Senior Database Engineer

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🇺🇸 United States – Remote

💵 $144k - $154k / year

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

🔙 Backend Engineer

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LocaliQ

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1001 - 5000 employees

📣 Marketing

☁️ SaaS

🤝 B2B

Marketing • SaaS • B2B

LocaliQ is a digital marketing platform and services provider that helps businesses grow leads, revenue, and online visibility through data-backed, multi-channel marketing solutions. LocaliQ offers paid advertising (search, display, video, social), SEO, website and listings management, targeted email marketing, landing pages, AI-powered lead management (Dash), reporting and analytics, and managed local marketing expertise across many verticals and multi-location businesses. The company targets small-to-medium businesses and agencies with an all-in-one platform and professional services; site metrics indicate large scale: 283M leads generated, $15. 9B total revenue attributed, 142M hours saved, and 512K+ businesses served.

📋 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 routine 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 schemas and access patterns that scale • 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

🎯 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