Cambium Learning Group

The education essentials company.

Senior Database Engineer

Backend EngineerSoftware EngineerFull TimeRemoteTeam 501-1,000Since 2009H1B SponsorCompany SiteLinkedIn

Location

United States

Posted

134 days ago

Salary

Not specified

Bachelor Degree5 yrs expEnglishAWSCloudDockerEC2KubernetesMicroservicesSQL

Job Description

• 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

Job Requirements

  • 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
  • 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

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