Senior MongoDB & SQL Database Engineer (Hybrid)

Netpace Inc; Walnut Creek (CA); Hybrid; USD 130,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Netpace Inc in Walnut Creek, CA is seeking a Senior Database Systems Engineer/Administrator to own the design, deployment, and optimization of MongoDB and SQL databases across on‑premises and Atlas environments. You will lead clustered deployments and ensure high availability with scalable architectures.

Responsibilities include performance tuning, query optimization, data integrity, security enforcement, and collaboration with DevOps for CI/CD pipelines.

Qualifications

• Must have 5+ years of experience as a Database Administrator / Database Systems Administrator.
• Experience supporting production, high-traffic database environments.
• Strong troubleshooting, documentation, and communication skills.

Responsibilities

• Administer, maintain, and support MongoDB (NoSQL) and SQL databases in production environments.
• 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.

Skills

DBA

Cloud deployments

Automation

CI/CD

Security best practices

Performance tuning

Query optimization

Kubernetes

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related

Tools

Terraform

GitHub Actions

Kubernetes

Docker

Python

Bash

Job description

Netpace Inc in Walnut Creek, CA is seeking a Senior Database Systems Engineer/Administrator to own the design, deployment, and optimization of MongoDB and SQL databases across on‑premises and Atlas environments. You will lead clustered deployments and ensure high availability with scalable architectures.

Responsibilities include performance tuning, query optimization, data integrity, security enforcement, and collaboration with DevOps for CI/CD pipelines.