Senior Database Administrator

🇺🇸 Seattle, Washington
$1K - $2K Annual
Posted 3 weeks ago
Expires June 9, 2026
Full TimeRemoteEngineeringOperations

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Job Summary

The Senior Database Engineer will work directly with the database, software architecture, development, and product teams to design and implement product, process solutions, and improve application performance and stability.

This role reports to our Manager, Database Engineering.

What You'll Do

- Collaborate with stakeholders from across the organization to set priorities and drive toward implementation.

- Ensure database systems meet all requirements of performance, availability, scalability, quality, and security to produce world class products.

- Delivering high-quality work-products; champion quality standards, performance, and scalability.

- Research innovative technologies and stay ahead of the industry.

- Design and implement resilient and performant database processes and solutions.

- Develop custom stored procedures, views, or user-defined functions.

- Collaborate with cross-functional teams.

- Debug and tune/optimize SQL code either directly or indirectly from the application.

- Support Tier2 development team with database requests as needed (including bug fixes, production data manipulation and feature testing).

- Debug and tune/optimize SQL code either directly or indirectly from the application.

- On-call duty may be requ...

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