Sr Database Engineer

PORCH INDIA PRIVATE LIMITED; United States; Remote; USD 19,000 - 38,000; Full time

Job summary

Porch India Private Limited is seeking a senior data platform professional to design and operate database platforms and data architectures across cloud environments. You will collaborate with software, systems, DevOps, analytics, and data science to improve reliability, security, performance, and cost efficiency of production data systems.

The role also contributes to modernization, migration, and continuity planning, with a focus on disaster recovery and business continuity.

Qualifications

• Senior-level experience designing, implementing, and managing database platforms and data architectures.
• Ability to operate and optimize production database systems.
• Experience collaborating with software, systems, and DevOps engineers as well as analytics or data science teams.
• Sound judgment across security, reliability, performance efficiency, and cost management.
• Ability to contribute to architecture decisions and longer-term technology planning.

Responsibilities

• Design and implement data architectures and computing platforms with engineering and business partners.
• Guide platform decisions to balance operational reliability, security, performance, and cost.
• Contribute to technology roadmaps and improvements to information security and data platforms.
• Support strategic database migrations and modernization initiatives.
• Own day-to-day production database operations, including tuning and optimization.
• Contribute to disaster recovery and business continuity planning.

Job description

Role overview

Design and operate database platforms and data architectures across cloud environments. You will work with software, systems, DevOps, analytics, business, and data science teams to improve the reliability, security, performance, and cost efficiency of production data systems. The position also contributes to modernization, migration, and continuity planning.

Responsibilities

• Design and implement data architectures and computing platforms with engineering and business partners.
• Guide platform decisions to balance operational reliability, security, performance, and cost.
• Contribute to technology roadmaps and improvements to information security and data platforms.
• Support strategic database migrations and modernization initiatives.
• Own day-to-day production database operations, including tuning and optimization.
• Contribute to disaster recovery and business continuity planning.

Requirements

• Senior-level experience designing, implementing, and managing database platforms and data architectures.
• Ability to operate and optimize production database systems.
• Experience collaborating with software, systems, and DevOps engineers as well as analytics or data science teams.
• Sound judgment across security, reliability, performance efficiency, and cost management.
• Ability to contribute to architecture decisions and longer-term technology planning.

Benefits and work setup

• Remote position based in India.