Senior DB & Data Platform Lead - Remote

TrustEngine; Polska; Hybrid; PLN 523,000 - 640,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health Care Plan

Retirement Plan

Life Insurance

Flexible Paid Time Off

Family Leave

Disability Coverage

Training & Development

Wellness Resources

Job summary

TrustEngine is seeking a Senior DBA to own the relational database estate end to end. You will oversee two stacks: SQL Server on Windows Server in EC2/on-premise and MySQL on AWS RDS, with governance and upgrades as priorities.

This role sits on the Platform team as the senior technical authority on data across engineering groups. You will lead a time-critical OS upgrade and establish standards that support auditors, insurers, and customers.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of experience as a production DBA with end-to-end ownership.
• Hands-on SQL Server administration on Windows Server in AWS or on-premise (EC2)
• Experience with SQL Server upgrades and OS migrations
• Experience with data governance and data quality practices

Responsibilities

• Deep and current Microsoft SQL Server administration — core duty.
• Install and configure SQL Server on a server you manage yourself — Windows Server on EC2 or on-premise.
• Windows Server administration, including OS upgrades and migrations.
• Plan and execute SQL Server upgrades with versions and Windows Server pairing.
• SQL Server high availability — Always On and failover clustering.
• MySQL administration and AWS services (EC2, RDS, S3, IAM, CloudWatch).
• Apply AI tools to daily tasks.
• 7+ years of experience and end-to-end ownership of a production database estate.

Skills

SQL Server administration

AWS cloud

Windows Server administration

Database estate ownership

Data governance

Tools

Snowflake

Rivery

dbt

Metabase

QuickSight

Job description

We are hiring a Lead Database & Data Platform Engineer to take full ownership of our relational database estate. We are hiring the person who will own the database and data estate at TrustEngine end to end: assess what we have, run a time-critical upgrade as the first job, and then set the direction and standards that mature the whole environment. TrustEngine is the product of a merger, so we run two stacks — C#/.NET on Microsoft SQL Server, and TypeScript/JavaScript on MySQL — both in AWS. Our SQL Server is BYOL on EC2: we install, configure, and operate it ourselves, an on-premises setup that happens to live in AWS. MySQL runs on RDS.

The role sits on our Platform team and is the senior technical authority on data for both engineering teams. The immediate need is someone who can hit the ground running on a time-critical OS upgrade before year-end; the longer-term job is to leave the estate in a state we can stand behind with customers, auditors, and our insurer.

Why this role: We are a merged company running two stacks, and the estate has not had a single accountable owner. We are looking for someone who wants to fix it properly rather than patch it, and who will be given the mandate to do so.

What You'll Do

• Deep and current Microsoft SQL Server administration — this is the core of the role
• Recent hands-on experience with full SQL Server installation and configuration on a server you manage yourself — Windows Server on EC2 or on-premises — not a managed service such as RDS or Azure SQL. Must include OS-level work beneath a live production instance.
• Windows Server administration, including OS upgrades and migrations
• Most recent SQL Server upgrade performed, stated on the profile: source and target versions, in-place or side-by-side, year, and the Windows Server version pairing. Career-span claims without versions will not be considered.
• SQL Server high availability — Always On Availability Groups, failover clustering
• MySQL administration
• AWS — EC2, RDS, S3, IAM, CloudWatch
• AI proficiency (e.g., Claude) applied to day-to-day work
• 7+ years of experience
• Prior end-to-end ownership of a production database estate, including assessing an inherited environment and driving it to a measurably better state
• Experience setting data standards and reviewing schema and data-access design across application teams

What You'll Bring

• Snowflake administration and development — preferred; our data engineering team covers Snowflake day to day
• ETL pipelines and tools (e.g. Rivery, dbt)
• Data warehouse design and development
• Data lake on S3
• BI/analytics and tools (e.g. Metabase, QuickSight)
• Data governance and data quality practice
• SQL Server migration to a managed service (RDS or equivalent)

Salary Range Up to $149,500

• 100% Remote position, with a virtual office
• Health Care Plan (Medical, Dental & Vision)
• Retirement Plan (401k, IRA)
• Life Insurance (Basic, Voluntary & AD&D)
• Flexible Paid Time Off (Vacation, Sick & Holidays)
• Family Leave (Maternity, Paternity)
• Short Term & Long Term Disability
• Training & Development
• Wellness Resources