Senior Database Engineer – SQL

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🏰 Missouri – Remote

🏰 Missouri – Remote

💵 $91k - $145.6k / year

⏰ Full Time

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🔙 Backend Engineer

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Founded 1955

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H&R Block is a U. S. -based tax preparation and financial services company that provides in-person and online tax filing, tax professionals, small business bookkeeping and payroll, and related financial products such as refund advances and prepaid cards. Founded in 1955, it operates retail tax offices, franchises, and digital platforms to serve consumers and small businesses with tax, accounting, and financial solutions.

📋 Description

• Architect, engineer, implement, operate, and continuously improve database platforms supporting business applications across cloud and on-premises environments • Design, implement, and modernize secure, highly available, scalable, and cost-effective database solutions on Microsoft SQL Server, Azure SQL, and Cosmos DB • Establish reusable architecture patterns, engineering standards, and guardrails for availability, performance, capacity, backup and recovery, disaster recovery, security, compliance, and lifecycle management • Automate database provisioning, configuration, deployment, patching, monitoring, backup, recovery, and remediation using infrastructure as code, Azure DevOps CI/CD pipelines, source control, scripting, APIs, and automated testing • Drive performance engineering across queries, indexing, execution plans, and resource utilization • Identify reliability, capacity, security, and technical-debt risks before service disruption • Serve as a technical escalation point for complex incidents, database recoveries, disaster recovery exercises, and high-risk changes • Lead root-cause analysis and preventative controls and participate in on-call support • Apply AI and agentic development in day-to-day engineering and evaluate AI-assisted and autonomous operations with appropriate oversight, security, and compliance controls • Provide technical leadership through design, code, and infrastructure reviews • Mentor Database Administrators and engineers • Influence database standards, roadmaps, and adoption of emerging technologies • Partner with application, platform, cybersecurity, architecture, governance, and other technology teams

🎯 Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent combination of education and experience • 5+ years of database administration, database engineering, or related experience supporting enterprise database environments • Advanced experience with Microsoft SQL Server and/or Azure SQL, including administration, performance tuning, high availability, backup and recovery, and security • Experience designing and operating database platforms in Azure or a comparable public cloud, including hybrid environments and managed database services • Experience with infrastructure as code, CI/CD, source control, or scripting for infrastructure and operational automation • Experience troubleshooting complex production database issues and performing root-cause analysis • Ability to independently lead complex technical initiatives, communicate risks and trade-offs to technical and business stakeholders, and mentor other engineers • Preferred: Experience with Terraform, Azure DevOps, GitHub, automated deployment pipelines, and automated testing • Preferred: Experience operating highly available, business-critical database platforms at enterprise scale, including observability and SRE practices • Preferred: Experience designing self-service infrastructure or platform capabilities for application development teams • Preferred: Experience applying AI or agentic automation to database engineering, operations, or software-development workflows • Preferred: Experience with Azure SQL and other platforms such as MongoDB and/or Cosmos DB

🏖️ Benefits

• Medical and prescription drug coverage for qualifying associates and eligible dependents • H&R Block Retirement Savings Plan (401(k) Plan) • Employee Assistance Program • (Virtual) fitness center programs • Associate discount program • Business Travel Accident Insurance • Associate Tax Prep benefit • Competitive pay • Comprehensive benefits • Support for life both in and outside of work • Continuous learning • Incentive compensation or short-term incentive plans may provide additional earnings

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