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Senior SQL Database Engineer

Selby Jennings Manhattan, United States
Posted 8 days ago Hybrid Job Permanent USD250000 - USD350000 per year

Senior SQL Database Engineer

Selby Jennings Manhattan, United States
A leading technology-driven organization is modernizing its database services through a standardized platform built on infrastructure-as-code, automated lifecycle management, and self-healing operations. The team is focused on treating both database infrastructure and schema as code, using declarative, version-controlled deployments to deliver scalable, reliable, and auditable database services.

The organization is seeking a Senior Database Platform Engineer to help design, build, and support a modern database platform. This role emphasizes automation, infrastructure-as-code, and declarative database management practices. The successful candidate will create scalable solutions that reduce manual operational effort while ensuring consistency, security, and reliability across multiple database technologies.



Key Responsibilities

  • Design, implement, and support database platforms, including automated provisioning and lifecycle management.
  • Build and maintain high-availability database solutions and automated deployment frameworks.
  • Drive adoption of declarative, state-based database deployment practices, ensuring all changes are version-controlled, auditable, repeatable, and automated.
  • Manage database schema as code with strict governance around change management and drift prevention.
  • Provision and manage infrastructure using Infrastructure-as-Code tools to ensure repeatable and standardized deployments.
  • Develop CI/CD and GitOps workflows that integrate database deployments into broader engineering processes.
  • Build observability and monitoring solutions utilizing modern monitoring and telemetry frameworks.
  • Create migration and modernization tooling to assist with platform transformations.
  • Develop self-service capabilities and implement robust security controls across database environments.


Required Experience

  • Strong hands-on expertise administering and optimizing enterprise database platforms, including performance tuning, indexing, high availability, replication, and security.
  • Experience supporting modern cloud data platforms, including data modeling, security administration, ingestion, and performance optimization.
  • Proven experience with Infrastructure-as-Code tools for provisioning and lifecycle management.
  • Hands-on experience implementing declarative, state-based database deployment methodologies.
  • Strong understanding of schema-as-code principles, versioned migrations, automated releases, and environment promotion strategies.
  • Proficiency in scripting and automation using languages such as PowerShell and/or Python.
  • Experience integrating database deployments into CI/CD pipelines and modern DevOps workflows.


Preferred Experience

  • Exposure to additional database technologies, including relational, analytical, and distributed data platforms.
  • Experience with caching technologies and modern data infrastructure components.
  • Familiarity with container orchestration and cloud-native platforms.
  • Experience building lakehouse architectures and data federation capabilities.
  • Knowledge of workflow orchestration and data transformation tools.
  • Experience with observability platforms, metrics collection, logging, and distributed tracing.
  • Familiarity with reporting and business intelligence tools.


Ideal Candidate

  • Passionate about automation and treating infrastructure and database changes as code.
  • Strong platform engineering mindset with experience building scalable internal services.
  • Comfortable operating across infrastructure, database, and application layers.
  • Interested in modernizing traditional database administration practices through engineering-led solutions.
  • Adaptable, curious, and eager to learn new technologies in a rapidly evolving environment.

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