Senior Database Engineer
Bluestaq US External5 days ago
Colorado Springs, CO, USASenior
Base Salary
$115k - $140k/yr
Responsibilities
- Own tables, schemas, and data flows end-to-end, including data quality, performance, and operability.
- Design relational schemas and data models using normalization and denormalization tradeoffs, DDL, and extensive SQL.
- Work with SQL and NoSQL datastores including MongoDB, Postgres/RDS, and Amazon Athena.
- Lead medium-sized data features involving new domains, ingest, or significant schema changes.
- Build ETL and ingest pipelines with incremental processing, error handling, and validation.
- Investigate query plans, indexes, partitioning, table bloat, and other database performance issues.
- Apply row-level security, roles, permissions, and auditing patterns to protect sensitive data.
- Plan and execute database upgrades, patches, migrations, backup, recovery, and disaster-recovery activities.
- Mentor Associate and mid-level engineers through escalation support and code review.
- Partner with Software Engineering, Data Modeling, Systems, and Cyber teams on data design and access patterns.
- Maintain schema diagrams, data-flow diagrams, runbooks, and operational documentation.
Requirements
- High School Diploma/GED and 8+ years of relevant experience, or an Associate degree and 6+ years, or a Bachelor's degree and 4+ years, or a Master's degree and 2+ years.
- Production experience designing, tuning, and operating relational databases such as Postgres, MySQL, Oracle, or SQL Server.
- Hands-on experience with MongoDB, Amazon Athena, or equivalent NoSQL or large-scale data stores.
- Experience designing normalized and denormalized schemas and data models.
- Experience diagnosing database bottlenecks and applying indexing, partitioning, query rewrites, and configuration tuning.
- Experience building ETL or ingest pipelines with incremental processing, error handling, and validation.
- Production experience applying row-level security, roles, permissions, and auditing patterns.
- Knowledge of backup, recovery, and disaster recovery, including having exercised the plan.
- Experience with Linux environments and PowerShell, Bash, Python, and SQL scripting or automation.
- Strong SQL skills, including Common Table Expressions and dynamic SQL.
- Ability to independently scope, design, deliver, and roll out work while surfacing risks.
- Strong mentorship, communication, technical writing, documentation, and cross-functional collaboration skills.
- Relevant DBA certifications, cloud platforms, Docker, Kubernetes, Liquibase, Flyway, Splunk, or equivalent monitoring experience are preferred.
Benefits
- 100% employer-paid health, dental, and vision coverage for employees and dependents.
- Up to 6% 401(k) matching, an additional discretionary 4% profit share on day one, Roth options, and no vesting period.
- Annual performance bonus eligibility.
- $200,000 employer-paid life insurance and short- and long-term disability coverage.
- $5,000 annual professional development budget.
- 20 days of paid time off plus 8 paid holidays.
- Pet insurance, onsite gym, and a flexible schedule.
- Relocation assistance is available for full-time positions.
- The position may require an active TS/SCI clearance; eligible candidates may be sponsored through the clearance process based on program needs.
Tech Stack
AWSAzureBashDockerFlywayGoogle CloudKubernetesLinuxMicrosoft SQL ServerMongoDBMySQLPostgreSQLPowerShellPythonSplunkSQL
Categories
BackendData Engineering
About Bluestaq US External
Bluestaq builds data integration and management platforms that break down silos and deliver time-critical information across defense, government, and commercial environments. Its software and secure infrastructure support space domain awareness and satellite command-and-control workflows, including work with U.S. Space Force programs. Founded in 2018 and headquartered in Colorado Springs, it operates globally with teams in London, Brisbane, and Canberra, and is privately held.