Degreed · 4 hours ago
Senior Database Engineer | US
United States
Full-time
Remote
Senior LevelDegreed is an upskilling platform that fuels growth and innovation through lifelong learning. As a Senior Database Engineer, you will design, scale, and operate the data foundations that power business-critical applications and insights across the platform, ensuring databases are performant and reliable.
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Responsibilities
Design, evolve, and optimize SQL Server databases at scale: Create schemas, queries, stored procedures, and indexing strategies, and continuously refactor them to improve performance, reliability, and long-term maintainability in production systems
Own database changes and production stability: Plan, deploy, and validate schema and data changes with minimal downtime, clear rollback strategies, and hands-on response to performance, availability, and scalability incidents
Ensure database quality through reviews and testing: Lead database code reviews and maintain acceptance tests that validate correctness, performance, and reliability before changes reach production
Build and operate reliable data pipelines: Develop and maintain data flows between systems, ensuring data quality, consistency, and observability across environments
Partner with engineering and product to enable features: Collaborate with backend and frontend engineers, product managers, and designers to translate product needs into scalable data models, APIs, and user-facing capabilities
Apply Elasticsearch where it adds value: Support search, analytics, or observability use cases by combining Elasticsearch with relational data stores when appropriate
Document and align database practices across the platform: Maintain clear documentation of database architecture and standards, and align database strategies with platform, security, and reliability initiatives
Qualification
Required
Deep understanding of relational data modeling concepts: Knowledge of normalization, denormalization, indexing strategies, and schema evolution patterns in SQL Server, applied to systems that grow in scale and complexity over time
Strong grounding in SQL Server performance mechanics: Understanding of query execution plans, indexing behavior, locking, concurrency, and resource usage, with the ability to reason about root causes of performance issues
Experience managing database change risk in production environments: Familiarity with schema versioning, backward-compatible changes, data migrations, and rollback strategies in systems with live traffic and uptime requirements
Working knowledge of cloud-based database architectures on Azure: Understanding of how availability, backups, recovery, scalability, and cost trade-offs work when operating SQL Server in Azure-hosted environments
Knowledge of database code quality and design standards: Familiarity with best practices for secure, maintainable database and data-access code, including review criteria, naming conventions, and design trade-offs
Ability to leverage AI tools and technologies relevant to the role: Experience using AI-assisted tools for query analysis, troubleshooting, optimization suggestions, or technical documentation to support database engineering workflows
Benefits
Comprehensive benefits package designed to support your well-being, growth, and success
Company
Degreed
Degreed is an upskilling platform where individuals and organizations can discover content, build skills, and certify expertise.
Founded in 2012
501-1000 employees
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Funding
Current Stage
Late StageTotal Funding
$462.74MKey Investors
Owl VenturesAllianceBernsteinGSV Ventures
2023-02-17Series Unknown· $50.94M
2021-07-23Series Unknown
2021-04-13Series D· $153M
Leadership Team
David Blake
Founder & CEO
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Vince Penkala
Vice President Global Professional Services
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