Senior Database Reliability Engineer II — Scale & Optimize

ninjatrader; United States; On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

NinjaTrader is seeking a Sr. Database Reliability Engineer II to architect, evolve, and optimize the data platform powering our core trading applications.

You will work closely with software engineers and platform teams to enhance scalability, resilience, and developer productivity. Ideal candidates have spent their career building production software and become the database expert responsible for performance bottlenecks, scalable schemas, and reliable applications.

Qualifications

• Proven experience designing high-volume transactional databases.
• Strong SQL optimization and query tuning skills.
• Expertise in data modeling for scalable data platforms.

Responsibilities

• Design and evolve MySQL schemas for high-volume workloads.
• Drive improvements to data platform architecture and migrations.
• Analyze and optimize queries, indexes, and execution plans.
• Develop tooling to improve persistence and data access across teams.

Skills

MySQL

PostgreSQL

SQL optimization

Data modeling

Scalability

Tools

Cloud SQL

Cloud Monitoring

Cloud Logging

GCP tooling

Job description

NinjaTrader is seeking a Sr. Database Reliability Engineer II to architect, evolve, and optimize the data platform powering our core trading applications.

You will work closely with software engineers and platform teams to enhance scalability, resilience, and developer productivity. Ideal candidates have spent their career building production software and become the database expert responsible for performance bottlenecks, scalable schemas, and reliable applications.