Senior Data Platform Reliability Engineer - Remote

NinjaOne; North Carolina; Hybrid; USD 160,000 - 210,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, vision insurance

401(k) plan

Unlimited PTO

Hybrid remote options

Job summary

NinjaOne seeks a Senior Database Reliability Engineer to own the data platform across relational, NoSQL, time‑series, and warehouse technologies, ensuring reliability and performance. You’ll influence architectural decisions and improve tooling, provisioning, and developer experience across engineering teams.

Based in the USA, we offer flexible remote work with optional hybrid options in Austin, TX or Tampa, FL. Strong data‑engineering mindset and cloud experience are essential.

Qualifications

• 8+ years in database engineering/administration, including 3+ years operating more than one database technology in production.
• Demonstrated experience influencing architecture or product decisions involving data — not solely operating systems designed by others.
• Deep expertise in at least one relational engine plus working fluency in NoSQL caching.
• Experience with time‑series data stores and data warehouse platforms (Redshift, Snowflake, BigQuery, or similar)
• Strong cloud‑native experience (AWS preferred) — RDS/Aurora, managed NoSQL, IAM, encryption, networking for data services
• Proficiency in scripting/automation and infrastructure‑as‑code (Terraform, CloudFormation)
• Track record of debugging developer‑facing environment issues, not just production incidents
• Strong troubleshooting using logs, metrics, and query analysis across varied storage engines
• Excellent written and verbal communication — able to represent the data domain in cross‑functional architecture discussions

Responsibilities

• Own architectural and lifecycle decisions for the data domain with Architecture as a collaborator.
• Design, operate, and evolve database platforms across relational, time-series, and warehouse stores.
• Partner with Architecture on data‑touching product decisions including schema design and access patterns.
• Debug and resolve environment and developer‑experience issues across database tooling and data infra.
• Collaborate on expanding the technology footprint of the data platform with new technologies
• Maintain overall health of database environments: performance, availability, disaster recovery, backup/retention and security
• Optimize performance, indexing, query plans, and storage/compute configuration across stores
• Automate provisioning, backup, and lifecycle management; integrate changes into CI/CD
• Lead migrations, version upgrades, and tech transitions with minimal disruption
• Maintain audit logs, schema versioning, and change tracking for regulatory traceability
• Document architecture decisions, runbooks, and platform standards for technical and non‑technical audiences

Skills

Relational database expertise

NoSQL caching

Time-series data stores

Cloud-native AWS

Scripting/Automation

Infrastructure as code

Tools

PostgreSQL

Redshift

Snowflake

BigQuery

Terraform

CloudFormation

Kubernetes

Job description

NinjaOne seeks a Senior Database Reliability Engineer to own the data platform across relational, NoSQL, time‑series, and warehouse technologies, ensuring reliability and performance. You’ll influence architectural decisions and improve tooling, provisioning, and developer experience across engineering teams.

Based in the USA, we offer flexible remote work with optional hybrid options in Austin, TX or Tampa, FL. Strong data‑engineering mindset and cloud experience are essential.