Data Engineer Database Management
AlertMediaMexico City, Mexico
Full Time
Posted February 17, 2026
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Job Description
A hands-on Database Engineer responsible for designing, operating, and optimizing large-scale search and data infrastructure, including Elasticsearch, relational databases, and advanced search architectures, to support AlertMedia's real-time risk intelligence platform.
Key Responsibilities
- Design, scale, and operate Elasticsearch clusters supporting large-scale ingest and low-latency query workloads
- Architect and optimize hybrid search systems combining keyword and vector semantic retrieval
- Implement and tune vector search, semantic search pipelines, and ranking strategies such as RRF
- Improve indexing strategies, shard design, mappings, analyzers, and query performance
- Design and maintain relational database systems (Postgres, MySQL) supporting application and data workloads
- Monitor, troubleshoot, and optimize cluster health, capacity, scaling, and cost efficiency
- Contribute to architecture decisions around storage, indexing, retrieval, and relevance
- Operate and manage data pipelines, ingestion systems, and indexing pipelines
- Collaborate with data engineering teams to optimize data ingestion pipelines for search and database performance
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field preferred.
- 5 years of experience in database engineering, search engineering, or backend data platform roles.
- Expert level hands-on experience with Elasticsearch at scale, including cluster design, tuning, scaling, and operations.
- Experience designing and implementing vector search, semantic retrieval, hybrid search, and ranking strategies such as Reciprocal Rank Fusion (RRF).
- Strong understanding of search relevance concepts including BM25, analyzers, scoring, and boosting.
- Solid experience with relational databases such as Postgres or MySQL, including schema design and query optimization.
- Experience with high-throughput ingest systems and indexing pipelines.
- Experience with AWS or other cloud platforms.
- Strong proficiency in Python and SQL.
- Excellent organizational skills and ability to manage multiple pipelines and priorities.
- Ability and desire to work in a fast-paced, technically challenging environment.
- English proficiency, both written and oral.
- Experience operating vector databases or Approximate Nearest Neighbor (ANN) systems such as FAISS, Milvus, OpenSearch vector, or pgvector.
Benefits & Perks
Competitive Base Salary
Annual Company Bonus
100% Employer-Paid Medical, Dental, and Vision Coverage
Parental Leave Program
Christmas Bonus
Aguinaldo
Generous Vacation and Holiday Policy
Monthly Work-from-Home Stipend
All Necessary Equipment Provided (Laptop, monitor, accessories)
Recognition Rewards
Language Immersion Program (English, Spanish, etc.)
Continuous Learning Opportunities (mentorship, tech talks, career development sessions)
Award-Winning Culture
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