Senior Database Platform Engineer

Balyasny Asset Management L.P.; New York (NY); On-site; USD 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

Balyasny Asset Management L.P. is looking for a Senior Database Platform Engineer to join their Database Engineering team in New York City. The role focuses on designing, building, and operating the database platform with a commitment to declarative, state-based deployments.

The ideal candidate will have deep expertise in SQL Server and Snowflake, proficiency with Terraform, and experience in CI/CD processes. Responsibilities include designing workloads, implementing high-availability solutions, and driving best practices in database deployments.

Qualifications

• Deep expertise in SQL Server with performance tuning and security hardening.
• Strong hands-on experience with Snowflake for data modelling and optimization.
• Proficiency in Terraform for database infrastructure provisioning.

Responsibilities

• Design and operate SQL Server and Snowflake workloads.
• Implement high-availability solutions across SQL Server and Snowflake.
• Drive declarative database deployment practices.

Skills

Expertise in SQL Server

Experience with Snowflake

Familiarity with Terraform

PowerShell and/or Python skills

CI/CD processes and GitOps workflows

Tools

Flyway

Liquibase

Grafana

Prometheus

Job description

Our Database Engineering team is transforming how Balyasny Asset Management delivers database services through a standardized platform built on declarative, code-defined provisioning, automated lifecycle management, and self-healing operations across SQL Server, Snowflake, and Terraform-managed infrastructure. Declarative, state-based database management is at the core of everything we build.

Role Overview

We're seeking a Senior Database Platform Engineer based in New York City to help design, build, and operate our database platform. A deep commitment to declarative, state-based deployments is fundamental to this role. We treat database infrastructure and schema as code, with all changes version-controlled and automatically promoted through environments. The engineer will create scalable, automated solutions that minimize manual intervention while enforcing safety and consistency across SQL Server and Snowflake environments.

Key Responsibilities

• Design and operate SQL Server and Snowflake workloads, developing automated provisioning and lifecycle management solutions.
• Implement high-availability solutions and declarative management across SQL Server and Snowflake.
• Own and drive declarative, state-based database deployment practices as a first-class engineering discipline. All schema changes must be version-controlled, auditable, repeatable, and automatically applied using Flyway, Liquibase, or Atlas.
• Provision and manage database infrastructure using Terraform, ensuring structured, repeatable, and version-controlled deployments.
• Develop GitOps workflows and observability pipelines for comprehensive monitoring using OpenTelemetry, Loki, Prometheus, and Grafana.
• Create migration tools for transitioning from VMs and managed services to our platform.
• Build self-service interfaces and implement security controls within database environments.

Required Skills & Experience

• Deep expertise in SQL Server. Performance tuning, indexing strategies, Always On AG, replication, and security hardening.
• Strong hands-on experience with Snowflake. Data modelling, Snowpipe, dynamic tables, RBAC, and cost optimisation.
• Proficiency with Terraform for database infrastructure provisioning and lifecycle management.
• Proven, hands-on experience with declarative and state-based database deployments. Production experience with Flyway, Liquibase, or Atlas.
• Strong understanding of schema-as-code principles: versioned migrations, idempotent scripts, environment promotion, and drift detection.
• Strong PowerShell and/or Python skills for automation and problem-solving; Go experience is a plus.
• Proficiency with CI/CD processes and GitOps workflows integrating database deployments into DevOps pipelines.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with PostgreSQL. Administration, performance tuning, and replication; the team operates across multiple database technologies and cross-skilling is actively encouraged.
• Familiarity with Redis. Operational experience with caching, pub/sub, and persistence patterns.
• Exposure to Kubernetes. Pods, deployments, stateful sets, and operators; the team is expanding its container orchestration footprint and this will become increasingly relevant.
• Build data lakehouse solutions (Apache Iceberg) and implement query federation capabilities (Trino).
• Familiarity with Apache Airflow and dbt for orchestration and data transformation.
• Experience with analytical databases like ClickHouse.
• Competence with monitoring solutions: Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry, and Loki.
• Ability to leverage reporting tools such as PowerBI or Tableau for enhanced data insights.

What Sets You Apart

• A genuine belief that all database changes should be declarative, versioned, and automated, and a track record of enforcing this in practice.
• Platform-oriented thinking with a cloud-native engineering mindset.
• Full-stack capabilities from database infrastructure to application interfaces.
• Enthusiasm for transforming traditional database administration into modern, automated approaches.
• Adaptability and eagerness to learn new technologies and methodologies.