# Staff Database Engineer at Owner

- Company: Owner
- What the company does: Owner gives you the same tools that major national brands use to drive sales. Online ordering proven to grow sales. Mobile app with rewards. And more. Backed by Redpoint.
- Company website: https://www.owner.com
- Type: Startups
- Level: Senior
- Location: Remote - United States
- Work setup: Remote
- Posted: 2026-07-31
- Apply by: 2026-10-08
- Apply: https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/owner/3e4d4c76-4e16-4335-aaba-1d2f38db3cde
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/owner-staff-database-engineer/

## About the role

Using Owner should feel like having a team of great operators, engineers, and marketers working for you. Owner is a remote-first, global company headquartered in San Francisco, with a sales hub in Toronto. For a few of our roles we prioritize in-person collaboration at one of our office locations. Most of our teammates are distributed throughout the globe. Please review the role description and discuss with your recruiter for more details on location!

## What they're looking for

- Hands-on experience working with databases inside the product — owning OLTP access patterns, indexing, query optimization, and schema design as part of building user-facing applications
- Comfortable both writing code in the product stack and reasoning carefully at the database layer
- Deep expertise with a major relational engine (Postgres strongly preferred) in high-volume production, experience migrating workloads (e.g., MongoDB → Postgres) a strong plus
- Expertise in schema design, indexing, query optimization, and zero-downtime migrations on large, live tables
- Experience scaling systems through significant traffic and data growth, in a domain where understanding access patterns at scale is a survival skill — e.g. advertising analytics, fintech / trading systems, large-scale consumer SaaS, or marketplaces
- Strong software engineering ability — writes, reviews, and ships production code, not SQL alone

Tags: Engineering, Product, and Design