🔥 1 hour ago
AWS Database Engineer supporting CACI’s mission-critical GrantSolutions federal platform. Building Oracle, PostgreSQL, AWS, ETL, migration, and AI-enabled database solutions.
🇺🇸 United States – Remote
💵 $90.3k - $189.6k / year
⏰ Full Time
🟡 Mid-level
🟠 Senior
🔙 Backend Engineer
👻 Ghost score 0%
Amazon Redshift
AWS
Azure
Cloud
Cyber Security
ETL
Informatica
Matillion
MySQL
Oracle
Postgres
SQL
🔥 4 hours ago
Senior database administrator supporting Oracle, Postgres, and MS SQL systems for US federal government missions. Maintaining enterprise databases, resolving issues, and deploying infrastructure improvements.
🏛️ District of Columbia, Virginia, +1 more states – Remote
💵 $102.3k - $203.4k / year
⏰ Full Time
🟠 Senior
📀 Database Administrator
👻 Ghost score 0%
🕒 Yesterday
Database Support Engineer supporting customers with TimescaleDB administration, design, and optimization. Troubleshooting PostgreSQL workloads for Tiger Data’s real-time data infrastructure platform.
AWS
Azure
Cloud
Google Cloud Platform
NoSQL
Postgres
🕒 4 days ago
10,000+ employees
Database Administrator troubleshooting SQL Server, Windows Server, IIS, and enterprise software infrastructure. Supporting performance, clustering, replication, scripting, and system-level technical issues.
🕒 4 days ago
Database Administrator troubleshooting SQL Server, Windows Server, IIS, and enterprise software issues. Supporting system and application reliability through technical diagnosis and T-SQL analysis.
🕒 5 days ago
Database Administrator managing secure, high-performing SQL Server and MongoDB environments for BHG Financial. Optimizing Azure infrastructure, automation, availability, recovery, and compliance.
🕒 5 days ago
Senior Database Administrator supporting Koniag’s federal customer with SQL Server and Oracle environments. Leading AWS migrations, security, performance, availability, and DBA mentorship.
🕒 5 days ago
SQL Server DBA managing high-availability AWS-hosted databases for Quantiphi’s AI-first digital engineering consultancy. Optimizing performance, disaster recovery, security, and production support for trading systems.
🗽 New York – Remote
💰 Series A on 2019-12
⏰ Full Time
🟠 Senior
🔴 Lead
📀 Database Administrator
🦅 H1B Visa Sponsor
👻 Ghost score 10%
🕒 6 days ago
Senior Database Engineer modernizing SurveyMonkey’s cloud-native, globally distributed data architecture. Managing SQL Server, MySQL, PostgreSQL, and cloud database systems.
Ansible
AWS
Cloud
DynamoDB
ETL
MySQL
NoSQL
Postgres
Python
SQL
Terraform
Unix
🕒 6 days ago
Database Administrator managing Oracle databases, GoldenGate, RAC, backups, and performance. Supporting European Dynamics’ enterprise software and government IT projects.
🗣️🇩🇪 German Required
🕒 6 days ago
Database Engineer II designing cloud databases, data models, and Azure pipelines. Supporting InnovAge’s PACE healthcare services that help seniors age safely in their communities.
🇺🇸 United States – Remote
💵 $86.8k - $112.9k / year
⏰ Full Time
🟡 Mid-level
🟠 Senior
🔙 Backend Engineer
👻 Ghost score 0%
Azure
Cloud
SDLC
SQL
🕒 August 18
Database Administrator supporting Oracle, PostgreSQL, and SQL Server environments for Cherokee Federal’s federal customers. Managing monitoring, backups, upgrades, patching, troubleshooting, and performance optimization for mission-critical systems.
🇺🇸 United States – Remote
💵 $110k - $120k / year
⏰ Full Time
🟡 Mid-level
🟠 Senior
📀 Database Administrator
👻 Ghost score 0%
🕒 August 18
Data Engineer modernizing CMS healthcare data pipelines at RELI Group, a government-services consulting company. Building AWS and Databricks lakehouse solutions for analytics, reporting, compliance, and operational decisions.
