Hiring: Senior Database Engineer Company: Madison-Davis, LLC Location: United States Job Posted Time: 2026-09-16 17:09:28 Target Skills & Keywords : AWS, Aurora, Azure, EC2, Infrastructure as Code, PostgreSQL, RDS, SQL, SQL Server About the job Required Skills: •Engineer and support highly available, business-critical SQL Server database environments. •Troubleshoot complex database performance, locking, blocking, resource, connectivity, and availability problems. •Analyze execution plans and optimize queries, stored procedures, indexes, schemas, statistics, and application data-access patterns. •Support database migrations and modernization initiatives involving AWS and managed database services. •Help evaluate and execute longer-term transitions toward PostgreSQL and cloud-native database platforms. •Build and improve database monitoring, telemetry, alerting, automation, and operational tooling. •Support backup/recovery, disaster recovery, replication, resiliency, patching, upgrades, and database lifecycle management. •Partner directly with application and infrastructure engineers during projects and production incidents. Qualifications: •Significant hands-on Microsoft SQL Server engineering/administration experience. •Advanced SQL Server troubleshooting and performance-tuning skills. •Production experience supporting databases in AWS. •Strong production-support and incident-resolution capabilities. •Demonstrated capacity to work broadly across database, cloud, application, monitoring, and operational concerns. •Comfortable working in a small engineering team where responsibilities are not heavily siloed. •Demonstrated capacity to work EST hours and participate in rotational production support. •PostgreSQL administration and performance tuning. Compensation: •$120,000 - $130,000 / year Interested candidates, please apply directly through the job posting on company's career page or try via AI auto apply on this platform. Don't miss this opportunity to join a forward-thinking team!