Database Engineering Associate
InformaticaBase Salary
$111k - $122k/yr
Responsibilities
- Improve database performance, scalability, resilience, and reliability across a large-scale platform.
- Implement functional and system tests for database quality and assigned areas of responsibility.
- Debug defects, conduct root-cause analysis, and diagnose production issues.
- Develop database automation and feature enhancements for on-premises and public cloud platforms.
- Own the availability and reliability of production databases.
- Define monitoring requirements, thresholds, and corrective actions, and improve reliability through predictive analysis.
- Collaborate with engineering teams and stakeholders on issue triage and resiliency initiatives.
- Participate in production incident and escalation management calls and drive incidents to resolution.
- Provide technical and platform support to customers and stakeholders using production systems.
Requirements
- Strong background in Computer Science or a related technical field.
- Located in North America and eligible to work on the role’s U.S. government customer projects.
- Knowledge of Python, Amazon Web Services, and relational database management systems.
- 0-2 years of experience deploying distributed applications with Docker and Kubernetes, EKS, or GKE.
- 0-2 years of hands-on AWS experience building and operating production-grade infrastructure.
- 0-2 years of database engineering experience with relational databases, NoSQL databases, or both.
- 0-2 years of Linux system engineering experience.
- 0-2 years of scripting or programming experience with Shell, Python, and/or Golang.
- Willingness to participate in a 24/7 on-call rotation.
- U.S. citizenship without dual citizenship, operation on U.S. soil, and ability to meet applicable customer and government screening standards.
- Completion of a Criminal Justice Information Services screening, fingerprint scan, Minimum Background Investigation, and other required clearances.
- Preferred experience with AI coding assistants or generative AI, Splunk, Elasticsearch, Logstash, Kibana, PostgreSQL, Grafana, Prometheus, Kubernetes, and cybersecurity fundamentals.
Benefits
- Salesforce offers time off programs, medical, dental, vision, mental health support, paid parental leave, life and disability insurance, 401(k), and an employee stock purchasing program.
- The role includes participation in a 24/7 on-call rotation.
- The position supports U.S. federal, state, and/or local government customers and requires U.S. citizenship, no dual citizenship, operation on U.S. soil, and government screening and clearance processes.
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About Informatica
Informatica (NYSE: INFA), a leader in AI-powered enterprise cloud data management, helps businesses unlock the full value of their data and AI. As data grows in complexity and volume, Informatica’s Intelligent Data Management Cloud™ delivers a complete, end-to-end platform with a suite of industry-leading, integrated solutions to connect, manage and unify data across any cloud, hybrid or multi-cloud environment. Powered by CLAIRE® AI, Informatica’s platform integrates natively with all major cloud providers, data warehouses and analytics tools— giving organizations the freedom of choice, avoiding vendor lock-in and delivering better ROI by enabling access to governed data, simplifying operations and scaling with confidence. Trusted by approximately 5,000 customers in nearly 100 countries—including over 80 of the Fortune 100—Informatica is the backbone of platform-agnostic, cloud data-driven transformation. Informatica. Where data and AI come to life.™ Contact: PR@informatica.com