Senior Database Engineer

State Street

Senior Database Engineer contributing to the maintenance of Charles River's cloud-based investment platform. Collaborating with cross-functional teams for optimization and performance improvement projects.

Posted 6/26/2026full-timeKrakow • 🇵🇱 PolandSenior💰 PLN 282,000 per yearWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

AzureCloudMS SQL ServerNoSQLRDBMSSQL

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Join us as a leading technical contributor to the enhancement and maintenance of one or more Charles River IMS modules or components of an agile scrum team.
Be a part of strategic development projects and contribute to mission-critical optimization, resiliency, and performance improvement work for our clients.
Collaborate with engineering, product, QA and sales teams to drive the platform innovation and modernization.
Design and implement scalable, performant and highly available distributed database solutions
Collaborate with peers across scrum teams to design and deliver database design conforming to database best practices and meet business and application requirements
Create and maintain comprehensive documentation of database design, data models, configurations, and processes
Write complex SQL queries, stored procedures, and script to support application development
Optimize performance through indexing, SQL query optimization, and other database tuning techniques
Monitor database performance metrics, analyze and identify bottlenecks, and recommend short-term and long-term solutions
Collaborate with engineering teams to define performance test strategy, and develop toolsets to generate synthetic datasets for effective and repeatable performance tests
Implement and manage database security, including access controls, encryption, and auditing
Collaborate with production DBA team to troubleshoot and resolve database production issue in timely manner
Monitor and maintain database health to ensure data integrity, availability, and disaster recovery
Perform database installation, configuration, and upgrades in lower environments

Requirements

What you’ll need

10+ years of professional software engineering experience with enterprise applications backed with RDBMS databases
5+ years of experience as a Database Architect or in a similar role supporting enterprise applications
Extensive hands-on experience in RDBMS and distributed data platforms as a database developer
Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with ability to troubleshoot and resolve database related issues
Proficiency in SQL performance tuning in MS SQL Server
Strong track record of building high performance, production quality software on schedule
Ability to work independently, handle multiple tasks simultaneously and adapt quickly to changes
Excellent communication skills (verbal and written) with the ability to convey complex technical concepts to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
Nice To have
Expert experience with hardware sizing and configuration, operating systems, scripting, and database technologies
Experience in NoSQL databases is preferred
Experience with cloud database services such as Azure SQL Database
A minimum of 7 years working with an Agile development methodology strongly desired
Experience with developing applications for the financial markets is a plus (Fixed Income, Trading, FX, Risk, Portfolio/Wealth Management, Market Data, FIX, etc.)

Benefits

Comp & perks

Permanent contract from day one
Additional holidays (Birthday Day Off, 3rd and 5th year anniversary Day Off)
Gold Medical Package for employees and their families (partner and children)
Premium life insurance package and private pension plan
Wide range of soft skills training, technical workshops, language classes and development programs
Opportunities to volunteer your time to company-driven initiatives, employee networks or organizations of your choice
Variety of well-being programs
Additional benefits available depending on the seniority of the role

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Hard Skills & Tools

SQLRDBMSdatabase designperformance tuningdatabase securitydistributed database solutionsstored proceduresdatabase installationdatabase configurationdatabase upgrades

Soft Skills

analytical skillsproblem-solving skillscommunication skillsindependencemultitaskingadaptability