Job Overview
Location
Redwood City
Job Type
Full-time
Category
Software Engineering
Date Posted
July 16, 2026
Full Job Description
đź“‹ Description
- • Build a safer world with us, one incident at a time.
- • Design, build, and scale the database platform that powers our most critical production and AI systems.
- • Work at the intersection of databases, distributed systems, application architecture, and AI infrastructure.
- • Help scale relational, analytical, and vector data stores across both the database layer and the application layer.
- • Design systems for partitioning, sharding, routing, caching, replication, query optimization, and high-availability operations.
- • Work closely with AI teams to build the data infrastructure that supports modern AI applications.
- • Partner with engineering teams to design data access patterns that are scalable, reliable, and performant.
- • Identify bottlenecks in production systems and drive improvements across application, database, cache, and infrastructure layers.
- • Define and enforce best practices for schema design, database usage, data lifecycle management, and operational safety.
- • Help evolve our long-term data platform strategy as the company scales.
- • Operate tier-0 data services with strong reliability, observability, incident response, and disaster recovery practices.
- • Build automation and tooling to improve database provisioning, migrations, monitoring, backups, failover, and capacity planning.
🎯 Requirements
- • 7+ years of industry experience in database infrastructure, backend infrastructure, distributed systems, or production platform engineering.
- • Deep hands-on experience operating and scaling production databases in high-availability environments.
- • Strong experience with relational databases such as PostgreSQL, MySQL, Aurora, CockroachDB, Vitess, or similar systems.
- • Experience with analytical data stores such as ClickHouse, BigQuery, Snowflake, Redshift, Druid, Pinot, or similar technologies.
- • Experience with vector databases or vector search systems such as pgvector, Pinecone, Milvus, OpenSearch, or similar systems.
🏖️ Benefits
- • Comprehensive health + welfare package (Medical, Dental, Vision, Life, EAP, Legal Services, 401k plan).
- • Flexible time off to rest and recharge, including Winter Break (time off between Christmas and New Year’s for most roles, depending on customer demand).
- • The latest tech and awesome swag will be delivered to your door.
- • Enjoy a full range of opportunities to connect with your awesome co-workers.
- • We offer regular Full-time employees receive stock options for the opportunity to share ownership in the success of our company.
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About Ambient AI Inc.
Ambient AI builds computer-vision software for physical security. Its platform runs on existing cameras, continuously monitoring environments to detect threats such as unauthorized access, weapons, or safety incidents in real time. Using proprietary AI models, it filters out false alarms and sends actionable alerts to security teams. The system integrates with access control and video management systems, providing forensic search and analytics for retail, enterprise, and critical infrastructure. Founded in 2017 and headquartered in San Jose, California, the company serves Fortune 500 customers seeking to reduce reliance on human monitoring and improve incident response.
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