Agiloft

Senior Database Administrator, Performance Engineer

Agiloft

full-time

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Location Type: Remote

Location: United States

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Job Level

Senior

Tech Stack

AWSMS SQL ServerMySQLPostgresSQL

About the role

  • Ensure the availability, restorability, and performance of our fleet of database servers serving production customer SaaS, hosted in AWS.
  • Collaborate with DevOps Engineers, Application Software Engineers, QA, and product specialists to troubleshoot and resolve performance challenges in production services.
  • Participate in the product development process to help ensure optimal performance and database designs for new enhancements.

Requirements

  • Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field, or equivalent experience.
  • 5+ years of experience as a Database Administrator, with a strong focus on performance engineering.
  • Proficiency with AWS database services (e.g., Amazon RDS, Amazon Aurora) and their management.
  • Extensive experience in performance tuning, query optimization, and index management.
  • Solid understanding of backup/restore methodologies, real-time replication optimization, and disaster recovery processes.
  • Strong SQL skills and familiarity with multiple relational database management systems including MySQL, PostgreSQL, MS SQL Server.
  • Experience with adopting AI to supplement code development (Cursor, Copilot)
  • Excellent problem-solving abilities and a proactive approach to optimizing database systems.
Benefits
  • floating holidays
  • quarterly, no-questions-asked wellness day

Applicant Tracking System Keywords

Tip: use these terms in your resume and cover letter to boost ATS matches.

Hard skills
database administrationperformance engineeringAWS database servicesperformance tuningquery optimizationindex managementbackup/restore methodologiesreal-time replication optimizationdisaster recovery processesSQL
Soft skills
problem-solvingproactive approach