Senior DBA​/Database Architect; Florida

About The Company

Lateral stands for technology excellence. We’re a profitable, award‑winning design and technology company with over 20 years of experience launching bold ventures and transforming businesses. A globally distributed team of 200+ experts united by a shared purpose: the continuous pursuit of quality. Our clients come to us for results, quality and craft - and stay because we keep raising the bar.

Our mission is simple:
design and build great products
. What sets us apart isn’t just the talent of our team - it’s the way we work:

• Bias For Action & Results. We are doers - we spot gaps, connect the dots, anticipate what’s around the corner and take action. We move fast, stay focused, and let the results – not the effort – speak for themselves.
• Work On Time, On Budget, On Quality. Discipline is our edge – a commitment we make to each other, to our clients, and to the standards we hold ourselves to.
• Care Deeply. We care about our work and about each other. Every detail matters. Thoughtful by default.
• We do things right, integrity isn’t negotiable. We take pride in doing great work the right way – not the easy way.
• We keep improving—iterate, reflect, adapt quickly. Progress over perfection.
• We’re obsessed with agility, not the Agile Manifesto.
• Take Ownership. Everyone leads something here. You will have room to run with ideas, and the trust to execute.

As a Senior DBA & Database Architect at Lateral, you will:

• Design and optimize real‑time databases and data systems to meet evolving client, product, and business needs – with a focus on performance, quality, and scalability.
• Tune, product ionize, and optimize data systems and machine learning models to enhance their effectiveness and efficiency.
• Take ownership of features end‑to‑end, from initial concept through deployment. You’ll often drive substantial product features as the key developer alongside an architect, backend developer or analyst.
• Mentor and support junior engineers, leading by example in design reviews and pair programming. Offer constructive feedback that helps others grow, fostering a thoughtful, kind and continuously learning team culture.
• Provide technical leadership in architecture and design discussions, advocating for simple, elegant solutions. Challenge unnecessary complexity and focus on pragmatic results.
• Continuously refine systems balancing new development with technical debt management to keep solutions stable and adaptable.
• Champion best practices in quality, security and operations, including CI/CD, monitoring and privacy compliance.

• Build an AI‑powered healthcare platform to help detect diseases earlier.
• Launch a new fintech product from the ground up.
• Scale a global SaaS commerce system with millions of products.

In the first two weeks

• Make your first meaningful contribution to the project.
• Communicate well async as well as in meetings.

In the first three months

• Understand the system architecture well and can work independently or in teams on medium‑sized features.
• Design before you code (and produce design artifacts).
• Have shipped code in Production, clean, tested.
• Communicate clearly, raising issues early and contributing to reviews.
• Deliver what you commit to.

After three months

• Take ownership of larger features and improvements from start to finish.
• Help others by sharing knowledge, spotting problems early and improving processes or tooling.
• Make decisions with both the data/codebase and business goals in mind.

• Evaluating results (what you’ve shipped).
• Quality and reliability of your designs.
• Consistency in delivery.
• Feedback from peers and leads.
• Your ability to work independently and unblock others.

We are seeking team members who are both highly technical and deeply care about their craft and how the work gets done. You must bring:

• 7+ years experience in database engineering or administration.
• Deep expertise in SQL, relational databases, data modeling and transactional design.
• Hands‑on experience with ETL pipelines and data warehouses, optimizing data flows across systems.
• Proven…