Senior PostgreSQL & Data Platform Engineer

Verra Mobility Corporation; Mesa, Northern (AZ, KY); Hybrid; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Verra Mobility is seeking an experienced Senior Database Engineer to own the relational data platform behind mobility products. You will design schemas, ensure zero-downtime migrations, and optimize high-volume OLTP workloads on AWS.

In this senior IC role, you will partner with software engineers, DevOps, and security to deliver scalable, reliable data access across hundreds of microservices, while enforcing data integrity and durable recoverability.

Qualifications

• 6+ years in database engineering or data platform engineering.
• 3+ years with PostgreSQL at production scale.
• Experience with managed cloud databases (Aurora PostgreSQL or RDS).
• Hands-on schema migration tooling integrated with CI/CD.

Responsibilities

• Own the relational schema for the core operational platform and ensure data integrity.
• Author and review migrations with zero-downtime patterns and backwards compatibility.
• Maintain migration history and detect drift across environments.
• Lead data architecture and platform modernization, separating transactional from analytical workloads.

Skills

PostgreSQL

SQL optimization

AWS

Database migrations

CI/CD tooling

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related

Tools

Flyway

Liquibase

Alembic

Sqitch

Job description

Verra Mobility is seeking an experienced Senior Database Engineer to own the relational data platform behind mobility products. You will design schemas, ensure zero-downtime migrations, and optimize high-volume OLTP workloads on AWS.

In this senior IC role, you will partner with software engineers, DevOps, and security to deliver scalable, reliable data access across hundreds of microservices, while enforcing data integrity and durable recoverability.