Senior Database Engineer

Netpace Inc.; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 130,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Netpace Inc. seeks an experienced Database Systems Platform Engineer/Administrator to design, manage, optimize, and secure enterprise database platforms across Redis, Oracle RDS, MongoDB, and related technologies. The role requires hands-on management of deployments in AWS and on‑premises, including high availability and automation.

You will work with EKS, Kubernetes, Terraform, Grafana, and CI/CD pipelines to support modern cloud-native environments and database performance tuning at scale.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience as Database Administrator / Database Systems Administrator.
• Hands-on experience with production-grade Redis, MongoDB, and Oracle databases.
• Strong troubleshooting, documentation, and communication skills.

Responsibilities

• Administer Redis, MongoDB, and Oracle databases in production.
• Design clustered, replica sets, sharding, and partitioning.
• Deploy databases across on-premises, cloud, and Atlas environments.
• Perform performance tuning and query optimization for throughput and latency.
• Analyze queries, indexes, schemas, and partitions for optimization.
• Manage database objects, stored procedures, and schema changes.
• Ensure data integrity, backups, recovery, and DR readiness.
• Monitor health, capacity, and performance with standard tools.
• Enforce security best practices, access controls, and encryption.
• Collaborate with application, DevOps, and infra teams to align needs.
• Troubleshoot and resolve issues in HA environments.
• Automate provisioning and maintenance tasks with IaC.

Skills

Redis

MongoDB

Oracle

AWS

Kubernetes

Terraform

Grafana

CI/CD

Bash

Python

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related field

Tools

Kubernetes

Grafana

MongoDB Atlas

Oracle RAC

Job description

Job Title: Senior Database Systems Engineer/Administrator (Redis/MongoDB/ Oracle RDS)

Duration: 12+ months with potential extensions

Job Summary:

We are seeking an experienced Database Systems Platform Engineer/Administrator to design, manage, optimize, and secure enterprise database platforms across Redis , Oracle Relational databases , Goldengate replication and MongoDB. The ideal candidate will have working knowledge of AWS environment including EKS, Kubernetes, Terraform, Grafana . Must have hands‑on experience on installing, upgrading and patching database environments on AWS cloud deployments and on‑premises and performance tuning in high-availability, large-scale systems. This role also requires automation and Infrastructure as Code (IaC) expertise to support modern CI/CD-driven environments.

Key Responsibilities:

• Administer, maintain, and support Redis (Mem cached) , MongoDB (NoSQL) and Oracle databases in production environments. Must independently drive the project to its conclusion


• Design and manage clustered and distributed database architectures, including replica sets, sharding, and partitioning.


• Deploy and support databases across on-premises, cloud, and MongoDB Atlas environments.


• Perform database performance tuning and query optimization to improve throughput, latency, and reliability.


• Analyze and optimize queries, indexes, schemas, rows, columns, and partitions.


• Manage stored procedures, database objects, and schema changes.


• Ensure data integrity, availability, backup, recovery, and disaster recovery strategies.


• Monitor database health, capacity, and performance using industry-standard tools.


• Implement and enforce security best practices, access controls, encryption, and compliance standards.


• Collaborate with application, DevOps, and infrastructure teams to align database design with application needs.


• Troubleshoot and resolve database-related issues in high-availability environments.


• Automate database provisioning, configuration, and maintenance tasks.

Required Technical Skills & Expertise:

Database Technologies:

• Document-based data modeling (BSON/JSON)


• Schema design and flexibility


• Sharding, replication, and clustering


• MongoDB Query Language (MQL)


• Installation and configuring Oracle on RAC/RDS .


• Creating goldengate extracts, replicats between oracle databases on RDS/RAC

Performance & Optimization:

• Query optimization and execution plan analysis.


• Indexing strategies


• Database performance tuning


• Partitioning and data distribution strategies

Infrastructure & DevOps (Bonus):

• Scripting & Automation (Bash, Python, or similar)


• Infrastructure as Code (IaC) using Terraform.


• Experience deploying databases in Kubernetes environments.


• CI/CD pipelines and automation


• Version control using GitHub and GitHub Actions

Other Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or equivalent experience.


• 5+ years of experience as a Database Administrator / Database Systems Administrator.


• Proven experience supporting production, high-traffic database environments.


• Strong troubleshooting, documentation, and communication skills.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience with Redis ,Oracle, MongoDB (Enterprise & Atlas) in production environments.


• Cloud experience (AWS).


• Exposure to large-scale distributed systems and data platforms.