Senior Database Engineer

🕒 June 24

🇺🇸 United States – Remote

💵 $139.8k - $174.7k / year

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

🔙 Backend Engineer

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Payscale

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501 - 1000 employees

Founded 2002

💼 Consulting

📣 Marketing

👥 HR Tech

💰 $7M Venture Round on 2011-07

Consulting • Marketing • HR Tech

Payscale is a compensation data and software company that provides cloud-based compensation management solutions to HR leaders and compensation teams. Their products (Marketpay, Payfactors, Paycycle) combine proprietary pay data (over 250 billion data points) and AI-powered analytics to deliver market pricing, pay equity, compensation planning, and pay transparency tools for organizations of all sizes. Payscale offers services including customer success, implementation, managed services, and training; they produce research reports, surveys, and tools (salary research, cost-of-living calculator) to support data-driven pay decisions. The company serves enterprise and global clients, including Fortune 500 companies, and supports both employers and job seekers with compensation insights.

📋 Description

• Collaborate with stakeholders from across the organization to set priorities and drive toward implementation. • Ensure database systems meet all requirements of performance, availability, scalability, quality, and security to produce world class products. • Delivering high-quality work-products; champion quality standards, performance, and scalability. • Research innovative technologies and stay ahead of the industry. • Design and implement resilient and performant database processes and solutions. • Develop custom stored procedures, views, or user-defined functions. • Collaborate with cross-functional teams. • Debug and tune/optimize SQL code either directly or indirectly from the application. • Support Tier2 development team with database requests as needed (including bug fixes, production data manipulation and feature testing). • On-call duty may be required, responding to critical DB alerts, and escalating if needed.

🎯 Requirements

• Minimum of 7+ years of hands-on experience administering PostgreSQL databases. • Advanced experience with MariaDB administration and optimization. • Extensive knowledge of Pgpool-II for query load balancing, failover management, and connection routing between primary and standby nodes. • Hands-on experience with PostgreSQL replication, performance tuning, and maintenance operations. • Develop and maintain operational runbooks for PostgreSQL replication setup, failover recovery, and pooler troubleshooting. • Automate database deployment and maintenance tasks using shell scripts and infrastructure automation tools. • Experience with performance tuning and a broad knowledge base of indexing strategies, In-Memory OLTP technologies, and best practice SQL standards. • Hands-on experience building processes for OLTP and OLAP processing. • Support and encourage data engineering practices supporting a multi-source data ecosystem. • Ability to collaborate with SQL developers and solve problems. • Experience working in a microservice architecture with separate data sources per microservice. • Familiarity with one or more industry standard source control solutions (Git preferred - experience with DACPAC a plus). • Intrinsic self-starter and problem solver. • Agile experience.

🏖️ Benefits

• Flexible paid time off, giving you the opportunity to rest, relax and recharge away from work • 14 Paid Company Holidays, includes 2 floating holidays (you choose!) • A comprehensive benefits plan including medical, dental, life, vision, disability, and life insurance covered up to 100% by Payscale • Unlimited infertility coverage benefits through our medical plans • Additional supplemental health benefits offered to you and your family • 401(k) retirement program with a fully vested immediate company match • 16 weeks of paid parental leave for birthing and non-birthing parents • Health Savings Account (HSA) options and company contributions each pay period • Flexible Spending Account (FSA) options for pre-tax employee allocations • Annual remote work stipend to be used on wellness or home office equipment