Senior Database Engineer

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🕒 October 1

🇺🇸 United States – Remote

💵 $144k - $154k / year

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

🔙 Backend Engineer

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USA TODAY Network

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201 - 500 employees

📱 Media

📣 Marketing

🤝 B2B

Media • Marketing • B2B

USA TODAY Network is the national media and advertising arm of USA TODAY Co. , operating a large portfolio of local and national publications and offering a full suite of advertising and marketing solutions. It provides digital and print display advertising, direct mail, branded content, performance marketing, video, SEO, merchandising, and self-serve marketplace services, backed by data-driven technology, creative services, events and an AI-powered platform. The Network emphasizes local advertising reach supported by national scale and serves businesses across automotive, travel, finance, education, home improvement and other verticals.

📋 Description

• Design, build, and operate database systems on MySQL, PostgreSQL, and BigQuery, primarily on Google Cloud Platform • Maintain performance, availability, and security across LOCALiQ's production database estate • Ensure data safety and data integrity, including backup, recovery, and disaster recovery validation • Perform database operations such as upgrades, patching, schema changes, replication management, and capacity planning • Tune and troubleshoot slow queries, blocking, and replication issues alongside application teams • Review database changes to minimize deployment risk and help teams design scalable schemas and access patterns • Automate recurring operational work through scripting, infrastructure as code, and CI/CD pipelines • Participate in a scheduled 24x7 on-call rotation shared with other team members • Partner with software engineers, data engineers, analysts, and data scientists to keep data platforms fast, safe, and available • Help operate and improve the database systems powering LOCALiQ's digital marketing management systems

🎯 Requirements

• 3+ years of experience in a Database Engineer, Database Administrator, or similar role • Hands-on experience managing production database infrastructure in a cloud environment (GCP, AWS, or Azure) • Working knowledge of relational databases — MySQL and/or PostgreSQL — including administration, replication, and backup/recovery • Strong SQL skills, including the ability to read, write, and optimize non-trivial queries • Programming experience in at least one language — Python preferred, but Go, Java, Ruby, or similar are all valuable • Experience with Git version control and working on code as part of a team • Sound judgment around change management, risk, and data integrity in production systems • BS or MS in Computer Science or a related field, or equivalent practical experience • Curiosity, self-direction, and a bias toward automating repetitive work • Experience with Google Cloud Platform, particularly Cloud SQL, BigQuery, GKE, and Pub/Sub (equivalent AWS experience with RDS, Redshift, EKS, and SQS is welcome) • Experience with BigQuery or another cloud data warehouse, including cost and performance optimization • Experience with data modeling and data transformation tools like Dataform or DBT • Experience with infrastructure as code (Terraform), containers, and CI/CD practices such as test automation and automated deployments • Comfort working in an Agile/Scrum environment • Exposure to digital marketing or online advertising data (SEO/SEM) is an advantage

🏖️ Benefits

• Variable incentive compensation, including commissions, may be applicable • Support of a senior team • Scheduled 24x7 on-call rotation shared with other team members