Senior PostgreSQL DB Engineer – AWS, Scale & Migrations

The Intersect Group; Mesa, Northern (AZ, KY); Hybrid; USD 140,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

The Intersect Group is recruiting a Senior Database Engineer for a hybrid role in Mesa, AZ. You will own the design, performance, and integrity of a high-volume relational data platform powering core transactional products.

This hands-on position leads schema architecture, migrations, and data durability across AWS-based environments while collaborating with software, DevOps, and platform engineering teams.

Qualifications

• 6+ years of production experience in database engineering or platform administration, with PostgreSQL expertise.
• Deep knowledge of PostgreSQL internals, query plans, partitioning, and locking.
• Experience with cloud DB platforms (AWS Aurora PostgreSQL/RDS) and IaC tools.

Responsibilities

• Architect relational schemas, index strategies, and versioned reference data.
• Design zero-downtime migrations and backward-compatible changes with CI/CD.
• Profile and tune high-volume OLTP workloads on AWS Aurora PostgreSQL.
• Diagnose latency, deadlocks, and performance regressions with budgets.
• Modernize data access with domain microservices and robust backup/recovery.

Skills

PostgreSQL

SQL

Performance tuning

Automation scripting

Cloud environments (AWS)

CI/CD concepts

Data security/compliance

Tools

Terraform

CloudFormation

Flyway

Liquibase

Sqitch

Aurora PostgreSQL

RDS

Job description

The Intersect Group is recruiting a Senior Database Engineer for a hybrid role in Mesa, AZ. You will own the design, performance, and integrity of a high-volume relational data platform powering core transactional products.

This hands-on position leads schema architecture, migrations, and data durability across AWS-based environments while collaborating with software, DevOps, and platform engineering teams.