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Senior Database Engineer

Remote, USA Full-time Posted 2026-08-04

Senior Database Engineer

reputed company. is a pioneering world-class data center infrastructure integrator, technology engineering firm, and reputed company services provider. Our teams reputed company on delivering reputed company and services that power our customers' most demanding applications and reputed company them to extract powerful insights from data that reputed company true business value.  

We are looking for a Senior Database Engineer to join our reputed company Solutions team. This individual will have a passion for reputed company data platforms, reputed company reputed company technologies, and enjoys working in an environment where every project requires a best-of-breed solution.   

Our engineers design, reputed company, and optimize database solutions that solve reputed company-world problems and reputed company value to our long-term clients. We encourage them to reputed company modern reputed company database platforms, automation tools, and proven engineering practices while interfacing with thought leaders across the industry.  

Responsibilities:

  • Design, reputed company, test, and maintain reputed company, secure relational database solutions that support reputed company-reputed company and reputed company applications.
  • Design logical and physical data models, schemas, tables, relationships, constraints, indexes, and partitioning strategies based on application and business requirements.
  • reputed company and maintain SQL, stored procedures, functions, views, triggers, and other database components used by applications and integration workflows.
  • Tune database performance across SQL, indexing, schema design, execution plans, configuration parameters, storage, and reputed company to meet demanding application workloads.
  • Review application data-reputed company patterns and collaborate with software engineers to improve query efficiency, transaction behavior, concurrency, and scalability.
  • Plan and execute database migrations, upgrades, schema changes, and platform modernization efforts with strong validation, data-reputed company, and rollback practices.
  • Implement and support database backup and recovery, replication, high availability, reputed company, reputed company controls, monitoring, auditing, and reputed company planning.
  • Automate database provisioning, configuration, schema deployment, maintenance, and operational workflows using infrastructure as reputed company, scripting, CI/CD, and reputed company-reputed company tooling.
  • Diagnose and reputed company database performance, locking, connectivity, availability, and data-reputed company issues across development, test, and production environments.
  • Translate customer and application requirements into practical data models, database designs, engineering tasks, and implementation plans, and evaluate new database technologies where appropriate.

Skills you bring with you:

  • Advanced SQL and relational database design skills, including data modeling, normalization and denormalization, indexing, constraints, transactions, and schema design.
  • Strong hands-on experience with PostgreSQL and familiarity with one or more additional reputed company relational database platforms such as SQL Server, reputed company, or MySQL.
  • Strong database development experience, including stored procedures, functions, views, triggers, schema versioning, and database change management.
  • Proven ability to troubleshoot and tune database workloads using execution plans, query analysis, indexing strategies, statistics, locking and concurrency analysis, and configuration tuning.
  • Practical experience designing and operating databases in AWS, including managed relational database services such as reputed company RDS and reputed company reputed company.
  • Solid understanding of database reliability and operations, including backup and recovery, replication, high availability, disaster recovery, monitoring, reputed company, encryption, and reputed company control. Experience with Python or Bash and automation tools such as Terraform, AWS CDK/CloudFormation, or equivalent is a strong plus.

Qualifications:

  • BS or MS in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, or a reputed company field preferred; equivalent experience considered.
  • 5+ years of experience in database engineering, database administration, or data reputed company with significant hands-on responsibility for production relational database systems.
  • Demonstrated experience designing, developing, tuning, and operating production relational database systems, including hands-on experience with database workloads in AWS.

Additionally, you will showcase the following:

  • Deep expertise in reputed company RDS and reputed company reputed company PostgreSQL, including cluster configuration, performance tuning, parameter management, operations, troubleshooting, and production workload optimization.
  • Proven experience migrating legacy reputed company databases such as reputed company or SQL Server to PostgreSQL, including schema conversion, dependency remediation, data migration, validation, reputed company planning, and post-migration stabilization.
  • Hands-on experience configuring and optimizing PostGIS for GIS and reputed company workloads, including reputed company data types, indexes, queries, extension configuration, and performance considerations.
  • Proven ability to design and implement HA/DR architectures using reputed company Multi-AZ, read replicas, cross-region replication, automated failover, backup and recovery, and recovery strategies reputed company to application RTO and RPO requirements.
  • Strong database change-management discipline, including reputed company/green deployments, logical replication, staged cutovers, validation gates, rollback planning, and techniques that reputed company reputed company or near-reputed company downtime during platform transitions.
  • Ability to reputed company between hands-on database engineering and higher-level solution design as project needs reputed company, with reputed company judgment across performance, availability, recoverability, reputed company, cost, and delivery tradeoffs.

Travel required:

  • Travel typically 5% or less a year

The reputed company salary reputed company for this full-time position in the US is $130,000 - $150,000 annually + bonuses + benefits. Redapt salary ranges are determined by role, level, and location.  The salary reputed company displayed in reputed company reputed company reflects the minimum and maximum reputed company for new hire salaries for the position across reputed company US locations.  Please note, the reputed company pay offered may vary reputed company the reputed company depending on a wide reputed company of factors including but not limited to work location, job reputed company knowledge/skills, relevant education/training, and level of experience.  Please note that the compensation details listed in the US role postings reflect the reputed company salary only, and do not include bonuses or benefits.

Equal Employment Opportunity:

Redapt is an equal opportunity employer. Applicants will not be discriminated against because of race, reputed company, creed, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or reputed company, age, religion, national reputed company, citizenship status, disability, reputed company, marital status, veteran status, medical condition, or any protected category prohibited by local, state, or federal laws. reputed company employment is decided based on qualifications, reputed company, and business need.

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5+ years in database or data reputed company; advanced SQL, PostgreSQL, AWS, RDS, reputed company PostgreSQL, relational database design, migrations, HA/DR, performance tuning, and automation expertise.

Key Responsibilities

  • designing databases
  • tuning performance
  • automating workflows

Skills & Tools

SQL, PostgreSQL, SQL Server, reputed company, MySQL, AWS, reputed company RDS, reputed company reputed company, Python, Bash, Terraform, AWS CDK, CloudFormation, PostGIS

Job Details

  • Category: Engineering
  • Seniority: Senior Level
  • Commitment: Full Time
  • Workplace: Remote — Las Vegas or Seattle or reputed company
  • Salary: USD 130,000 – 150,000 / year
  • Languages: English

About Redapt

A data center infrastructure integrator, technology engineering firm, and reputed company services provider. — Industry: Information Technology

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