Database Engineer

Compensation: $40k – $60k

Database Engineer — MiPrep AI

Build the technology behind someone’s next opportunity.

The product you’ll help build

brings the best AI interview copilot with personalized interview preparation and mock interviews into one platform. Built around a candidate’s resume and target job description and trained on over 30,000+ fortune 500 interviews to help people prepare the best answers while reflecting their own experience.

Job Overview

Behind every resume is experience worth communicating well. We’re building to help candidates bring that experience into their interviews with greater clarity and confidence.

MiPrep creates personalized questions and answer preparation from a candidate’s background and the role they’re pursuing. Candidates can rehearse aloud, review feedback and access interview support through its AI copilot.

We’re looking for a curious, motivated Database Engineer to contribute to the product’s development. You’ll work across user interfaces, backend services and integrations, helping turn technical ideas into useful experiences.

This paid internship offers hands-on experience with web development and AI product engineering, alongside opportunities to learn through collaboration, code reviews and practical problem-solving.

What You’ll Work On

• Design database systems: Assist in designing, developing and maintaining scalable, reliable databases using technologies like PostgreSQL, MySQL and MongoDB.
• Optimize database performance: Write and optimize SQL queries, improve indexing strategies and troubleshoot database performance issues to ensure efficient data retrieval.
• Manage data infrastructure: Support database migrations, data modeling, backup and recovery processes while maintaining data integrity and availability.
• Ensure data security: Implement database security best practices, access controls and data protection measures to safeguard sensitive information.
• Collaborate on improvements: Work with backend developers, data engineers and product teams to improve database architecture, support application integrations and build efficient data management solutions.

Why This Opportunity

You’ll gain hands-on experience in database engineering, SQL, database design, query optimization and data management while working on real-world products. Your contributions will focus on building, maintaining and optimizing secure, reliable and scalable database systems, while strengthening your understanding of data modeling, database architecture, performance tuning and modern data infrastructure practices.

Before You Apply

Get to know what we’re building at . Explore how MiPrep approaches interview preparation and consider what would make the experience more useful for someone preparing for their next role.

To apply, share your resume and any relevant GitHub projects or portfolio work through this listing.