Sr. Database Engineer

job summary:
We're hiring a Senior Database Engineer to design, build, and operate AWS-native, production grade databases. You will own DBA/admin responsibilities, performance tuning, and end-to-end observability of highly available databases (SQL & NoSQL) to ensure reliable, secure, and discoverable data at-scale.

Key Responsibilities

- Own installation, configuration, upgrades, backup/restore, HA/DR, capacity planning maintenance, runtime of Aurora/RDS (MySQL/Postgres), Redshift, DynamoDB, and TimescaleDB.

- Implement database connection and memory management, lock contentions, deadlock remediations etc. to ensure database scalability and reliability. Perform data validation, de-duplication, and cleanup tasks to maintain integrity.

- Partner with Product, and other engineering teams to enable cross-functional software delivery of new/enhanced platform functions, real time and batch, scheduled/ad-hoc data analytics, reporting across use cases.

- Perform SQL and NoSQL performance tuning (indexes, query plans, hot partition mitigation, connection/session tuning, auto-vacuum/maintenance) and root cause analysis for latency and throughput issues.

- Implement data quality checks, data drift monitoring, and diffing across environments; alert on SLO/SLA breaches.

- Build and own end to end monitoring and dashboards using CloudWatch/Prometheus (or equivalent) across storage, and serving layers, to track database health, identify slow queries, and escalate performance issues.

- Treat data as code: version controlled pipelines, CI/CD for ETL/ELT, db scripts, stored procedures and automated testing/validation, environment promotion with rollback.

Must Have Qualifications

- 3+ years in data engineering (or equivalent) with deep AWS expertise in building and maintaining production data platforms.

- 3+ years of proven DBA/admin expertise and experience across RDBMS (Aurora/RDS: MySQL/Postgres; Redshift) and NoSQL (DynamoDB, MongoDB): installation, upgrades, backup/restore, HA/DR, security, maintenance and performance tuning.

- 3+ years of expertise in production maintenance of distributed databases, across large-scale data lifecycles -including designing, maintaining partitioning, archiving, purging etc.

- Working knowledge with Automation and Performance observability tools, to automate anomaly detection, proactive scaling alarms and build self-healing runtime operations tasks

location: Atlanta, Georgia
job type: Permanent
salary: $100,000 - 125,000 per year
work hours: 9am to 5pm
education: Bachelors

responsibilities:

• 3+ years in data engineering (or equivalent) with deep AWS expertise in building and maintaining production data platforms.
• 3+ years of proven DBA/admin expertise and experience across RDBMS (Aurora/RDS: MySQL/Postgres; Redshift) and NoSQL (DynamoDB, MongoDB): installation, upgrades, backup/restore, HA/DR, security, maintenance and performance tuning.
• 3+ years of expertise in production maintenance of distributed databases, across large-scale data lifecycles -including designing, maintaining partitioning, archiving, purging etc.
• Working knowledge with Automation and Performance observability tools, to automate anomaly detection, proactive scaling alarms and build self-healing runtime operations tasks.

qualifications:
We're hiring a Senior Database Engineer to design, build, and operate AWS-native, production grade databases. You will own DBA/admin responsibilities, performance tuning, and end-to-end observability of highly available databases (SQL & NoSQL) to ensure reliable, secure, and discoverable data at-scale.

Key Responsibilities

- Own installation, configuration, upgrades, backup/restore, HA/DR, capacity planning maintenance, runtime of Aurora/RDS (MySQL/Postgres), Redshift, DynamoDB, and TimescaleDB.

- Implement database connection and memory management, lock contentions, deadlock remediations etc. to ensure database scalability and reliability. Perform data validation, de-duplication, and cleanup tasks to maintain integrity.

- Partner with Product, and other engineering teams to enable cross-functional software delivery of new/enhanced platform functions, real time and batch, scheduled/ad-hoc data analytics, reporting across use cases.

- Perform SQL and NoSQL performance tuning (indexes, query plans, hot partition mitigation, connection/session tuning, auto-vacuum/maintenance) and root cause analysis for latency and throughput issues.

- Implement data quality checks, data drift monitoring, and diffing across environments; alert on SLO/SLA breaches.

- Build and own end to end monitoring and dashboards using CloudWatch/Prometheus (or equivalent) across storage, and serving layers, to track database health, identify slow queries, and escalate performance issues.

- Treat data as code: version controlled pipelines, CI/CD for ETL/ELT, db scripts, stored procedures and automated testing/validation, environment promotion with rollback.

Must Have Qualifications

- 3+ years in data engineering (or equivalent) with deep AWS expertise in building and maintaining production data platforms.

- 3+ years of proven DBA/admin expertise and experience across RDBMS (Aurora/RDS: MySQL/Postgres; Redshift) and NoSQL (DynamoDB, MongoDB): installation, upgrades, backup/restore, HA/DR, security, maintenance and performance tuning.

- 3+ years of expertise in production maintenance of distributed databases, across large-scale data lifecycles -including designing, maintaining partitioning, archiving, purging etc.

- Working knowledge with Automation and Performance observability tools, to automate anomaly detection, proactive scaling alarms and build self-healing runtime operations tasks

Equal Opportunity Employer: Race, Color, Religion, Sex, Sexual Orientation, Gender Identity, National Origin, Age, Genetic Information, Disability, Protected Veteran Status, or any other legally protected group status.

At Randstad Digital, we welcome people of all abilities and want to ensure that our hiring and interview process meets the needs of all applicants. If you require a reasonable accommodation to make your application or interview experience a great one, please contact [email protected].


Pay offered to a successful candidate will be based on several factors including the candidate's education, work experience, work location, specific job duties, certifications, etc. In addition, Randstad Digital offers a comprehensive benefits package, including: medical, prescription, dental, vision, AD&D, and life insurance offerings, short-term disability, and a 401K plan (all benefits are based on eligibility).

This posting is open for thirty (30) days.