About the Role

iCapital is looking to hire a DevOps Database Engineer to join the Platform Infrastructure team. This role is responsible for owning the performance, reliability, security, and operation of the company’s SQL and NoSQL database platforms.  The role operates within a database team who partners with application engineering, platform, and security teams to ensure databases are scalable, resilient, secure, and observable across all environments.

Responsibilities

• Own end to end performance of SQL and NoSQL databases across environments, including query optimization, indexing strategies, execution plan analysis, and tuning of database runtime parameters (i.e. PostgreSQL query plans, MongoDB indexes, DynamoDB access patterns).
• Prevent performance regressions proactively through representative load testing, performance analysis tooling, and CI or CD validation gates.
• Partner with application teams on schema design, data modeling, and workload driven performance improvements, including relational schemas, document models, and NoSQL access patterns.
• Design, operate, and harden production grade SQL, NoSQL, and document database systems with strong replication, failover, backup or restore, and security controls.
• Define, implement, and validate backup and disaster recovery strategies, including routine restore testing and compliance with RPO and RTO objectives.
• Establish SLIs and SLOs for database health, including latency, error rates, contention, replication lag, storage growth, and cache efficiency across SQL and NoSQL databases.
• Deliver actionable dashboards and alerts and maintain operational runbooks alongside up to date documentation.
• Lead or participate in production incident response and post incident reviews related to database platforms.
• Enforce database security best practices in partnership with InfoSec, including least privilege access, RBAC, auditing, encryption, secure secret handling, access reviews, and secure service to database authentication across SQL and NoSQL data stores.
• Codify database infrastructure and operations using Infrastructure as Code such as Terraform and CI or CD pipelines.
• Standardize baseline configurations, schema migration practices, and operational guardrails across relational, document, and NoSQL databases.

Qualifications

• Hands‑on experience operating production‑scale SQL and NoSQL databases, with strong troubleshooting skills under pressure
• Experience with managed cloud database services, including SQL and NoSQL databases (i.e. AWS RDS and Aurora PostgreSQL, MongoDB Atlas, DocumentDB, DynamoDB)
• Deep expertise across the following areas like performance tuning, indexing, query optimization, vacuum/auto vacuum, bloat management, data modeling, backup/restore, capacity planning, scalability design, and cost and performance tradeoffs
• Experience with observability, alerting, and operational metrics for data platforms
• Automation‑first mindset with hands‑on experience in Infrastructure as Code, Gitlab CI/CD pipelines, and repeatable operational runbooks
• Experience with IAM‑based access controls, KMS and encryption, secrets management, and compliance‑driven governance controls
• Proven experience developing and maintaining Terraform modules
• Strong Linux fundamentals and scripting experience such as Bash or Python
• Experience with Docker and Kubernetes for database‑adjacent workloads

Benefits

The base salary range for this role is $110,000 to $135,000 depending on level.  iCapital offers a compensation package which includes salary, equity for all full-time employees, and an annual performance bonus. Employees also receive a comprehensive benefits package that includes an employer matched retirement plan, generously subsidized healthcare with 100% employer paid dental, vision, telemedicine, and virtual mental health counseling, parental leave, and unlimited paid time off (PTO).

We believe the best ideas and innovation happen when we are together. Employees in this role will work in the office Monday-Thursday, with the flexibility to work remotely on Friday.

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iCapital is proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity and Affirmative Action employer. We do not discriminate based upon race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, status as a protected veteran, status as an individual with a disability, or other applicable legally protected characteristics.

The mission of Speechify is to make sure that reading is never a barrier to learning.

Over 50 million people use Speechify’s text-to-speech products to turn whatever they’re reading – PDFs, books, Google Docs, news articles, websites – into audio, so they can read faster, read more, and remember more. Speechify’s text-to-speech reading products include its iOS app, Android App, Mac App, Chrome Extension, and Web App. Google recently named Speechify the Chrome Extension of the Year and Apple named Speechify its 2025 Design Award winner for Inclusivity.  

Today, nearly 200 people around the globe work on Speechify in a 100% distributed setting – Speechify has no office. These include frontend and backend engineers, AI research scientists, and others from Amazon, Microsoft, and Google, leading PhD programs like Stanford, high growth startups like Stripe, Vercel, Bolt, and many founders of their own companies.

Overview

We're looking to hire for our Data side of our AI team at Speechify. This role is responsible for all aspects of data collection to support our model training operations. We are able to build high-quality datasets at petabyte-scale and low cost through a tight integration of infrastructure, engineering, and research work. We are looking for a skilled Software Engineer to join us.

What You’ll Do

• Be scrappy to find new sources of audio data and bring it into our ingestion pipeline
• Operate and extend the cloud infrastructure for our ingestion pipeline, currently running on GCP and managed with Terraform.
• Collaborate closely with our Scientists to shift the cost/throughput/quality frontier, delivering richer data at bigger scale and lower cost to power our next-generation models.
• Collaborate with others on the AI Team and Speechify Leadership to craft the AI Team’s dataset roadmap to power Speechify’s next-generation consumer and enterprise products.

An Ideal Candidate Should Have

• BS/MS/PhD in Computer Science or a related field.
• 5+ years of industry experience in software development.
• Proficiency with bash/Python scripting in Linux environments
• Proficiency in Docker and Infrastructure-as-Code concepts and professional experience with at least one major Cloud Provider (we use GCP)
• Experience with web crawlers, large-scale data processing workflows is a plus
• Ability to handle multiple tasks and adapt to changing priorities.
• Strong communication skills, both written and verbal.

What we offer

• A fast-growing environment where you can help shape the company and product.
• An entrepreneurial-minded team that supports risk, intuition, and hustle.
• A hands-off management approach so you can focus and do your best work.
• An opportunity to make a big impact in a transformative industry.
• Competitive salaries, a friendly and laid-back atmosphere, and a commitment to building a great asynchronous culture.
• Opportunity to work on a life-changing product that millions of people use.
• Build products that directly impact and support people with learning differences like dyslexia, ADD, low vision, concussions, autism, and more.
• Work in one of the fastest-growing sectors of tech, the intersection of artificial intelligence and audio.

Compensation: The United States base salary range for this full-time position is $140,000-$200,000 + bonus + equity depending on experience

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Speechify is committed to a diverse and inclusive workplace. 

Speechify does not discriminate on the basis of race, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, protected veteran status, disability, age, or other legally protected status.