Sr. Database Engineer - NokeUS-GA-Atlanta
Job ID: 2026-6274
Type: Full-Time
# of Openings: 1
Category: Information Technology
Noke - Atlanta, GA
OverviewWe're hiring a
Senior Database Engineer to design, build, and operate
AWS-native, production grade databases. You will own
DBA/admin responsibilities,
performance tuning,
and end-to-end observability of highly available databases (SQL & NoSQL) to ensure reliable, secure, and discoverable data at-scale.
Responsibilities- Own installation, configuration, upgrades, backup/restore, HA/DR, capacity planning maintenance, runtime of Aurora/RDS (MySQL/Postgres), Redshift, DynamoDB, and TimescaleDB.
- Implement database connection and memory management, lock contentions, deadlock remediations etc. to ensure database scalability and reliability. Perform data validation, de-duplication, and cleanup tasks to maintain integrity.
- Partner with Product, and other engineering teams to enable cross-functional software delivery of new/enhanced platform functions, realtime and batch, scheduled/ad-hoc data analytics, reporting across use cases.
Perform
SQL and NoSQL performance tuning (indexes, query plans, hot partition mitigation, connection/session tuning, auto-vacuum/maintenance) and
root cause analysis for latency and throughput issues.Implement
data quality checks,
data drift monitoring, and
diffing across environments; alert on SLO/SLA breaches.Build and own
end to end monitoring and dashboards using
CloudWatch/Prometheus (or equivalent) across storage, and serving layers, to track database health, identify slow queries, and escalate performance issues.Treat data as code:
version controlled pipelines,
CI/CD for ETL/ELT, db scripts, stored procedures and automated
testing/validation,
environment promotion with rollback.
QualificationsMustHave Qualifications3+ years in data engineering (or equivalent) with deep
AWS expertise in building and maintaining production data platforms.
3+ years of proven
DBA/admin expertise and experience across
RDBMS (Aurora/RDS: MySQL/Postgres; Redshift)
and NoSQL (DynamoDB, MongoDB): installation, upgrades, backup/restore, HA/DR, security, maintenance and performance tuning.
3+ years of expertise in
production maintenance of distributed databases, across large-scale data lifecycles -including designing, maintaining partitioning, archiving, purging etc.Working knowledge with
Automation and Performance observability tools, to automate anomaly detection, proactive scaling alarms and build self-healing runtime operations tasks.
PHYSICAL DEMANDS:Regularly required to sit, stand, and walk.Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions of the position.
Equal Employment Opportunity/M/F/disability/protected veteran statusEqual employment opportunity, including veterans and individuals with disabilities.
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