Data Engineer

🕒 September 16

🇺🇸 United States – Remote

💵 $160k - $180k / year

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

🔴 Lead

🚰 Data Engineer

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Smarsh

WebsiteLinkedInAll Job Openings

1001 - 5000 employees

Founded 2001

💼 Consulting

🏥 Healthcare

🛡️ Insurance

💰 Private Equity Round on 2016-01

Consulting • Healthcare • Insurance

Smarsh is the global leader in communications data and intelligence, focusing on digital communications compliance and risk management in regulated industries. With over two decades of experience, Smarsh delivers AI-enabled solutions to unlock business insights from communications data at scale. Trusted by 95% of top financial firms and managing billions of messages monthly, Smarsh offers services like chat capture, email archiving, and digital risk surveillance. Their platforms are designed to meet the diverse and evolving needs of financial services, government, healthcare, and other industries, enhancing productivity and ensuring compliance with digital communication governance challenges.

📋 Description

• Serve as a subject-matter expert for database architecture and performance • Guide engineers through complex or ambiguous technical problems • Set technical approaches for scalable data solutions with Product, Engineering, and Site Reliability stakeholders • Drive cross-functional projects from design through delivery • Identify and address upstream and downstream impacts • Mentor engineers and raise the technical bar across the team • Shape adoption of Agile, CI/CD, and DevOps practices • Review code and database changes for systemic risk and performance • Lead efforts to reduce technical debt • Evaluate emerging technologies and guide technology adoption • Interpret database health and performance data from Splunk, Datadog, and Grafana • Proactively identify and address risks before incidents occur

🎯 Requirements

• Advanced, wide-ranging experience with database systems • Deep expertise designing logical and physical data models, schema design, and data relationships • Demonstrated ability to tune queries and indexes and establish database performance standards • Strong command of data security practices, including encryption, access controls, and auditing • Experience troubleshooting complex issues in high-availability systems • Ability to plan for data growth and scale infrastructure • Ability to influence peers and cross-functional partners • Strong command of modern development practices and Agile methodologies • Ability to communicate technical direction, trade-offs, and risk clearly • Comfort working through evolving, ambiguous requirements • Proactive approach to solving cross-team problems • 7+ years of hands-on experience with Microsoft SQL Server in production • Expertise in schema and data model design, normalization, partitioning, and indexing strategy for OLTP workloads • Advanced proficiency in performance tuning, T-SQL, stored procedure optimization, execution plan analysis, and query tuning at scale • Experience managing and troubleshooting SQL Server databases at terabyte scale, including tables with billions of rows and sustained throughput exceeding 100,000 transactions per second • Ability to diagnose and resolve production capacity and contention issues, including lock/latch contention, TempDB performance, and transaction management • Experience designing for horizontal and vertical scalability • Familiarity with NoSQL technologies such as MongoDB, Cassandra, or DynamoDB is a plus • Experience with cloud database platforms such as AWS RDS/Aurora or MongoDB Atlas is a plus

🏖️ Benefits

• Medical, dental, and vision insurance • Flexible spending account for eligible out-of-pocket expenses • Stock options • Take-what-you-need personal time off policy • Flexible work arrangements • 4% 401K match, fully vested on day one • Sabbatical after six years of service • Employee recognition programme