OnBoard · 1 month ago
Database Engineer
United States
Full-time
Remote
Mid Level
3+ years expOnBoard is a leading board management software company that helps organizations achieve higher operational efficiency. The Cloud Database Engineer will work at the intersection of traditional database engineering and modern AI search, focusing on building intelligent and observable data systems for LLM-powered applications.
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Responsibilities
Design, deploy, and operate Microsoft SQL Server workloads across Azure IaaS (VM) and PaaS (Azure SQL DB / SQL Managed Instance)
Build, scale, and tune AI Search and ElasticSearch clusters, pipelines, and relevance models for both keyword and semantic search
Collaborate with developers and ML teams to build retrieval pipelines for LLM applications, including vector indexing, prompt metadata enrichment, and embeddings
Integrate observability into all layers of the data/search stack
Analyze and optimize SQL queries and indexing strategies using Query Store, DMVs, and execution plans
Secure data access using encryption (TDE, Always Encrypted), private endpoints, and RBAC
Automate recurring operations using PowerShell/Azure DevOps Pipelines, including job scheduling, alerting, index maintenance and schema validation
Implement Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) for SQL and search platforms using Bicep
Drive incident resolution and root cause analysis for issues across SQL, search, and LLM pipelines
Maintain technical documentation and operational runbooks for the combined SQL + Search + AI infrastructure
Qualification
Required
3–5 years of experience managing Microsoft SQL Server in production, both IaaS and PaaS
Strong experience with full-text and semantic search using Azure Cognitive Search and/or ElasticSearch
Experience building or maintaining RAG/LLM architectures, including vector stores, embedding generation, and retrieval APIs
Proficiency in tuning and debugging database performance (wait stats, execution plans, indexing)
Hands-on experience with observability platforms and standards (OpenTelemetry, Grafana, APM tools, etc.)
Automation scripting with PowerShell or Python
Proficiency with Infrastructure-as-Code (Bicep, Terraform, ARM templates)
Familiarity with compliance, RBAC, and secure data practices in cloud environments
Preferred
experience instrumenting and debugging LLM inference chains or vector database retrieval quality
Benefits
Company provided equipment (laptop, software, etc.)
Employment with a growing, casual, fun, philanthropic minded company
Employer paid extended health benefits, including health spending account (CAN based employees)
Comprehensive, high-quality medical/prescription drug plan options, as well as dental and vision plan offerings.
An employer contribution to your Health Savings Account (HSA) if you participate in a High Deductible Healthcare Plan.
Medical Flexible Spending Accounts available.
Dependent Care Flexible Spending Accounts available.
Basic life insurance in the amount of $50,000 or 1 X’s your salary (whichever is higher).
Short and long-term disability and Accidental Death and Dismemberment benefits at no cost to you.
401K Retirement Savings Plan with automatic enrollment at the first of the month following 60 days of employment at 5% to help you secure your financial freedom. We offer a generous company match that starts on the first of the month following 60 days of employment. The company match is dollar for dollar on the first 3% of your pay that you contribute and $0.50 on the dollar on the next 2%, for a total match of 4%.
Paid Time Off (PTO)/Holiday
Company
OnBoard
OnBoard is a secure board management platform that helps organizations prepare, conduct, and analyze board meetings.
201-500 employees
H1B Sponsorship
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2024 (1)
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Funding
Current Stage
Growth StageTotal Funding
$105MKey Investors
JMI EquityFive Elms CapitalSaratoga Partners
2021-07-07Private Equity· $100M
2018-09-17Private Equity· $5M
2018-07-05Private Equity
Leadership Team
Marc Huffman
Chief Executive Officer
Paroon Chadha
Co-founder and CEO
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