Cambium Assessment · 1 day ago
Senior Database Engineer II
United States
Full-time
Remote
Senior Level
5+ years expCambium Assessment is seeking a Senior Database Engineer to join their dynamic team of over 100 professionals dedicated to building innovative solutions. This role involves designing, developing, and optimizing database systems to support high-transaction applications, ensuring data integrity and performance in cloud environments.
E-LearningEducationTraining
Responsibilities
Develop state of the art database solutions to meet the stringent performance, scalability and integrity needs of high transaction systems
Design database schema based on data modeling of business requirements and entities
Development work will involve writing stored procedures, functions, views, triggers, constraints, etc
Create deployment and rollback scripts for all database objects manually or auto generated
Analyze access patterns and propose the best combination of indexes, constraints, foreign keys, and queries
Troubleshoot performance problems and propose short-term fixes and long-term solutions
Work with Architects and drive developers in the future evolution of the data layer researching options and developing prototypes before eventual introduction into the tech stack
Stay current with evolving databases, AWS, microservices, and cloud‑native technologies; prototype new tools/features for adoption
Qualification
Required
B.S. in Computer Science (or related field) and 5+ years related experience or M.S. Degree and 3+yrs of experience
5+ years of hands-on SQL Server development experience
Expert knowledge of all aspects of SQL Server including the ability to write and deploy effective triggers, stored procedures and user defined functions
Authoritative understanding of SQL Server concurrency features, transactions, and locking; Excellent data modeling and schema design skills, including normalization and de-normalization
Thorough understanding of best practices for database maintenance, including index and file management, backups, failure recovery, database defragmentation, documentation; Ability to analyze disk space requirements and hardware utilization, automate error notification
Basic SQL Server administration skills, such as backups, restores, taking and reverting snapshots, user/role security, access permissions, etc
Experience operating SQL Server in AWS: Amazon RDS for SQL Server, RDS Custom, or SQL Server on EC2
Familiarity with AWS microservices architecture: designing databases to support a microservice‑based application in AWS
Experience optimizing data access from microservices (e.g. minimizing cross‑service latency, designing efficient APIs, minimizing coupling)
Knowledge of containerization (Docker), orchestration (Kubernetes, AWS ECS/EKS) in microservices context
Benefits
Remote First Work Environment
Reimbursement to help cover the cost of setting up your home or remote office
Company
Cambium Assessment
Cambium Assessment is an education and training center.
Founded in 1999Washington, District of Columbia, USA
501-1000 employees
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Chief Administration Officer
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