Intuit · 17 hours ago
Staff Database Engineer
Mountain View, CA
Full-time
Onsite
Lead/Staff
$197K/yr - $266K/yr
10+ years expIntuit is seeking a passionate Staff Database Engineer to join their FinTech Reliability Engineering and Infrastructure team. The role involves managing and optimizing large-scale database systems, ensuring high availability and disaster recovery, and leading performance tuning and complex migrations to AWS Cloud.
AccountingFinancial ServicesFinTechPaaSSoftware
Responsibilities
Ability to understand monolith-based software systems with complex business logic served to ~500K customers
Multi-Platform Administration: Manage, maintain, and optimize large-scale production and non-production database systems across MSSQL, PostgreSQL (Aurora/RDS), and MySQL (Aurora/RDS)
Independently troubleshoot incoming production and pre-production issues and timely resolve
High Availability & DR: Serve as the resident expert for SQL Server Always On/Clustering, Aurora Global Databases, and Patroni clusters to ensure 24/7 uptime and disaster recovery readiness
Contribute to infrastructure changes to AWS with deep understanding of AWS services
Performance Engineering: Lead performance tuning efforts, including T-SQL/PL/pgSQL query optimization, execution plan reviews, and memory/IO configuration
Scalability & Architecture: Implement advanced scaling techniques such as database sharding, table partitioning etc
Cloud Leadership: Design and contribute to AWS infrastructure changes, leveraging deep knowledge of RDS, EC2, VPC, Security Groups, and Route 53
Deployment Automation: Drive "Infrastructure as Code" (IaC) initiatives using CloudFormation, Jenkins, and CI/CD pipelines to automate system commissioning and deployments
Migration Excellence: Lead complex database migrations from legacy on-premises systems to AWS Cloud using AWS Data Migration Service (DMS)
Engage with multiple functional teams to coordinate DB changes with adhering best practices
Engage in on-call for production systems and take action for incoming pagers/alerts
Project Ownership: Lead projects from design to execution, ensuring stakeholder alignment and taking 100% ownership of production rollouts
Contribute to major system upgrades, deployment automation, monitoring enhancements and Production changes
Ability to create operational Runbooks, contribute to how-to articles, and gain domain knowledge to drive changes in the team
Strong ability to handle high-pressure incident management scenarios
Exceptional communication skills for documenting technical strategies and reporting to cross-functional stakeholders
Flexibility to support planned weekend activities and out-of-hours maintenance window
Qualification
Required
Bachelor or Master's degree in computer science or a related technical field
Tenure: 10+ years of hands-on experience as a Database Administrator (DBA) in high-availability, multi-terabyte production environments
Education: Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, IT (MCA, BE, or MSc IT), or a related technical field
Expert-level proficiency in MS SQL Server, PostgreSQL (EDB, Aurora), and MySQL
Advanced hands-on experience with AWS Cloud services (RDS, Aurora, EC2, CloudFormation, DMS)
Proficiency in scripting for automation using PowerShell or Python
Experience with monitoring and performance tools such as Wavefront, Splunk, pgAnalyze, and AWS-native monitoring
Strong ability to handle high-pressure incident management scenarios
Exceptional communication skills for documenting technical strategies and reporting to cross-functional stakeholders
Flexibility to support planned weekend activities and out-of-hours maintenance window
Preferred
Recognized RDBMS certifications such as OCP (Oracle), MCDBA (SQL Server), or Microsoft Certified: Azure Database Administrator Associate
AWS certification will be more preferred
Knowledge of Docker and Kubernetes
Additional experience with Oracle and Oracle GoldenGate is a significant advantage
Familiarity with Java, C++, or AI experience
Benefits
Cash bonus
Equity rewards
Benefits
Company
Intuit
Intuit provides financial software solutions to empower individuals and businesses.
10001+ employees
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