Remote Senior Data Platform Reliability Engineer

NinjaOne; Georgia; Hybrid; USD 160,000 - 210,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, and vision insurance

401(k) plan

Unlimited PTO

Hybrid remote work

Job summary

NinjaOne is seeking a Senior Database Reliability Engineer to own the data platform across relational, NoSQL, time-series, and warehouse systems. You’ll influence architecture and product decisions, improve tooling, and enable engineers to move fast while maintaining security and governance for millions of endpoints.

You will collaborate with Architecture to expand the data footprint, manage health, performance, DR, and CI/CD integration, and guide migrations with minimal disruption.

Qualifications

• 8+ years in database engineering/administration, including 3+ years across multiple databases in production.
• Influence architecture or product decisions involving data, not solely operating systems.
• Deep expertise in at least one relational engine plus fluency in NoSQL caching.
• Experience with time-series data stores and data warehouse platforms (Redshift, Snowflake, BigQuery).

Responsibilities

• Own architectural and lifecycle decisions for the data domain with Architecture.
• Design, operate, and evolve database platforms across relational, time-series, and warehouse tech.
• Collaborate on data touchpoints early in product design, including schema and access patterns.
• Debug and improve database tooling, provisioning, and developer data infrastructure.
• Evaluate and onboard new database/storage technologies as product needs evolve.
• Maintain health of database environments: performance, availability, DR, backups, security.
• Optimize performance, indexing, queries, and storage/compute config across stores.
• Automate provisioning, backups, lifecycle mgmt; integrate changes into CI/CD.
• Lead migrations, upgrades, and tech transitions with minimal disruption.
• Maintain audit logs, schema versioning, and change tracking for regulatory traceability.
• Document architecture decisions and platform standards for technical audiences.

Skills

Database engineering

Architecture influence

Relational & NoSQL

Time-series stores

Cloud experience AWS

Infrastructure as code

Debugging & troubleshooting

Communication skills

Tools

Terraform

CloudFormation

Postgres

Redshift

Snowflake

BigQuery

Kubernetes

Job description

NinjaOne is seeking a Senior Database Reliability Engineer to own the data platform across relational, NoSQL, time-series, and warehouse systems. You’ll influence architecture and product decisions, improve tooling, and enable engineers to move fast while maintaining security and governance for millions of endpoints.

You will collaborate with Architecture to expand the data footprint, manage health, performance, DR, and CI/CD integration, and guide migrations with minimal disruption.