Team Lead Database Engineering

SoSafe has the ambition to become the leading human risk management provider in Europe. Our award-winning awareness platform triggers behavioural change by providing effective and engaging training and simulations on cybersecurity and data protection. Cybercrime is costing the world >$10 trillion annually and growing by 15% p.a. - we invite you to be part of the solution!

Here's how you'll make a difference:

• Own and head SoSafe’s Database Platform, a business-critical enabler across our products

• Grow the Database Platform team with a strong focus on ownership and excellence

• Define future strategy to establish standards, tooling and automation in changing landscape toward micro-services/micro-databases

• Translate company and engineering strategy into a clear, outcome-driven roadmap, balancing reliability, scalability, compliance and new capabilities

• Ensure databases are reliable, scalable, observable and cost-efficient

• Build strong partnerships with Product and other Platform teams to maximize impact across the organization

What makes you a great fit:

• You have led and grown engineering teams

• You bring strong people leadership experience and enjoy coaching, developing and growing experienced engineers

• You’re comfortable heading teams through ambiguity, turning strategy into action and measurable outcomes

• You have experience running databases in cloud-native environments, ideally with platforms like PostgreSQL and managed services such as AWS RDS or Aurora (or equivalent solutions on other cloud providers)

• You value reliability and operational excellence as much as feature delivery

• You think in platforms and products, treating experience squads as your customers

• You communicate clearly and confidently with both technical and non-technical stakeholders

You’re familiar with - or excited to work with - the following areas:

• Designing and running relational database platforms based on PostgreSQL, including managed services such as AWS RDS and Aurora

• Using GitHub for version control and Infrastructure as Code approaches (e.g. Terraform) to manage cloud and platform resources

• Evolving a distributed system landscape, including the migration from monolithic architectures to micro-services and micro-database setups

What we offer*

• Work/Life balance: Flexible hours, 33 vacation days

• Wellbeing and financial support: Access to Open Up, corporate discounts

• Connection & community: Virtual events, collaborative team activities, and opportunities for local meet-ups

• And the list goes on: Tech equipment, referral bonuses, dog-friendly HQ

*Perks and benefits listed above are for full-time employees and may vary slightly by office location. These are just a sample — you'll learn more during the interview process.

About Us

At SoSafe, we’re on a mission to make the digital world safer by addressing the human factor in cybersecurity. As one of the fastest-growing security awareness scale-ups worldwide, we leverage behavioural science and data-driven learning to empower people against cyber threats. Our Human Risk Management approach helps organisations turn their employees into their strongest line of defence.

Backed by leading VCs like Highland Europe and Global Founders Capital, we’re rapidly expanding across the globe. We’re looking for team players who want to drive meaningful change in cybersecurity, take ownership of their work, and grow with us.

If you thrive in a vibrant, purpose-driven environment that values innovation, diversity, and collaboration, then this is the place for you!