Hybrid Senior Database Engineer - Scale Data for Education

Mathnasium - The Math Learning Center; Los Angeles (CA); Hybrid; USD 120,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible hybrid schedule

Comprehensive benefits

401(k) with matching

Bonus pay

Employee discount

Job summary

Mathnasium HQ in Los Angeles is seeking a Senior Database Engineer to maintain and optimize our data infrastructure, support our franchise network, and scale our data platforms as the company grows. This full-time role combines technical challenge with meaningful impact in a mission-driven educational organization.

You will design and manage SQL Server and cloud databases, drive performance tuning, implement data governance, and collaborate with Engineering and FP&A.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field.
• 5+ years of hands-on Microsoft SQL Server administration and optimization.
• Proficiency with cloud database platforms (AWS RDS, Aurora PostgreSQL).
• Experience with data warehousing tools and CI/CD in Agile environments.
• Strong problem-solving and clear communication in a hybrid setting.

Responsibilities

• Design, implement, and maintain high-performance SQL Server and cloud database systems.
• Optimize query performance, capacity planning, and scalability.
• Provide production support for urgent database issues and root cause analysis.
• Monitor health, resolve bottlenecks, and ensure reliability.
• Develop data governance, security policies, and compliance standards.
• Lead data integration, migration, and ETL pipeline development.
• Architect enterprise data warehouse and data lake solutions.
• Collaborate with Engineering, FP&A, and cross-functional teams.
• Ensure backup, disaster recovery planning, and reliability.
• Evaluate and adopt new database technologies and cloud solutions.
• Collaborate on DB changes, releases, version control, and CI/CD.

Skills

MS SQL Server administration

T-SQL scripting

Database architecture

Performance tuning

Cloud databases

CI/CD

Agile

Problem solving

Hybrid work

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

AWS RDS

Aurora PostgreSQL

Amazon Redshift

DynamoDB

Job description

Mathnasium HQ in Los Angeles is seeking a Senior Database Engineer to maintain and optimize our data infrastructure, support our franchise network, and scale our data platforms as the company grows. This full-time role combines technical challenge with meaningful impact in a mission-driven educational organization.

You will design and manage SQL Server and cloud databases, drive performance tuning, implement data governance, and collaborate with Engineering and FP&A.