Database Platform Engineer
Senior Database Platform Engineer
New York City | 4 Days Onsite
We're partnering with a leading investment management firm that is transforming how database services are delivered through automation, self-service platforms, and modern database engineering practices.
This is not a traditional DBA role. The team is building a scalable database platform where infrastructure, deployments, and schema changes are treated as code. The focus is on eliminating manual processes through automation, standardization, and self-service capabilities.
What You'll Work On
- Design, build, and operate large-scale SQL Server and Snowflake environments.
- Automate database provisioning, patching, upgrades, and lifecycle management across fleets of database instances.
- Build self-service tools that enable developers and engineering teams to manage database resources safely and efficiently.
- Drive Infrastructure as Code and database automation initiatives using Terraform and Python.
- Implement declarative, version-controlled database deployment practices using modern CI/CD workflows.
- Partner with engineering teams to improve reliability, performance, observability, and scalability across critical systems.
- Help shape the future of the firm's database platform as it expands into technologies such as PostgreSQL, Kubernetes, Iceberg, and other modern data infrastructure tools.
What We're Looking For
- Deep SQL Server expertise, including:
- Performance tuning
- Query optimization
- Indexing strategies
- Always On Availability Groups
- Replication
- High availability and disaster recovery
- Security and troubleshooting
- Hands-on Snowflake experience.
- Strong Python scripting skills for automation and tooling development.
- Experience managing and automating large database environments rather than individual database instances.
- Terraform and Infrastructure-as-Code experience.
- AWS and/or Azure cloud experience.
- Strong understanding of CI/CD and automated deployment processes.
Preferred Experience
- Flyway, Liquibase, or Atlas.
- Kubernetes and Linux containers.
- PostgreSQL, Redis, ClickHouse, Iceberg, or Trino.
- GitOps and modern observability tooling.
- Technical leadership, mentorship, or team leadership experience.
Why This Role
This is an opportunity to move beyond traditional database administration and help build a modern, self-service database platform supporting a high-performance trading environment. The team values engineers who are passionate about automation, eager to learn new technologies, and excited to modernize how database infrastructure is built and operated.
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