Sr. Database Reliability Engineer II
NinjaTrader1 month ago
Remote, United States or Chicago, IL, USAMid Level / Senior
H1B sponsor
Base Salary
$130k - $180k/yr
Responsibilities
- Design and evolve MySQL schemas for high-volume transactional workloads.
- Improve database platform architecture through online schema changes, low-downtime migrations, blue/green deployments, and scalability initiatives.
- Analyze and optimize SQL queries, indexes, execution plans, transactions, locking, and concurrency.
- Develop production software, reusable libraries, frameworks, and developer tooling for data access and platform capabilities.
- Design scalable data models and establish standards for schema design, indexing, SQL development, migrations, and data access.
- Lead database performance tuning, modernization, architecture reviews, and technical initiatives across engineering teams.
- Investigate and resolve complex application and database performance, integrity, and production reliability issues.
- Partner with Platform Engineering on monitoring, backups, disaster recovery, observability, and operational resilience.
- Use Google Cloud services to improve data platform reliability, scalability, and observability.
- Mentor engineers and serve as a technical advisor on database architecture, application performance, and data platform practices.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
- 8+ years of professional software engineering experience.
- Strong backend application development experience with Java, C#, Go, Python, Kotlin, Scala, or similar modern languages.
- Expert-level MySQL experience in large-scale production environments.
- Deep knowledge of SQL optimization, query execution plans, indexing, transactions, isolation levels, locking, concurrency, schema design, normalization, replication, and high availability.
- Experience designing scalable schemas for high-volume transactional applications and troubleshooting complex application and database performance issues.
- Experience implementing database migration strategies for continuous delivery.
- Strong understanding of software architecture, distributed systems, and engineering best practices.
- Experience leading technical initiatives and influencing architectural decisions across engineering teams.
- Strong collaboration and communication skills, including the ability to explain complex technical concepts.
- Experience or passion for building automation, developer tooling, database testing frameworks, performance benchmarking harnesses, and engineering practices.
- Preferred experience with Google Cloud Platform, Cloud SQL for MySQL, observability, highly available distributed systems, financial services or trading platforms, high-growth engineering environments, and AI/ML tools for development or operations.
Benefits
- Chicago-based hybrid schedule with in-office work Tuesday through Thursday and remote work Monday and Friday.
- 20 additional flex remote days annually and five company-wide office-optional weeks tied to major holidays.
- Remote flexibility may be available for exceptional candidates in listed states.
- Salary range of $130,000.00-$180,000.00 USD plus a 10% annual target bonus.
- 401(k) plan with up to a 3.5% company match.
- 18 days of annual PTO accrual, seven paid holidays, five conditional holidays, and one service day.
- Paid parental bonding leave and health, vision, dental, life, and disability coverage, with life and disability insurance covered 100% by NinjaTrader.
Tech Stack
Categories
BackendData Engineering
About NinjaTrader
NinjaTrader builds a multi-device trading platform and runs a futures brokerage and clearing firm for active retail and professional traders. Its software offers advanced charting, strategy development, backtesting, and trade execution, and the brokerage earns commissions and fees. Founded in 2004 and headquartered in Chicago, it is part of Payward (Kraken).