Full time

Fruition Executive Search; San Diego (CA); On-site; USD 140,000 - 210,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

3 weeks PTO

10+ Holidays

Medical/dental coverage

STD

LTD

Life Insurance

AD&D

401k up to 4% match

Profit sharing

Job summary

Fruition Executive Search seeks a senior database engineer to own and optimize critical data architectures for a multi-node environment in the San Diego area. You will design relational and NoSQL schemas, ensure high availability, and drive performance tuning and disaster-recovery planning.

Embedded in an Agile team, you'll coordinate with systems, software, test, and information assurance engineers. Active TS/SCI with Full Scope Poly through MD is required, with quarterly travel to MD as needed.

Qualifications

• 10+ years as a DBA on similar-scope programs.
• Exposure to relational and NoSQL engines (PostgreSQL, MongoDB, Cassandra).
• Java as a language baseline.
• Technical bachelor's, or 4 years additional DBA experience in lieu.

Responsibilities

• Relational and non-relational data architecture — design, build, and document.
• Data movement at scale: replication across distributed nodes, concurrent access, failover and high-availability engineering.
• Performance work: tuning, capacity and performance planning, issue investigation through resolution.
• Backup, recovery, and user administration.
• Schema translation — turning requirements and raw data into usable structures via ad hoc queries, scripts, and macros.
• Requirements analysis, risk assessment, and alternatives analysis for system-level problems.
• Long- and short-term database requirements for admin and design.

Skills

DBA experience

Relational & NoSQL

Java

Education

Bachelor's degree in a technical field

Tools

PostgreSQL

MongoDB

Cassandra

Job description

San Diego, United States | Posted on 10/13/2026

The environment:Amission-critical, geographically distributed system serving the IntelligenceCommunity — one where interface, performance, and security tolerances are tightand non-negotiable. You'll be a database engineering voice on a complexprogram, not a ticket-taker.

What you'll own:

• Relational and non-relational data architecture —design, build, and document
• Data movement at scale: replication acrossdistributed nodes, concurrent access, failover and high-availabilityengineering
• Performance work: tuning, capacity and performanceplanning, issue investigation through resolution
• Backup, recovery, and user administration
• Schema translation — turning requirements and rawdata into usable structures via ad hoc queries, scripts, and macros
• Requirements analysis, risk assessment, andalternatives analysis for system-level problems
• Long- and short-term database requirements for adminand design

Requirements

How you'll work:Embeddedin an Agile team, interfacing with systems, software, test, and informationassurance engineers. You'll contribute to Program Increment Planning andcollaborate daily with technical peers and customer POCs.

Clearance (hard gate):ActiveTS/SCI with Full Scope Polygraph through the MD customer. Last poly within 6years. No CCAs.

Experience bar:

• 10+ years as a DBA on similar-scope programs
• Exposure to relational and NoSQL engines (PostgreSQL,MongoDB, Cassandra)
• Java as a language baseline
• Technical bachelor's, or 4 years additional DBAexperience in lieu

Nice to have:SAFemethodology or Agile team experience; Cassandra; MongoDB.

Sometravel to MD for quarterly planning, if not local.

Comprehensive benefit package thatincludes 3 weeks paid time off, 10+ Paid Holidays, medical/dental coverage, STD,LTD, Life Insurance, AD&D, 401k with up to 4% match, and end of year profitsharing.

• 3 weeks paid time off
• 10+ Paid Holidays
• medical/dental coverage
• STD
• LTD
• Life Insurance
• AD&D
• 401k with up to 4% match
• end of year profitsharing

Fruition Executive Search is an Equal Opportunity Employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race or ethnicity, religion, sex, national origin, age, veteran disability or genetic information or any other reason prohibited by law in employment.