Database Engineer

JR United Kingdom; Cambridge; Hybrid; GBP 50,000 - 75,000; Full time

Job summary

Grid Edge is seeking an exceptional Database Engineer to drive database excellence across our cloud-native platform. This pivotal role involves owning the database infrastructure, optimizing performance, and mentoring teams, essential for supporting our mission toward net-zero commercial buildings. Strong candidates will demonstrate expertise in cloud-hosted PostgreSQL databases, advanced SQL capabilities, and have a desire to shape our data architecture.

Benefits

Flexible holiday allowance

Flexible working hours

Enhanced parental leave policies

Healthcare schemes

Pension

Qualifications

• Experience managing cloud-hosted PostgreSQL databases at scale.
• Advanced SQL query optimization and performance tuning capabilities.
• Experience mentoring development teams and conducting technical training.

Responsibilities

• Ownership of the database infrastructure and its health.
• Implementation of database best practices and performance optimization.
• Developing comprehensive monitoring strategies for database management.

Skills

Database Optimization

Cloud Database Management

SQL

Performance Tuning

Python

Data Security

Communication

Tools

PostgreSQL

Grafana

Datadog

CI/CD

pg_tap

pytest

Job description

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Join Our Mission to Power Commercial Buildings to Net-Zero!

Grid Edge is an award-winning AI company specializing in the energy sector, and we're the AI that is powering commercial buildings to net-zero. We're seeking an exceptional Database Engineer to join our cause and drive database excellence across our rapidly growing cloud-native platform.

About This Role:

Grid Edge is seeking a skilled Database Engineer to become a key contributor to our expanding team, taking ownership of our growing cloud-native database platform. You will be responsible for the health and evolution of our database infrastructure, ensuring it can support our growing customer base and ambitious goals. This is not just a database operations role; you will work closely with data engineers and software developers, implementing database best practices, optimizing performance, and designing solutions to meet product demands.

As our Database Engineer, you'll take complete ownership of database schema design, implementation, and evolution across all environments. You'll be responsible for query optimization and performance tuning, managing database capacity planning, and designing backup and recovery procedures to maintain our SLOs. Your work will include developing comprehensive monitoring strategies and exploring multi-tenant database approaches to support future growth requirements.

You will champion database best practices across the engineering organization, ensuring we deliver a scalable, reliable, and high-performance platform. You'll mentor development teams on query optimization, provide technical training on database design standards, and create standardized processes that multiply the entire team's productivity through automation.

As Grid Edge continues to grow, this role offers significant opportunities for increased autonomy and professional development, allowing you to shape the future of our database architecture while contributing directly to our mission of powering commercial buildings to net-zero.

Key Skills and Experience We're Looking For:

• Excellent experience managing cloud-hosted PostgreSQL databases at scale, including multi-tenant and sharded databases
• Strong experience with time-series data management, ideally using Timescale
• Advanced SQL query optimization and performance tuning capabilities including index design and usage analysis
• Experience with database security, access control, compliance requirements, and disaster recovery.
• Experience with cloud database services and monitoring tools including Grafana and Datadog
• Proficiency in Python for database automation and tooling development
• Knowledge of CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure-as-code, and modern development practices
• Experience with unit testing frameworks such as pg_tap or pytest
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills with ability to present complex technical information clearly
• Experience mentoring development teams and conducting technical training on database design standards and query best practices.
• Proven ability to work in agile environments and collaborate with cross-functional teams

Why Join Grid Edge?

What We Offer:

• Hybrid working with regular connection events at our Birmingham office
• 26 days of flexible holiday allowance and flexible working hours
• Enhanced parental and family leave policies
• Comprehensive benefits including income protection, life assurance, healthcare schemes, and pension

Our Commitment to Diversity & Inclusion

We care for our employees as much as we care for the planet, embracing diversity as an inclusive employer. Everyone's welcome, everyone's respected, and that's how we roll. We are always looking for individuals who bring something different to the team.

Ready to drive database excellence and help power the world toward net-zero?

We'd love to hear from you.

Values:

• Responsible
• Open Minded
• Customer First

Our UK office is two minutes walk from New Street Station in Birmingham. Although we expect everyone to be able to get to the office, we encourage flexibility that accelerates our mission. After all, we have a planet to save.

Please note that we will not be using agencies for this role, all applications will be dealt with directly.