Senior Database Engineer

nemetschek

7d•Remote

About The Position

The Senior Cloud Database Engineer is responsible for ensuring the scalability, performance and reliability of cloud-based database solutions. This role focuses on leveraging automation and modern practices to optimize database operations and support the development of new services and features. Collaboration with cross-functional teams will also be required to align database architecture with evolving business and technical requirements that will affect the next generation of Bluebeam’s cloud native solutions.

Requirements

10+ years supporting general database solutions
8-10 years of experience with a variety of cloud-native database solutions, such as Aurora, DynamoDB, DocumentDB, PostgreSQL, and Elasticache
Experience with a variety of cloud-native database/storage solutions, such as AWS Aurora, DynamoDB, DocumentDB, PostgreSQL, Elasticache, and S3
Experience with Data Lake/Data Warehouse best practices, implementation, and compliance requirements
Demonstrated ability to manage and optimize Snowflake database instances and workflows with an understanding of real world challenges and solutions
Automation experience using scripting tools like Python and Bash, in addition to standardized template approaches like Terraform and CloudFormation
Experience with planning, implementing, and supporting highly scalable cloud database solutions
Knowledge of database security and compliance best practices
Comfortable with a DevOps mindset, i.e. database solutions should be implemented with a focus on source control, automation, and disaster recovery

Responsibilities

Develop database-centric automation, utilizing infrastructure as Code (IAC), CI/CD processes, and robust scripting that will be consumed by the entire engineering organization
Review database and infrastructure components for automation opportunities, and work with teams to plan and schedule improvements
Collaborate with Engineering and DevOps teams as an SME, promoting cloud database best practices
Support, mentor and collaborate with Engineering and DevOps team members
Contribute to larger scope architectural discussions to identity preferred solutions for our unified cloud platform. This will involve timely decision-making, project estimation and extensive analysis
Support legacy technologies and be a driving force to migrate them to new cloud-native solutions
Improve existing incident response processes and introduce new alerting and monitoring to remediate production issues efficiently
Participate in an on-call SME rotation to support production databases and essential infrastructure

Benefits

People-focused, entrepreneurial culture with the backing of a stable, global, corporate entity – Nemetschek
Competitive compensation and benefits package
100% paid medical premiums for employees, 80% paid for dependents
Fully vested 401K right from the day you start
Generous PTO, including sick/mental health & volunteer days
Free & unlimited access to BetterUp Care, a well-being platform
Work-life balance fostered through a culture of diversity, inclusion, and appreciation of individual lifestyle needs
Opportunity for continuous professional development
Free & unlimited access to LinkedIn Learning
Up to $5K annual education reimbursement (after 1 year tenure)