2 days ago
Boston, MA, USAStaff+
Base Salary
$143k - $186k/yr
Responsibilities
- Design and operate scalable, resilient, and cost-efficient cloud-native database platforms primarily on AWS.
- Build automated self-service capabilities using Terraform, CI/CD pipelines, and Git-based workflows.
- Define reusable platform patterns, standards, and guardrails across a multi-cloud environment.
- Embed observability, performance tuning, incident response, secure-by-design practices, and data protection into platform operations.
- Drive cloud cost transparency and optimization through FinOps practices including tagging, attribution, and rightsizing.
- Partner with architecture, application, data, cloud, and security teams to deliver practical platform solutions.
- Provide technical guidance and mentorship and lead design and architecture reviews.
- Evaluate emerging database technologies and support AI and analytics use cases through modern database capabilities.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field.
- 8 to 10 years of experience in database, platform, or infrastructure engineering.
- Production experience with PostgreSQL and AWS-managed database services such as DynamoDB and OpenSearch.
- Experience with Terraform and infrastructure automation pipelines.
- Strong understanding of database performance at scale, including query performance, indexing, and data distribution.
- Ability to work independently and own problems from design through delivery.
- Preferred experience with Azure or GCP alongside AWS.
- Preferred familiarity with Neptune, DocumentDB, MongoDB, or equivalent graph, document, or NoSQL databases.
- Preferred exposure to vector search or pgvector, Databricks or BigQuery, RAG pipelines, embedding stores, and modern AI data architectures.
- Preferred knowledge of cloud security practices, FinOps, SRE, TOGAF, mentoring, architecture reviews, MSSQL, or Oracle.
Benefits
- Base salary range of $143,000 to $186,330 annually, plus an annual discretionary bonus of up to 20% and retirement contributions; compensation figures are excluded from the benefits summary per schema.
- Zero-dollar health insurance premiums for employees, spouses, and children, with low-cost medical copays.
- Dental coverage with orthodontia benefits and vision insurance.
- Gym and fitness reimbursement.
- Fully vested annual profit-sharing retirement contributions, plus access to a 401(k) plan.
- Paid parental leave, family benefits, and adoption, surrogacy, and elective egg-freezing reimbursement.
- Paid time off including 12 holidays, an annual office closure between Christmas and New Year’s, 15 vacation days per year, and paid sick time.
- Role is available in Boston or Atlanta, with US-location-specific compensation information provided.
Tech Stack
Amazon DynamoDBAWSAzureDatabricksGoogle BigQueryGoogle Cloud PlatformMicrosoft SQL ServerMongoDBPostgreSQLTerraform
About BCG
Boston Consulting Group provides management consulting, technology, and design services to large enterprises, governments, and nonprofits, helping with strategy, digital transformation, and operations. The firm works on a project-based, fee-for-service model and also incubates products and ventures through BCG X. Founded in 1963 and headquartered in Boston, it is a global partnership with offices worldwide.