Staff Cloud Database Engineer

WeightWatchers is a global digital health company.

WeightWatchers is a global digital health company and the world’s #1 doctor-recommended, clinically studied behavioral weight health program. For sixty years, we have led the industry by blending science and community to help millions of people build sustainable healthy habits.

As the science of weight health rapidly evolves, so does WeightWatchers. We are redefining the category by developing new clinical pathways for GLP-1 medication access, creating specialized behavioral programs for members on weight-loss medications, and integrating medical care with our proven habit-change framework. By combining these clinical breakthroughs with our digital-first community, we are uniquely positioned to lead the future of weight health care.

Who We Are

At WeightWatchers, our Engineering Team drives transformative change by leveraging technology to redefine how millions approach weight health and wellness. The team builds digital solutions that establish personalized connections and foster inclusive virtual communities, empowering members to adopt healthier habits and achieve lasting lifestyle changes. From pioneering a comprehensive telehealth platform, optimizing medication access, diving headfirst into exciting AI integrations we lead with data-driven innovations that revolutionize healthcare outcomes. Our culture thrives on urgency, collaboration, and a passion for impactful work that directly improves the lives of our members.

What You Will Do

We are seeking an adaptable and experienced Cloud Database Engineer with strong expertise in cloud-hosted database platforms and database-as-a-service. The ideal candidate will have deep experience with open-source database technologies (PostgreSQL, MySQL, MongoDB, and cloud-native databases) and thrive in a collaborative, peer-driven environment.

This is an opportunity to design, develop, and manage enterprise-level database systems with complex interdependencies, focusing on high availability, clustering, performance, security, and scalability.

This role will be instrumental in modernizing WW’s global data infrastructure, ensuring millions of members have secure and reliable access to personalized experiences.

Responsibilities

• Lead lifecycle management: schema design, migrations, replication, partitioning, upgrades, and DR planning.
• Architect, administer, and optimize high-availability PostgreSQL clusters supporting both OLTP and OLAP workloads.
• Automate processes to improve availability and scalability in production environments.
• Collaborate cross-functionally with application, SRE, and data engineering teams to align platform strategy.
• Support large-scale database instances across production, non-production, and development environments.
• Participate in rotational on-call and maintenance support for database infrastructure.
• Perform regular upgrades, patching, and vulnerability remediation.
• Support database scalability and future growth initiatives.
• Define and enforce best practices around query optimization, indexing, and performance tuning.
• Partner with InfoSec and Compliance teams to ensure security, privacy, and HIPAA/SOC2/GDPR alignment.

Who you are:

• Extensive hands-on experience (8+ years) managing mission-critical production workloads, with deep expertise in PostgreSQL, MySQL and MongoDB.
• Experience participating in or collaborating with distributed on-call teams supporting mission-critical systems (internal or external).
• Expertise in database architecture, design, replication, clustering, HA/DR.
• Strong experience with Linux/Unix environments.
• Hands-on experience with AWS, GCP, or Azure cloud platforms.
• Proven ability to manage highly available clustered database services across multiple Linux flavors.
• Familiarity with infrastructure automation tools (CloudFormation, Terraform, Ansible).
• Knowledge of streaming technologies (Kafka) is preferred.
• Exposure to modern DevOps tooling and container orchestration (Kubernetes, Docker).