We are the #1 doctor-recommended – and most clinically studied – behavioral weight health program in the world. For sixty years, WeightWatchers has helped millions build healthy habits and live happier, healthier lives.
As the science of weight health rapidly evolves, so does WeightWatchers. Today we are developing new clinical pathways for medication access, creating behavioral programs for chronic health conditions, integrating third-party services, and enhancing product personalization.
WeightWatchers has embraced technology, with our mobile app now the primary tool for most members. While we continue to perfect our digital product, we are also designing new in-person experiences. With these diverse member touchpoints, our potential for impact has never been greater.
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).
Base salary may vary depending on, but not limited to: skills, experience, and location. This role is also eligible for a comprehensive benefits package and annual bonus program.
At WeightWatchers, our mission is to build a worldwide community connected by healthy habits. If that resonates with you, then we would love to talk. WeightWatchers values developing community within our employee population as well. We encourage our employees to come into the office 1-2 days/week.
It is our priority to cultivate a diverse and inclusive workplace. We are committed as individuals, as an organization, and as fellow humans, to advocate for and support our employees, our members, and our communities. We are proud to be an equal opportunity employer and we do not discriminate on the basis of sex, race, color, creed, national origin, marital status, age, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, veteran status, or disability.
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WeightWatchers Chicago, Illinois, USA Office
WW has always placed people and wellness at the center of our company. Work from Wherever (#WfW), WW’s global work philosophy, empowers our employees to shape when, where, and how they work to achieve the best possible results --- because we believe work is what you do, not where you do it.
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