Senior SQL Server Reliability Engineer - 24x7, Remote

place; United States; Hybrid; USD 130,000 - 150,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

PTO

Insurance

401(k) match

Stock option grants

Employee stock purchase plan

Job summary

place is seeking a senior SQL Server engineer to transform a multi-terabyte, 24x7 production environment into a hardened, automated, and observable platform. You will partner with engineering, analytics, finance, and leadership to safeguard availability, recoverability, and performance across the acquired estate.

You will own backups, DR planning, and high availability using Always On, clustering, log shipping, and replication, while extending SSIS/SSRS and building runbooks and telemetry for

Qualifications

• 10+ years of production database engineering with 24x7 ownership.
• Proven ability to perform restores under pressure.
• Deep SQL Server 2016+ expertise including Always On and replication.
• Advanced T-SQL, indexing, and execution plan analysis.
• Hands-on AWS with RDS/EC2, and at least one on-prem-to-cloud migration.
• Automation fluency in PowerShell and/or Python with proactive communication.

Responsibilities

• Own availability, recoverability, and performance for all SQL Server platforms.
• Manage high availability features and run planned failover exercises.
• Lead incident response, DR planning, and post-incident reviews.
• Maintain SSIS/SSRS and develop new T-SQL, procedures, and SSIS as needed.
• Automate patching, maintenance, backups, and environment refreshes via scripts and IaC.
• Build telemetry, alerts, and runbooks; participate in on-call rotation.

Skills

SQL Server

Always On

Failover clustering

T-SQL

Performance optimization

AWS (RDS/EC2)

PowerShell

Python

Automation

Incident response

Tools

SSIS

SSRS

Infrastructure as Code

Job description

place is seeking a senior SQL Server engineer to transform a multi-terabyte, 24x7 production environment into a hardened, automated, and observable platform. You will partner with engineering, analytics, finance, and leadership to safeguard availability, recoverability, and performance across the acquired estate.

You will own backups, DR planning, and high availability using Always On, clustering, log shipping, and replication, while extending SSIS/SSRS and building runbooks and telemetry for