Senior Manager of Database Platform

Join NodeZero as the Senior Manager of Database Platform, where you will lead the engineering team responsible for the data infrastructure that underpins every pentest, finding, and report. You will own the design, operation, and reliability of our core data layer, currently utilizing PostgreSQL and Neo4j. Your responsibilities will include team building and culture, data architecture, reliability and operations, data modeling and schema governance, cross-team partnership, and acting as a product owner. This is a remote position with numerous career advancement opportunities and a collaborative, innovation-driven culture.

• Lead the Database Platform team responsible for the data infrastructure that underpins every NodeZero pentest, finding, and report.
• Own the design, operation, and reliability of the core data layer, currently PostgreSQL as the primary store and Neo4j for the asset graph.
• Hire, mentor, and grow the Database Platform team to full capacity, establishing database engineering norms and a culture of ownership.

• Demonstrated experience leading teams that design, scale, and operate relational databases (PostgreSQL preferred) and hybrid data stores (graph, time-series, or document) in production at scale
• Drives high-impact architecture decisions rigorously — requires design documents, runs structured reviews, builds consensus across platform teams
• Experience building or significantly growing an engineering team — including hiring, onboarding, and establishing engineering norms tailored for data-intensive systems
• Strong understanding of database performance: query optimization, indexing strategies, EXPLAIN analysis, and connection pooling
• Familiarity with graph databases (Neo4j, AWS Neptune) or time-series stores (TimescaleDB, InfluxDB) is a strong plus
• Kubernetes and containerized database operations — stateful workload management
• Experience with AWS data services: RDS/Aurora, DynamoDB, ElastiCache, or equivalent
• Experience with multi-tenant data architectures: customer data isolation, row-level security, and data residency concerns
• Proficient in Go, Python, or SQL (deep expertise)
• Experience defining schema migration strategies for high-velocity production environments with zero-downtime requirements
• Able to partner effectively with a Principal Engineer and leverage their technical leadership without diminishing team ownership
• Proven ability to define and instill engineering culture: rigorous schema review, data integrity standards, operational runbooks, and oncall rotation
• Production experience with PostgreSQL at scale: partitioning, logical replication, pg_bouncer/pgpool, read replicas
• Background in cybersecurity data, threat intelligence feeds, or vulnerability databases
• Familiarity with analytical query patterns: BI tooling, OLAP workloads, or customer-facing analytics
• Experience with data platform compliance: SOC 2, FedRAMP, or GDPR/CCPA data handling requirements
• Experience operating databases in multi-region or active-active configurations