
Support Engineer, Database Administrator
Stelo, a StarQuest Company
full-time
Posted on:
Location Type: Remote
Location: United States
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Salary
💰 $75,000 - $150,000 per year
About the role
- Provide timely and effective technical support to customers via Zendesk, email, phone, and remote sessions
- Perform software installation and upgrade as well as replication configuration and tuning
- Troubleshoot data replication issues and provide solutions to customers
- Play the DBA role for internal dev environments that include Db2, Oracle, Databricks, Big Query, Snowflake, Confluent, etc.
- Develop and maintain technical expertise in our data replication product and related technologies
- Document customer issues and solutions in our internal knowledge base
- Be available for occasional as-needed on-call support
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in computer science, information systems, or a related field
- 2+ years of experience in database administration including installation and configuration, performance tuning, backup and recovery and troubleshooting for relational databases such as Db2, Oracle, SQL Server, Postgres, MySQL.
- 2+ years of experience with big data and data warehouses technologies such as Microsoft Fabric's Lakehouse, Databricks, Kafka, Snowflake, Big Query, etc.
- Strong understanding of networking concepts such as TCP/IP, DNS, and routing, with hands-on experience troubleshooting connectivity issues in complex hybrid (on-prem/cloud) environments.
- Proficiency using diagnostic tools like Wireshark, traceroute, netstat, and cloud-native monitoring (e.g., AWS CloudWatch, Azure Network Watcher) to analyze connectivity and protocol behavior (TCP/IP, SSL/TLS) impacting replication stability and throughput
- Skilled at identifying and resolving performance bottlenecks in data replication workflows caused by network issues such as latency, packet loss, or SSL/VPN misconfigurations—both in customer on-premises and cloud-hosted environments (AWS/GCP/Azure)
- Familiarity with Linux and Windows Server environments
Benefits
- Generous health insurance coverage, employee benefits and retirement matching
- Employee is responsible for providing a suitable workspace
- Stelo will provide all necessary computer equipment
- 3 weeks paid vacation
- 11 Stelo holidays
- Monthly HSA contributions
- Salary $75,000-$150,000 commensurate with experience
- Candidate should expect to work Pacific time hours most days
- Employee will be assigned a fixed weekly schedule
- Annual bonuses
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Hard Skills & Tools
database administrationinstallationconfigurationperformance tuningbackup and recoverytroubleshootingdata replicationbig data technologiesdata warehousingnetworking concepts