Team Lead Database Engineering

Sosafe Awareness; Remote; GBP 60,000 - GBP 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A cybersecurity awareness company is seeking an experienced Database Platform leader to drive strategy and team growth. This role involves overseeing the Database Platform's development in a cloud-native environment, ensuring reliability and operational excellence. The ideal candidate has a strong leadership background, with experience in database management and platforms like PostgreSQL. Join a leading team dedicated to enhancing cybersecurity through human risk management.

Benefits

Wellbeing and financial support

Corporate discounts

Tech equipment

Dog-friendly HQ

Qualifications

• Experience leading and growing engineering teams.
• Strong people leadership and coaching skills for engineers.
• Familiarity with cloud services like AWS RDS or Aurora.

Responsibilities

• Lead SoSafe’s Database Platform to enable business-critical features.
• Define the future strategy for standardization and automation.
• Build partnerships with Product and Platform teams.

Skills

Team leadership

Database management

Cloud-native environments

PostgreSQL

Infrastructure as Code

Tools

GitHub

Terraform

Job description

Location
Lisbon, Portugal Remote, United Kingdom Remote, London, Dublin, Ireland Remote

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 lead 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 leading teams through ambiguity, turning strategy into execution 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

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

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!

The human risk platform that deploys in days, not months

Implement enterprise‑grade security awareness in just 2 days with only 20 minutes of management time required.

See how our gamified, micro‑learning approach gets 70% active reporting in 6 months.

See how organisations like yours reduced phishing click rates from 20% to 3.5% in just 18 months.

Compliance & security

Experience our products first‑hand

Use our online test environment to see how our platform can help you empower your team to continuously avert cyber threats and keep your organization secure.