Senior Database Engineer

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🇨🇦 Canada – Remote

💵 $95.2k - $137k / year

⏰ Full Time

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🔙 Backend Engineer

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SurveyMonkey

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1001 - 5000 employees

☁️ SaaS

🤝 B2B

SaaS • B2B

SurveyMonkey is an online survey and forms platform that lets organizations and individuals build, send, and analyze surveys to collect feedback and insights. The platform offers 500+ templates, AI-assisted survey creation, a global audience panel of 335M+ respondents, analytics and integrations, and enterprise-grade features for secure, large-scale survey programs. It’s used across customer experience, employee feedback, market research, event registration, and more; the company markets itself as a continuous insights/SaaS platform serving 260K+ organizations worldwide.

📋 Description

• Partner with cross-functional engineering teams to design and implement scalable, reliable data store solutions for online and analytical workloads • Manage and optimize SQL Server and MySQL databases, including schema design, query tuning, replication, backup/recovery, and performance monitoring • Implement and maintain data integration pipelines across heterogeneous data stores • Follow and promote best practices for relational and NoSQL database design • Collaborate with data engineering and data science teams to understand data challenges and deliver scalable, flexible solutions • Contribute to data governance and security initiatives for the data platform • Troubleshoot issues across the full stack, including hardware, software, and network • Design and build automation and tooling across the software development lifecycle, including provisioning, version control, CI/CD, and deployment • Work with Software Engineering teams to implement product-development solutions and write stored procedures and scripts as needed • Participate in the on-call rotation as needed • Research emerging technologies and recommend solutions to support SurveyMonkey's evolving data platform and strategy

🎯 Requirements

• 7+ years of experience managing high-performing databases in production environments • 5+ years of hands-on experience with strong SQL query skills, including complex, highly optimized queries across large datasets • 3+ years of hands-on experience designing, optimizing, and managing PostgreSQL databases in production environments • Strong expertise in SQL Server, including clustering, high availability groups, vertical and horizontal partitioning • Strong expertise in MySQL, including replication, partitioning, indexing, stored procedures, and performance tuning • 3+ years of experience writing and maintaining Terraform configurations to provision and manage cloud infrastructure • Hands-on experience with vector databases such as Pinecone, Milvus, Qdrant, or pgvector • 2+ years of experience with cloud-based database solutions such as AWS RDS, Aurora, and DynamoDB • Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science or a related field; AWS certification is a plus • Solid understanding of relational and analytical database solutions, NoSQL data stores, and data warehouse concepts • Experience with ETL development and highly available database architectures in on-premises and cloud environments • Experience with Windows and/or Unix systems administration • Experience writing Python, Bash, PowerShell, or other scripting languages • Experience with configuration management systems; Ansible is a plus • Experience working with virtualized environments • Experience with repeatable automation at both the OS and database level • Ability to work effectively as part of a geographically dispersed team • Strong communication skills and ability to present data modeling decisions clearly • Must reside in a registered hiring location: Ontario or Alberta • Must be legally entitled to work in Canada

🏖️ Benefits

• Bonuses may be offered as part of the total compensation package • Medical insurance • Dental insurance • Vision insurance • Life insurance • Disability insurance • RRSP matching • Flexible spending and health savings account • Paid holidays • Paid time off • Employee assistance program • Flexible, hybrid work environment • Company events • CHOICE Fund programs • Accommodations for applicants with disabilities