Principal Database Engineer

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in India.

📋 Description

• Define, architect, enhance, and govern highly available, resilient, and secure enterprise database platforms across AWS and GCP.

• Lead the reliability, performance, scalability, and lifecycle management of Microsoft SQL Server platforms.

• Propel enterprise-wide migrations and modernization initiatives towards PostgreSQL and cloud-native database services.

• Design and develop automated frameworks for provisioning, patching, backup validation, failover testing, and routine maintenance utilizing IaC and configuration management.

• Collaborate with Platform Engineering on database release automation, CI/CD pipelines, schema versioning, and environment standardization.

• Work alongside application development teams to optimize database design, query performance, schema evolution, and deployment strategies.

• Establish standards for database observability, including telemetry, logging, alerting, and performance analytics.

• Define and enhance database reliability objectives, recovery strategies, and operational readiness practices.

• Conduct root cause analysis and implement permanent corrective actions following major production incidents.

• Create engineering standards, reusable automation modules, and technical documentation.

• Align database technology roadmaps with business objectives.

• Assess emerging database and data-tier technologies for reliability, scalability, security, and cost-effectiveness.

• Act as the primary technical authority for database architecture and cloud migrations.

• Mentor junior and mid-level engineers while influencing the technical strategy across the engineering organization.

• Support strategic cloud initiatives across AWS and Google Cloud.

• Perform additional duties that support the overall goals of the position.

⛳️ Requirements

• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related technical field, or any combination of education and experience that provides the necessary qualifications.

• Over 10 years of experience in designing, supporting, and managing enterprise relational database platforms in production environments.

• Extensive experience working in public cloud environments (AWS, GCP, or Azure).

• Proven experience in implementing Infrastructure as Code (IaC) and DevOps practices.

• Experience in participating in incident response, root cause analysis, SRE initiatives, schema versioning, and release automation.

• Background in mentoring engineers, influencing enterprise technical standards, and leading legacy database migrations to cloud-native or open-source platforms.

• Experience supporting cloud-native applications, Kubernetes, or containerized workloads (preferred).

• Microsoft SQL Server certification or equivalent experience.

• AWS or Google Cloud Professional certification (preferred).

• Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA) or equivalent containerization certification (preferred).

• Terraform Associate or equivalent Infrastructure as Code certification (preferred).

• ITIL Foundation or SRE-related certifications (preferred).

• Expert-level knowledge of Microsoft SQL Server administration, engine internals, HADR strategies, and performance engineering.

• Familiarity with PostgreSQL or other enterprise relational database platforms.

• Understanding of public cloud architectures, Kubernetes, and infrastructure automation.

• Advanced skills in scripting and programming with PowerShell, Python, Bash, or equivalent languages.

• Expertise in database performance engineering, advanced SQL query tuning, and troubleshooting distributed data systems.

• Ability to influence technical strategy and clearly communicate complex technical concepts.

🏝️ Benefits

• Equal opportunity employer.

• Inclusive and diverse work environment.