Staff Software Engineer Database Infrastructure

Nu is one of the largest digital financial platforms in the world with more than 127 million customers across Brazil Mexico and Colombia.

Guided by our mission to fight complexity and empower people we are redefining financial services in Latin America and beyond and this is still just the beginning of the purple future were building.

We combine proprietary technology data intelligence and an efficient operating model to deliver financial products that are simple accessible and human. Our impact has been recognized by global rankings such as Time 100 Companies Fast Companys Most Innovative Companies and Forbes Worlds Best Bank.

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You will join Foundation Nubanks horizontal platforms organization in the Storage & Databases area. This team is responsible for providing the database infrastructure that powers all of Nubank owning canonical databases (such as DynamoDB and Datomic) common libraries and regulatory data concerns across markets.

As a Staff Software Engineer Foundation you will be a senior technical leader working mostly across Datomic provisioning and caching operating horizontally across the org. Youll design and evolve database and storage platforms that must scale to millions of customers and support Nubanks expansion into new countries while meeting strict regulatory and availability requirements.

This role is a great fit if you love deep database theory and infrastructure enjoy working in highly senior technical environments and want your work to be a critical enabler for dozens of product teams and new geographies.

• Designing and evolving Nubanks storage and database platforms with a primary focus on Datomic provisioning and caching ensuring they serve as reliable foundations for all product teams.
• Owning database infrastructure at scale ensuring performance availability and resiliency for systems that serve millions of customers and very high data volumes.
• Enabling new country launches from a storage and data perspective: guaranteeing that database architectures configurations and operations support new regulatory and scalability requirements as Nubank enters new markets.
• Ensuring regulatory and data-safety compliance including backups multi-region availability strategies and protection of customer data in line with central bank and local regulations.
• Working horizontally across the engineering org collaborating with many different teams that consume storage and database services and shaping shared libraries patterns and best practices they rely on.
• Participating in and leading incident response for storage and database-related production issues helping teams debug complex failures under pressure and designing long-term fixes.
• Multiplying expertise in a very senior environment mentoring other engineers and helping them navigate a deep complex technical context over time.

Required

• Deep experience with databases: strong grounding in database theory and database infrastructure (design operations performance reliability).
• Hands-on experience with large-scale data systems having supported services with millions of users and/or very high data and traffic volumes.
• Strong familiarity with at least some of the technologies in our ecosystem such as Kubernetes Clojure and Datomic or comparable stacks and the ability to adapt and learn our specific tools.
• Backgrounds such as Database Administrator Systems Engineer Infrastructure Engineer DevOps Engineer or Software Engineer with a clear emphasis on databases and distributed systems.
• Proven ability to work in horizontal/platform teams building and operating shared infrastructure and libraries used by many product teams.
• Excellent communication skills and emotional resilience: comfortable interacting with many teams often in high-stress situations like production incidents and able to keep a constructive solutions-oriented posture.
• High learning agility and patience to navigate a very senior deep technical environment including working with peers at Staff and Principal level across Foundation.

Nice to have

• Experience in financial services or other regulated industries (not mandatory).
• Prior responsibility for multi-region high-availability database architectures.

• United States any Nubank US office location

• Hybrid 23 times/week: Our hybrid work model brings us to the office at least twice a week on strategic days designed to maximize team connection and collaboration. For more details visit Benefits United States

  For employees based in the US we offer:

  • Opportunity of earning equity at Nu
  • Total compensation includes base salary RSUs and benefits. Base salary range: $192k - $345k
  • Medical Insurance
  • Dental and Vision Insurance
  • Life Insurance and AD&D
  • Extended maternity and paternity leaves
  • Nucleo our learning platform of courses
  • NuLanguage our language learning program
  • NuCare our mental health and wellness assistance program
  • 401(k)
  • Saving Plans Health Saving Account and Flexible Spending Account
  • Work-from-home Allowance
  • Relocation Assistance Package if applicable
  Location-Specific Disclosures
  • Palo Alto: Total compensation includes base salary RSUs and benefits. Base salary range: $19.200 - $24.000
  Join us

  If you want to work at the heart of Nubanks infrastructure building and operating the storage and database platforms that enable our products to scale to millions of customers and new countries wed love to hear from you.

  Apply now to be our Staff Software Engineer Foundation (Storage & Databases) in the US.