a team with deep operational expertise. We have footprints both on-premises and in the public cloud; our goal is common practices across them, not consolidation onto a single platform.
This is a hands-on individual contributor role. Your influence comes from the systems you build, the standards you set, and the engineers you mentor. You'll be working with many engineering teams, including software engineering, data engineering, SRE, and production engineering.
Set technical direction
Own the architecture of the infrastructure-as-code behind every database platform we run - Terraform for provisioning, Puppet for configuration
Unify how the team builds tooling and automation across on-premise and cloud, replacing platform-by-platform approaches with common patterns
Define what production-ready means for a database platform here, and hold new systems to it
Take on database problems that have no clear owner or defined approach, and define both
Build, don't just specify
Build the reference implementations that turn a proposal into the team's default way of working
Build the golden paths that let engineering teams provision, change, and operate databases without the DBA team becoming a bottleneck including versioned, automated schema change management
Engage with the analytics team to shape how we incorporate cloud native platforms like Snowflake and Databricks seamlessly.
Write the design documents and decision records that become the team's institutional memory
Operate, automate, and stay audit-ready
Identify systemic sources of operational toil and eliminate them through automation
Support the team's recurring SOX and compliance audit obligations, including access reviews and change management evidence
Build those controls and evidence trails into the platform, so audit readiness is automatic rather than manual
Participate in the team's shared 24/7 on-call rotation
Lead through influence
Mentor current team members technically, building platform engineering practice: self-service, versioned interfaces, automation treated as a product
Set technical direction in design discussions across the organization, and drive adoption of the patterns you establish
Raise the technical bar of the engineers around you through design review, pairing, and the quality of your own work
We’re looking for someone with:
6+ years designing and operating production database platforms at scale
Deep expertise across relational platforms — MySQL and its variants, PostgreSQL, RDS, Aurora
Substantial experience running production database platforms at scale in both public cloud and on-premise — managed and self-managed services in AWS or equivalent, plus datacenter infrastructure — and you can speak to where the two genuinely differ
Several years hands-on with Snowflake or Databricks, with enough depth to guide platform decisions rather than only operate what exists
Infrastructure-as-code at a scale where module design and state management decisions carry real consequences — strong Terraform, plus configuration management experience with Puppet, Ansible, or Chef (Puppet preferred)
Schema migration and orchestration tooling — Flyway, Airflow, Jenkins or equivalents
Fluency in SQL, Python, and Bash — enough to build tooling, not only to operate it
How you work
A track record of establishing technical standards that teams you don't manage adopted
Experience growing platform capability in engineers rooted in operations
Hands-on experience supporting SOX or comparable compliance audits in a database context, and a genuine appreciation for why those controls exist
Adjacent technologies such as Kafka, Hadoop, Aerospike, Kubernetes, or Spark
Experience with databases in high-volume, low-latency environments such as adtech, fintech, or large-scale e-commerce
Working hours: This role requires substantial daily overlap with US business hours to collaborate with engineering teams across the organization.
On-call: This role is part of the team's shared 24/7 on-call rotation.
Perks and Benefits:
Comprehensive Healthcare Coverage from Day One
Generous Time Off
Holiday Breaks and Quarterly Wellness Days
Equity and Employee Stock Purchase Plan
Family-Focused Benefits and Parental Leave
Disability and Life Insurance
Cell Phone Subsidy
Fitness and Wellness Reimbursement
Company Culture:
We believe collaboration is essential to success. Magnite’s hybrid schedule includes two days worked remotely (Monday and Friday) and three days on-site (Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday). Our offices provide lunches, beverages, snacks, training and development, and office events to support your work week. We also understand you have appointments, families, hobbies, and other commitments. Magnite strives to maintain a healthy work/life integration for all employees so you can bring your best every day - both at work and at home.
Magnite Invests in You:
Career Development Initiatives and a Career Growth Framework
Culture and Inclusion Programs
Bonusly Peer-to-Peer Recognition Program
Community Service and Volunteer Events
Company-Matched Charitable Contributions
Mental Health Support
About Us
The world's leading agencies and brands trust our platform to access brand-safe, high-quality ad inventory and execute billions of advertising transactions each month. Anchored in bustling New York City, sunny Los Angeles, mile-high Denver, historic London, and down under in Sydney, Magnite has offices across North America, EMEA, LATAM, and APAC.
Our Commitment: We aim to incorporate a wide range of voices into our Magnite culture, cultivating an environment where employees feel welcomed, cared for, and encouraged to freely share ideas. We are committed to employee growth, collaboration, inclusion, and innovation. We invest in Magnite’s local communities. We seek talent from all backgrounds to champion corporate values of seeing the big picture and being catalysts of change.
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Recruiting Agency Notice
Magnite does not accept agency resumes and is not responsible for any fees related to unsolicited resumes.
Magnite is a sell-side advertising platform that helps publishers and media owners monetize their ad space through programmatic transactions. It automates buying and selling across a global inventory, including Connected TV, with tools to optimize yield and protect brands from fraud. It stays independent and does not compete with its clients, emphasizing transparency and collaboration, and it supports open standards like Prebid.org. Its goal is to maximize publishers’ revenue while giving advertisers scalable, brand-safe inventory.
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