2 days ago
Responsibilities
- Develop and maintain internal database tooling, services, scripts, and utilities for provisioning, access management, schema changes, and operational validation.
- Modernize legacy scripts and workflows into scalable service-based or API-driven solutions.
- Support application teams with schema design, SQL reviews, and database development standards.
- Implement guardrails, validations, checks, and automation that improve database performance, reliability, security, and operational consistency.
- Participate in incident analysis and contribute code fixes or tooling enhancements to prevent recurrence.
- Improve database platform observability through logging, monitoring integration, and tooling enhancements.
- Collaborate with DBA, platform, infrastructure, and application engineering teams across time zones.
- Participate in code reviews, design discussions, and knowledge-sharing forums.
Requirements
- Experience with one or more programming languages such as Python, Perl, or Java.
- Basic understanding of relational database concepts including tables, indexes, transactions, and SQL.
- Familiarity with software development fundamentals including version control, code reviews, and testing.
- Strong problem-solving skills and willingness to learn enterprise database platforms and tooling.
- Ability to work effectively in a team-based, large-scale technology environment.
- Preferred: exposure to SQL Server, Snowflake, or similar enterprise databases.
- Preferred: experience maintaining internal tools, scripts, or shared libraries.
- Preferred: familiarity with APIs or automation frameworks and interest in platform engineering and reducing operational toil through code.
Benefits
- Annual discretionary bonus eligibility.
- Healthcare, leave benefits, retirement benefits, tuition reimbursement, support for working parents, and Flexible Time Off.
- Hybrid work model requiring at least four days in the office per week, with flexibility to work from home one day per week.
About BlackRock
BlackRock is a public, New York–based global asset manager and technology provider founded in 1988. It offers investment products—including the iShares ETF franchise—and portfolio and risk management software via the Aladdin platform to institutions, financial advisors, and individual investors, earning primarily management and technology fees. Its shares trade on the NYSE, and the firm serves clients in major markets worldwide.