Senior Data Platform Reliability Engineer — Remote

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

Benefits offered by this job

Medical insurance

Dental insurance

Vision insurance

401(k) plan

Unlimited PTO

Hybrid remote

Job summary

NinjaOne is seeking a Senior Database Reliability Engineer to own data platform reliability, performance, and architecture across relational, NoSQL, time-series, and warehouse systems. You’ll influence architectural decisions and partner with teams to shape data storage, movement, and consumption at scale.

You will drive health of database environments, improve tooling, and enable engineers to move fast with robust data infrastructure, supporting millions of endpoints and enterprise workloads.

Qualifications

• 8+ years in database engineering/administration with multi-DB production experience
• Influence 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) including RDS/Aurora and data services
• Proficiency in scripting/automation and infrastructure-as-code (Terraform, CloudFormation)
• Track record debugging developer-facing environment issues and CI/CD data tooling
• Excellent written and verbal communication for cross-functional architecture discussions

Responsibilities

• Own architectural and lifecycle decisions for the data domain with Architecture
• Design, operate, and evolve database platforms across relational, time-series, and warehouses
• Collaborate on product decisions touching data—schema design and scalability
• Debug environment and developer-experience issues across tooling and data infra
• Expand technology footprint by evaluating and onboarding new database technologies
• Maintain health of database environments: performance, availability, DR, backup and security
• Optimize performance, indexing, and storage across heterogeneous stores
• Automate provisioning, backup, and lifecycle management; CI/CD integration
• Lead migrations, upgrades, and technology transitions with minimal disruption
• Maintain audit logs, schema versioning, and change tracking for regulatory needs
• Document architecture decisions and platform standards

Skills

Data architecture

Platform engineering

Cloud-native

Scripting/automation

Troubleshooting

Communication

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science

Tools

Terraform

CloudFormation

PostgreSQL

Redis

Redshift

Job description

NinjaOne is seeking a Senior Database Reliability Engineer to own data platform reliability, performance, and architecture across relational, NoSQL, time-series, and warehouse systems. You’ll influence architectural decisions and partner with teams to shape data storage, movement, and consumption at scale.

You will drive health of database environments, improve tooling, and enable engineers to move fast with robust data infrastructure, supporting millions of endpoints and enterprise workloads.