Senior Software Engineer - Cloud Platform Engineering
Company: MariaDB plc
Location: Virginia (Remote)
Salary: $141,000 - $185,000 a year
Type: Full-time
Remote: Yes
Posted: 2026-09-23
About this role
## About MariaDB
Are you ready to shape the infrastructure for a ground breaking cloud database platform? MariaDB is making a big impact on the world. Whether you're checking your bank account, buying a coffee, shopping online, making a phone call, listening to music, taking out a loan or ordering takeout – MariaDB is the backbone of applications used everyday. Companies small and large, including 75% of the Fortune 500, run MariaDB, touching the lives of billions of people. With massive reach through Linux distributions, enterprise deployments and public clouds, MariaDB is uniquely positioned as the leading database for modern application development.
MariaDB Cloud is revolutionizing the way businesses manage their data in the cloud. We're on a mission to provide a seamless, powerful, and user-centric Database-as-a-Service (DBaaS) solution that sets new industry standards. MariaDB Cloud is a Multi-cloud Database-as-a-Service platform offering, specializing in managing MariaDB, one of the most popular open-source relational database systems.
MariaDB Cloud is more than just a database; it's a comprehensive and innovative platform that delivers continuous availability, autonomous operation, and serverless capabilities. We're redefining the database experience to make it more accessible, intuitive, and efficient than ever before.
# The Opportunity
## About the Role
We are seeking a Senior Software Engineer to join a small, high-ownership team building robust cloud infrastructure for our globally deployed relational database engine. You will design and implement the application layers, business logic, and API workflows at the intersection of data management, cloud operations, and relational database services—critical components that enterprise applications depend on for correctness, performance, and governance. This is a hands-on, end-to-end role. You will lead features from whiteboard to production: owning implementation, writing clean and sca...