Senior Data Platform Reliability Engineer (Remote)

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

Benefits offered by this job

Medical insurance

Dental insurance

Vision insurance

401(k) plan

Unlimited PTO

Job summary

NinjaOne is seeking a Senior Database Reliability Engineer to own the data platform across relational, NoSQL, time-series, and warehouse systems. You will shape architecture, improve tooling, and enable fast product delivery while maintaining high availability and security across global services.

You will collaborate with Architecture and Engineering on data-centric product decisions, design scalable schemas, and drive migrations and upgrades with minimal disruption.

Qualifications

• 8+ years in database engineering/administration, with 3+ years across multiple DB technologies.
• Experience influencing architecture or product decisions involving data.
• Deep expertise in at least one relational engine plus fluency in NoSQL caching.
• Experience with time-series stores and data warehouse platforms (Redshift, Snowflake, BigQuery).
• Strong cloud-native experience (AWS preferred) including IAM, encryption, networking for data services.

Responsibilities

• Own architecture and lifecycle decisions for the data domain with Architecture.
• Design, operate, and evolve database platforms across relational, time-series, and data warehouse systems.
• Partner with Architecture on data-touch decisions early in design process.
• Debug and resolve tooling, provisioning, and data infra issues to reduce friction.
• Expand technology footprint of the data platform by evaluating new databases and storage technologies.
• Maintain health of database environments: performance, availability, DR, backup/retention, security.

Skills

Database engineering

Architecture influence

Relational + NoSQL

Cloud-native (AWS)

Scripting/Automation

CI/CD (Terraform)

Tools

PostgreSQL

AWS RDS/Aurora

Kubernetes

Terraform

CloudFormation

Job description

NinjaOne is seeking a Senior Database Reliability Engineer to own the data platform across relational, NoSQL, time-series, and warehouse systems. You will shape architecture, improve tooling, and enable fast product delivery while maintaining high availability and security across global services.

You will collaborate with Architecture and Engineering on data-centric product decisions, design scalable schemas, and drive migrations and upgrades with minimal disruption.