Lead Data Platform & Database Engineer - Remote

TrustEngine; United States; Remote; USD 171,000 - 209,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health Care Plan (Medical, Dental &amp

Retirement Plan (401k, IRA)

Life Insurance

Flexible Paid Time Off

Family Leave

Disability Insurance

Training & Development

Wellness Resources

100% Remote

Job summary

TrustEngine is seeking a Lead Data Platform & Database Engineer to own the database estate end-to-end. You will assess what exists, execute a time-critical OS upgrade, and set direction and standards to mature the environment for customers and auditors.

The role covers two stacks: C#/.NET on SQL Server and TypeScript/JS on MySQL in AWS, with SQL Server on EC2 and on-premises. You will lead admin, upgrades, HA, and governance across production estates.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of database or data platform experience.
• Experience owning production database estates end-to-end and improving them for customers/auditors.
• Experience with SQL Server on AWS EC2 or on-premises, OS-level work under production instances.
• Knowledge of high availability (Always On) and failover clustering.

Responsibilities

• Own Microsoft SQL Server administration end-to-end.
• Perform full SQL Server installation and configuration on servers you manage (Windows Server on EC2 or on-premises).
• Manage Windows Server administration, including OS upgrades and migrations.
• Document and perform SQL Server upgrades with versioning details.
• Ensure SQL Server high availability and failover clustering.
• Administer MySQL and AWS services (EC2, RDS, S3, IAM, CloudWatch).
• Apply AI tooling to daily work (e.g., Claude).
• Drive end-to-end ownership of the production database estate and set data standards across teams.

Skills

SQL Server administration

Windows Server administration

End-to-end database ownership

AWS experience

AI proficiency

Tools

Snowflake

Rivery

dbt

Metabase

QuickSight

S3

Job description

TrustEngine is seeking a Lead Data Platform & Database Engineer to own the database estate end-to-end. You will assess what exists, execute a time-critical OS upgrade, and set direction and standards to mature the environment for customers and auditors.

The role covers two stacks: C#/.NET on SQL Server and TypeScript/JS on MySQL in AWS, with SQL Server on EC2 and on-premises. You will lead admin, upgrades, HA, and governance across production estates.