Senior PostgreSQL Engineer — High-Volume Data Platform

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

Job summary

Verra Mobility Corporation seeks an experienced Senior Database Engineer to own the design, performance, and reliability of our relational data platform on AWS. This hands-on, multi-tenant role focuses on zero-downtime schema changes, durable data storage, and scalable query performance across dozens of microservices.

The role partners with software, platform, QE, and information security teams to implement migrations as code, configure backups and DR, optimize PostgreSQL at scale, and ensure

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in CS, Engineering, or related field or equivalent experience.
• 6+ years of database or data platform engineering experience.
• 3+ years of production PostgreSQL experience.
• AWS cloud experience with Aurora PostgreSQL or RDS.
• Experience with CI/CD-based database migrations and zero-downtime patterns.

Responsibilities

• Own relational schema design, normalization choices, and integrity constraints.
• Lead zero-downtime migrations and track migration history across environments.
• Profile, tune, and optimize high-volume OLTP workloads and indexing.
• Ensure backup, DR, and data observability with defined SLIs.
• Collaborate with software, security, and platform teams to enforce data access patterns.

Skills

PostgreSQL at scale

SQL performance tuning

CI/CD migrations

AWS cloud

Database observability

Data security/compliance

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/Engineering or equivalent

Tools

Flyway

Liquibase

Terraform

CloudWatch

Datadog

Job description

Verra Mobility Corporation seeks an experienced Senior Database Engineer to own the design, performance, and reliability of our relational data platform on AWS. This hands-on, multi-tenant role focuses on zero-downtime schema changes, durable data storage, and scalable query performance across dozens of microservices.

The role partners with software, platform, QE, and information security teams to implement migrations as code, configure backups and DR, optimize PostgreSQL at scale, and ensure