Database Engineer (MongoDB, Postgres)

2 hours ago

Houston, TX, USASenior

Responsibilities

Design, maintain, administer, and optimize MongoDB and relational database platforms supporting global production and HPC workloads.
Install, configure, and administer MongoDB sharded clusters and replica sets.
Support PostgreSQL environments through administration, backup, and recovery activities.
Monitor database health, performance, and availability using Prometheus, Grafana, and MongoDB Ops Manager.
Analyze and optimize database queries, configurations, scalability, and high-traffic workloads.
Implement backup, restore, PITR, and high-availability solutions and troubleshoot production database issues.
Develop backend services, database utilities, and automation tools using a programming language such as Golang.
Collaborate with development, infrastructure, and operations teams on database design, application performance, testing, validation, quality assurance, and continuous improvement.

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or a related discipline, or equivalent practical experience.
Proven experience administering MongoDB in production, including sharded clusters and replica sets.
Experience supporting PostgreSQL or other enterprise relational databases.
Experience with MongoDB Ops Manager, Prometheus, and Grafana.
Strong knowledge of database backup, recovery, PITR, and high-availability strategies.
Experience troubleshooting and optimizing database performance.
Strong analytical and problem-solving skills and the ability to work in production-critical environments.
Preferred experience includes globally distributed or high-availability database platforms, database automation with Bash, Python, or Golang, Linux, Docker, Kubernetes, GitLab, data modeling, schema design, ANSI SQL, microservices or distributed applications, and database quality assurance and testing.

Tailored technical, commercial, and personal development training through Viridien’s Learning Hub.
Community volunteering and company initiatives supporting environmental sustainability, energy savings, and waste reduction.
Commitment to an inclusive, transparent, and accessible hiring process with reasonable adjustments available.

1,001-5,000 employees