Senior Software Engineer, Database OEM

<p>We’re a global team of over 400 people, working together to push the boundaries of open-source technology and multi-cloud solutions. Our vision is to help developers, builders, and creators bring their ideas to life with speed and simplicity, by providing a cloud data platform that makes open-source databases, search, streaming, and application infrastructure easily accessible to everyone.&nbsp;</p> <h3><strong>The Role:</strong></h3> <p>We are looking for a<strong> </strong>Senior Software Engineer to join our Database OEM team. This is a highly visible, cross-cutting team focused on delivering Aiven's database services (PostgreSQL, MySQL, and Valkey) to our most strategic, high-revenue partners, ensuring their unique needs, scale, and challenges are met with world-class solutions.</p> <p>In this role, you will be key to designing customer-specific solutions and driving direct and indirect enhancements across these three database services. Success requires close collaboration with internal Product teams to advocate for partner needs and a strong commitment to increasing automation and reaction speed of critical partner requests. You will be expected to balance internal engineering needs with external partner requirements, acting as a crucial interface. Given the high-stakes nature of this work, you must be an excellent communicator with great attention to detail, capable of seamlessly managing context between different high-value customers.</p> <p>Our core philosophy is to automate everything and eliminate repetitive manual work. Our backend systems are primarily implemented in Python, with components in Java, Go, and C.</p> <h3><strong>What You'll Do:</strong></h3> <ul> <li>Write high-quality, maintainable code and release quality features.</li> <li>Participate in technical discussions and perform PR reviews.</li> <li>Contribute to technical planning and backlog management.</li> <li>Help investigate and resolve customer issues.</li> <li>Mentor and empower other engineers.</li> <li>Automate processes to eliminate repetitive manual work.</li> <li>Develop and improve the scalability, reliability, and operational quality of our PostgreSQL, MySQL, and Valkey services in the context of our partners’ offering.</li> </ul> <h3><strong>What We're Looking For:</strong></h3> <p>Don’t worry if your experience doesn’t line up perfectly – we still encourage you to apply! We believe in investing in our crabs’ professional growth.</p> <p><strong>Must Have:</strong></p> <ul> <li>Excellent development skills in Python</li> <li>5+ years of experience working with one of these databases - PostgreSQL, MySQL, MariaDB, Valkey/Redis, or similar</li> <li>Ex