Full-Time Sr. Database Engineer

The NBCU Ad Sales Engineering team is building world-class technical solutions to optimize and scale commercial sales and delivery for advertisers and agencies. We seek a qualified Sr. Database Engineer to design stable and reliable databases.

Responsibilities:

• Ensure database structures adhere to data integrity, performance, security, and maintainability.
• Optimize and maintain legacy database systems.
• Install, configure, maintain, manage database objects, and perform tuning and indexing.
• Monitor database performance, tune, and optimize queries.
• Develop and implement robust backup and disaster recovery strategies.
• Implement security measures and manage user access.
• Diagnose and troubleshoot database errors, resolve issues, and contribute to continuous improvements.
• Collaborate with developers and database users to understand needs, improve applications, and establish best practices.
• Create and maintain technical documentation, standards, and policies.
• Stay informed about emerging database technologies and recommend implementations.
• Modify databases based on requests and perform tests.
• Ensure database programs meet company and performance requirements.
• Solve database usage issues and malfunctions.
• Gather user requirements and identify new features.
• Contribute to feature development using PL/SQL/PostgreSQL.
• Assist with production support issues during business and off-business hours.
• Perform database upgrades/deployments off-business hours or over weekends (if required).

Requirements:

• BS in Computer Science or equivalent experience
• 5+ years experience as a Database Developer/Administrator
• Experience with AWS Aurora PostgreSQL
• Experience developing database applications in an AWS environment
• Experience with scaling, partitioning, and debugging database performance
• Experience with AWS components (RDS, S3, Secret Manager, IAM, CloudWatch, etc.)
• In-depth understanding of data management (permissions, recovery, security, monitoring)
• Hands-on experience with SQL and PL/pgSQL
• Experience developing stored procedures/functions/triggers using PL/pgSQL
• SQL tuning with hands-on query execution plan analysis
• Cluster/Instance tuning in an AWS Aurora Environment
• Experience with schema evolution tools like Flyway
• Experience with Git
• Excellent analytical, organizational, problem-solving, verbal, and written communication skills.

Desired Requirements:

• Python familiarity
• Familiarity with Scala/Spark
• Experience with orchestration tools (e.g., Airflow)
• Experience with AWS components (ECS, ECR, EMR, Glue).

Additional Requirements:

• Fully Remote
• Willingness to work overtime and on weekends during key business cycles

Salary range: $115,000 - $145,000.

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