Lead Database & Data Platform Engineer
TrustEngine United States · $150K/yr
Software Development · 51-200 employees
About the role
The Lead Database & Data Platform Engineer will take full ownership of the relational database estate, including managing SQL Server and MySQL environments. They will lead critical OS upgrades, set data standards, and ensure the reliability and security of the data infrastructure.
What they look for
Requirements
Candidates must have 7+ years of experience with deep hands-on Microsoft SQL Server administration and Windows Server management on EC2. Strong expertise in database high availability, AWS services, and prior experience managing production database estates is required.
Benefits
Full description
We are hiring a Senior DBA to take full ownership of our relational database estate. We are hiring the person who will own the database and data estate at TrustEngine end to end: assess what we have, run a time-critical upgrade as the first job, and then set the direction and standards that mature the whole environment. TrustEngine is the product of a merger, so we run two stacks — C#/.NET on Microsoft SQL Server, and TypeScript/JavaScript on MySQL — both in AWS. Our SQL Server is BYOL on EC2: we install, configure and operate it ourselves, an on-premise setup that happens to live in AWS. MySQL runs on RDS.
The role sits on our Platform team and is the senior technical authority on data for both engineering teams. The immediate need is someone who can hit the ground running on a time-critical OS upgrade before year end; the longer-term job is to leave the estate in a state we can stand behind with customers, auditors and our insurer.
Why this role: We are a merged company running two stacks, and the estate has not had a single accountable owner. We are looking for someone who wants to fix it properly rather than patch it, and who will be given the mandate to do so.
What You'll Do
- Deep and current Microsoft SQL Server administration — this is the core of the role
- Recent hands-on experience with full SQL Server installation and configuration on a server you manage yourself — Windows Server on EC2 or on-premise — not a managed service such as RDS or Azure SQL. Must include OS-level work beneath a live production instance.
- Windows Server administration, including OS upgrades and migrations
- Most recent SQL Server upgrade performed, stated on the profile: source and target versions, in-place or side-by-side, year, and the Windows Server version pairing. Career-span claims without versions will not be considered.
- SQL Server high availability — Always On Availability Groups, failover clustering
- MySQL administration
- AWS — EC2, RDS, S3, IAM, CloudWatch
- AI proficiency (e.g. Claude) applied to day-to-day work
- 7+ years of experience
- Prior end-to-end ownership of a production database estate, including assessing an inherited environment and driving it to a measurably better state
- Experience setting data standards and reviewing schema and data-access design across application teams
What You'll Bring
- Snowflake administration and development — preferred; our data engineering team covers Snowflake day to day
- ETL pipelines and tools (e.g. Rivery, dbt)
- Data warehouse design and development
- Data lake on S3
- BI/analytics and tools (e.g. Metabase, QuickSight)
- Data governance and data quality practice
- SQL Server migration to a managed service (RDS or equivalent)
Salary Range Up to $149,500
- 100% Remote position, with a virtual office
- Health Care Plan (Medical, Dental & Vision)
- Retirement Plan (401k, IRA)
- Life Insurance (Basic, Voluntary & AD&D)
- Flexible Paid Time Off (Vacation, Sick & Holidays)
- Family Leave (Maternity, Paternity)
- Short Term & Long Term Disability
- Training & Development
- Wellness Resources
