Remote Senior Data Platform Reliability Engineer

NinjaOne; Maine; Remote; USD 160,000 - 210,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, and vision insurance

401(k) plan

Unlimited PTO

Hybrid remote options

Job summary

NinjaOne is seeking a Senior Database Reliability Engineer to own the data platform across relational, NoSQL, caching, time-series, and warehouse technologies. You’ll influence architecture, improve tooling, and enable engineering teams to move fast with reliable data infrastructure.

You will design and operate high-availability database systems in AWS, work across multiple storage engines, and drive changes from architecture to production while ensuring security and regulatory traceability.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of database engineering/administration experience.
• Experience influencing architecture or product decisions about data.
• Deep expertise in at least one relational engine and NoSQL caching.
• Experience with time-series stores and data warehouse platforms (Redshift, Snowflake, BigQuery, or similar).
• Strong cloud-native experience (AWS).

Responsibilities

• Own architectural and lifecycle decisions for the data domain.
• Design, operate, and evolve database platforms across multiple technologies.
• Partner with Architecture on data-touching product decisions.
• Debug and resolve environment and developer-experience issues across database tooling.
• Collaborate with Architecture on expanding the data platform technology footprint.
• Maintain overall health of database environments across performance, availability, DR, backup, and security.
• Optimize performance, indexing, and storage configurations across stores.
• Automate provisioning, backup, and lifecycle management; CI/CD integration.
• Lead migrations, version upgrades, and tech transitions with minimal disruption.
• Maintain audit logs, schema versioning, and change tracking for regulatory traceability.
• Document architecture decisions and runbooks for technical audiences.

Skills

Database engineering

Architecture influence

Relational + NoSQL

Cloud-native AWS

Scripting & IaC

Troubleshooting

Communication

Tools

Terraform

CloudFormation

Kubernetes

Fargate

Redshift

Snowflake

BigQuery

Job description

NinjaOne is seeking a Senior Database Reliability Engineer to own the data platform across relational, NoSQL, caching, time-series, and warehouse technologies. You’ll influence architecture, improve tooling, and enable engineering teams to move fast with reliable data infrastructure.

You will design and operate high-availability database systems in AWS, work across multiple storage engines, and drive changes from architecture to production while ensuring security and regulatory traceability.