Database Technical Lead

4 days ago


Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa Prisma Data, Inc. Full time
Job Description

We are seeking a highly skilled DATABASE TECHNICAL LEAD to join our team at Prisma Data, Inc. As a Senior Engineering Manager, you will own the core commercial infrastructure and products, ensuring they scale to millions of users while maintaining performance and reliability.

Your Responsibilities
  • People: Empower your engineering team to achieve technical excellence and meaningful impact by ensuring they have the support and resources to do their best work. This includes providing constructive feedback, creating learning and growth opportunities, and challenging them to improve.
  • Process: Optimize and refine development processes and technical practices to drive continuous improvement. You will lead engineering team meetings to plan and prioritize work, run retrospectives to identify improvements, and establish policies that enhance communication, collaboration, and code quality.
  • Delivery: Success for your team means consistently delivering high-quality software that provides value while maintaining a sustainable pace. You will collaborate closely with the Product Manager to prioritize product initiatives, define the roadmap, and drive technical improvements.
About Us

We're redefining how developers work with databases at Prisma Data, Inc. We believe in empowering our engineers to achieve technical excellence and meaningful impact. Our team is small but distributed, making advanced database technology accessible to developers everywhere.

Requirements
  • 8+ Years proven leadership in software engineering teams, with hands-on experience as a software engineer.
  • Experience in database and backend technologies, including TypeScript, PostgreSQL, and familiarity with cloud services (we work with Cloudflare), APIs, and developer tooling is a plus.
  • Experience managing highly available production backends including incident prevention and management, risk management, well-designed systems, balancing tech debt with delivery.
  • High standards for quality, ensuring excellence while balancing pragmatism, purpose, and a strong sense of agency—taking ownership, making thoughtful trade-offs, and driving meaningful impact.
  • Focused on helping your team understand the why.
  • Strong communication skills in English, both written and verbal—able to articulate complex ideas clearly, adapt messaging to different audiences, give and receive constructive feedback effectively, and foster collaboration across teams.
  • You have a structured thought process, approaching problems methodically and making well-reasoned decisions. You plan effectively, setting clear goals, anticipating challenges, and ensuring smooth execution while keeping stakeholders aligned.


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