🦀 Maryland – Remote
💵 $62.6k - $91.8k / year
⏰ Full Time
🟡 Mid-level
🟠 Senior
📀 Database Administrator
🦅 H1B Visa Sponsor
👻 Ghost score 20%
🕒 August 14
Senior Database Engineer modernizing relational databases for Redapt, a data center infrastructure and cloud services provider. Designing AWS, PostgreSQL, migration, performance, and HA/DR solutions.
🎰 Nevada, Washington – Remote
💵 $130k - $150k / year
⏰ Full Time
🟠 Senior
🔙 Backend Engineer
👻 Ghost score 0%
AWS
Cloud
MySQL
Oracle
PostGIS
Postgres
Python
SQL
Terraform
🕒 August 14
SQL DBA Engineer maintaining Atos’s Microsoft SQL Server warehouse and production infrastructure. Supporting secure, high-performance digital transformation services through deployment, recovery, tuning, and automation.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom – Remote
⏰ Full Time
🟡 Mid-level
🟠 Senior
👷🏻♀️ Engineer
🇬🇧 UK Skilled Worker Visa Sponsor
👻 Ghost score 11%
MS SQL Server
Oracle
SQL
SSIS
🕒 August 14
Database Administrator leading secure, resilient enterprise databases for Electrosoft, a federal technology solutions provider. Supporting mission-critical operations, cybersecurity compliance, cloud modernization, and infrastructure reliability.
🕒 August 14
Database Engineer III developing cloud database products for InnovAge’s PACE senior-care program. Designing data architectures, pipelines, warehouses, and performance solutions while mentoring engineers.
Azure
Cloud
SDLC
SQL
🕒 August 14
Senior Database Administrator scaling PostgreSQL infrastructure for PDQ’s SaaS device-management platform. Driving database reliability, performance, security, observability and automation across engineering teams.
🕒 August 14
SQL DBA Engineer maintaining secure, high-performance Microsoft SQL Server infrastructure for Atos digital transformation services. Supporting migrations, backups, recovery, replication, performance tuning, and enterprise data warehouses.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom – Remote
⏰ Full Time
🟡 Mid-level
🟠 Senior
👷🏻♀️ Engineer
🇬🇧 UK Skilled Worker Visa Sponsor
👻 Ghost score 11%
MS SQL Server
Oracle
SQL
SSIS
🕒 August 13
Staff Database Engineer implementing AWS multi-region replication for Solvd’s enterprise payments-platform migration. Building DynamoDB resilience, CDC pipelines, observability, and failover automation.
AWS
Cassandra
DNS
DynamoDB
Kafka
Linux
Microservices
MySQL
Redis
Terraform
+99 More Database Engineer Jobs Available!
The average salary for remote database engineers is $139,838 per year. This is based on data from 269 job openings. Our advanced AI searches the internet for remote job openings and posts them on our website. We use the salary data from these job postings to calculate salary expectations.
Below is a breakdown of salary data by years of experience:
| Experience | Number of roles analyzed | Average Salary |
|---|---|---|
🟢 Junior Database Engineer (1-2 yrs) | 11 | $118,750 |
🟡 Mid-level Database Engineer (2-4 yrs) | 95 | $119,006 |
🟠 Senior Database Engineer (5-9 yrs) | 146 | $148,681 |
🔴 Lead Database Engineer (10+ yrs) | 17 | $193,944 |
We analyzed 211 job listings in the last year and found it takes about 52 days for employers to close a job opening.
We reviewed 269 job postings and found the top 10 skills employers are asking for most often are:
You need strong SQL skills, familiarity with database management systems like MySQL, PostgreSQL, or Oracle, and knowledge of data modeling and design. Proficiency in programming languages such as Python or Java is also helpful, along with problem-solving and analytical skills.
Typically, a degree in computer science, information technology, or a related field is required. Certifications in database technologies or cloud services can enhance your qualifications, but practical experience and a portfolio demonstrating your work can be equally important.
Responsibilities include designing, implementing, and maintaining databases, optimizing database performance, ensuring data integrity and security, conducting data backups, and collaborating with developers and other teams on database needs. You'll also need to troubleshoot and resolve database issues.
Benefits include flexibility in work location and hours, reduced commuting costs and time, a better work-life balance, and opportunities to work with diverse teams and technologies. Remote work can also provide exposure to global projects and companies.
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