The Senior Database Engineer ensures the high availability, performance, and resilience of mission-critical database environments, primarily focusing on SQL Server while also supporting Oracle and PostgreSQL. Responsibilities include performance tuning, disaster recovery planning, and collaboration with multiple teams.
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About the Role:
We're looking for a Senior Database Engineer (DBA) to join a global, follow-the-sun team supporting mission-critical database platforms. This role plays a key part in ensuring the availability, performance, and resilience of our database environment supporting clearing operations.
You'll work across a diverse technology stack including SQL Server, Oracle (including Exadata), and PostgreSQL, within a primarily on-premises infrastructure. While SQL Server is the core focus for this US-based role, we welcome expertise across any of these platforms, as our global team collaborates closely across regions (Chicago, Europe, and APAC).
This is an exciting opportunity to join a growing team, influence operational maturity (including Kanban-based workflows), and contribute to a highly available, performance-driven environment.
This position is based in our Chicago office and requires a min of 3 days per week onsite in office.
Job Responsibilities:
Basic Qualifications:
Core Experience
SQL Server Expertise (Primary Focus)
Oracle (Nice to Have)
PostgreSQL (Nice to Have)
Preferred Qualifications:
Below is the expected base salary for this position. Offers will ultimately be determined based on experience, education, skill set, and performance in the interview process. This position will also be eligible for a discretionary bonus.
Annual base salary, not including discretionary bonus eligibility: $110,000 +
About the Role:
We're looking for a Senior Database Engineer (DBA) to join a global, follow-the-sun team supporting mission-critical database platforms. This role plays a key part in ensuring the availability, performance, and resilience of our database environment supporting clearing operations.
You'll work across a diverse technology stack including SQL Server, Oracle (including Exadata), and PostgreSQL, within a primarily on-premises infrastructure. While SQL Server is the core focus for this US-based role, we welcome expertise across any of these platforms, as our global team collaborates closely across regions (Chicago, Europe, and APAC).
This is an exciting opportunity to join a growing team, influence operational maturity (including Kanban-based workflows), and contribute to a highly available, performance-driven environment.
This position is based in our Chicago office and requires a min of 3 days per week onsite in office.
Job Responsibilities:
- Ensure high availability, performance, and reliability of production and non-production database environments
- Manage production, development, and disaster recovery systems
- Monitor database performance proactively and implement improvements to minimize downtime
- Perform capacity planning and trend analysis to support future growth
- Lead and support database upgrades, enhancements, and maintenance activities
- Collaborate with engineering, architecture, and business teams to deliver scalable solutions
- Troubleshoot incidents and act as an escalation point, including interaction with third-party vendors
- Develop and maintain automation for monitoring, alerting, and routine maintenance
- Design, test, and execute High Availability (HA) and Disaster Recovery (DR) strategies and runbooks
- Contribute to global infrastructure initiatives and ongoing modernization efforts
- Support a rotating on-call schedule and participate in cross-region handoffs
Basic Qualifications:
Core Experience
- 8+ years of hands-on DBA experience in enterprise environments
- Strong background supporting mission-critical, high-availability systems
- Experience working in on-premises infrastructure environments
- Ability to participate in an on-call rotation
SQL Server Expertise (Primary Focus)
- Installation, patching, and administration
- Advanced performance tuning and query optimization
- Backup/recovery strategies and disaster recovery planning
- Hands-on experience with:
- Always On Availability Groups
- Windows Server Failover Clustering (WSFC)
- Log shipping and replication strategies
- Strong T-SQL development (stored procedures, functions, triggers, CTEs)
- Experience with data compression, encryption (TDE), and migrations
Oracle (Nice to Have)
- Experience with Exadata and/or Oracle Database Appliance (ODA)
- OEM administration, patching, and upgrades
- Performance tuning and migration experience
- Familiarity with scripting (bash, awk, sed, PowerShell)
- Understanding of OS-level troubleshooting and networking basics
PostgreSQL (Nice to Have)
- Experience with logical and physical replication across environments
- Strong installation, patching, upgrade, and automation experience
- Performance tuning and troubleshooting expertise
- Backup and recovery using tools such as pgBackRest or Commvault
Preferred Qualifications:
- Experience in financial services or regulated environments
- Familiarity with tools like Jira and ServiceNow
- Exposure to global, distributed teams and follow-the-sun support models
Below is the expected base salary for this position. Offers will ultimately be determined based on experience, education, skill set, and performance in the interview process. This position will also be eligible for a discretionary bonus.
Annual base salary, not including discretionary bonus eligibility: $110,000 +
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