Senior Cloud Database Engineer: SQL & Data Architecture

State Street; Kraków; Hybrid; PLN 164,000 - 200,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Permanent contract from day one

Birthday Day Off

Gold Medical Package

Private pension plan

Training and development programs

Job summary

State Street is seeking a senior database engineer to design, develop, and optimize distributed database systems. You will work across Scrum teams to ensure scalable, secure data architectures, while mentoring junior engineers and ensuring high-quality, timely delivery.

The role requires 5+ years of hands-on experience with RDBMS and Snowflake, strong SQL tuning skills, and a track record of delivering production-grade software in an Agile environment.

Qualifications

• B.S. degree (or foreign education equivalent) in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, and Physics or other technical course of study required. MS degree strongly preferred.
• 5 to 7+ years of professional software engineering experience with enterprise applications backed with RDBMS databases or Snowflake.
• 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, Oracle, or Snowflake.
• 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.
• A minimum of 5 years working with an Agile development methodology strongly desired.

Responsibilities

• 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
• Provide thought leadership on the topic of database technologies and data modeling within and beyond the team’s scope of responsibility
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams, including engineering, SaaS Operation, support, and implementation, to ensure seamless integration of database systems
• Provide technical mentorship to junior database engineers

Skills

RDBMS

Snowflake

SQL performance tuning

Agile methodologies

Education

B.S. in CS/Engineering/Math/Physics

MS degree preferred

Tools

Azure SQL Database

AWS RDS

NoSQL databases

Job description

State Street is seeking a senior database engineer to design, develop, and optimize distributed database systems. You will work across Scrum teams to ensure scalable, secure data architectures, while mentoring junior engineers and ensuring high-quality, timely delivery.

The role requires 5+ years of hands-on experience with RDBMS and Snowflake, strong SQL tuning skills, and a track record of delivering production-grade software in an Agile environment.