Senior Database Engineer — Hybrid, AWS & Scalable Data

TEKsystems; Foster City (CA); Hybrid; USD 96,000 - 110,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical/dental/vision

401(k) retirement

Life Insurance

Disability

HSA

Transportation benefits

Employee Assistance Program

PTO / Vacation

Job summary

TEKsystems in Foster City, CA is seeking a Database Engineer to design, build, and operate scalable data stores powering applications and analytics. You will partner with application and data teams to shape schemas, tune performance, and automate operations using AWS and infrastructure-as-code.

In this role you will monitor performance, implement security controls, manage AWS databases (RDS/Aurora/Redshift), perform capacity planning, and contribute to runbooks and documentation.

Responsibilities

• Design and develop efficient, scalable database solutions aligned to business requirements.
• Install, configure, and upgrade database software and related tooling.
• Monitor performance and optimize queries, indexes, and schemas for reliability and speed.
• Implement and maintain database security controls to protect sensitive data.
• Collaborate with application developers to optimize schema designs and SQL.
• Troubleshoot incidents and provide timely resolution across environments.
• Develop and maintain documentation for architecture, configuration, and runbooks.
• Perform capacity planning and recommend infrastructure improvements.
• Manage and support AWS database infrastructure (e.g., RDS/Aurora/Redshift).
• Stay current on emerging database technologies, patterns, and best practices.

Skills

Database design

SQL performance tuning

Security controls

Schema optimization

Capacity planning

Tools

MySQL

PostgreSQL

AWS

Terraform

Python

CI/CD

Job description

TEKsystems in Foster City, CA is seeking a Database Engineer to design, build, and operate scalable data stores powering applications and analytics. You will partner with application and data teams to shape schemas, tune performance, and automate operations using AWS and infrastructure-as-code.

In this role you will monitor performance, implement security controls, manage AWS databases (RDS/Aurora/Redshift), perform capacity planning, and contribute to runbooks and documentation.