Sr. Engineer, Database

Verint; United States; Remote; USD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player is seeking a Senior Database Engineer to lead the design and operations of cloud-based database solutions. This role involves working closely with a global team to enhance database performance, security, and reliability while mentoring junior engineers. The ideal candidate will have extensive experience with PostgreSQL and a passion for optimizing database systems. Join a dynamic team that values innovation and collaboration, where your contributions will directly impact customer experience and operational efficiency. If you're ready to take on exciting challenges in a fast-paced environment, this opportunity could be your next career move.

Qualifications

• 5+ years experience in RDBMS systems design and administration.
• Expertise in PostgreSQL and disaster recovery for critical applications.
• Ability to manage multiple projects with strong organizational skills.

Responsibilities

• Lead design and operations of PostgreSQL databases and ETLs.
• Ensure database security, integrity, and performance through monitoring.
• Mentor junior team members and communicate risks to management.

Skills

PostgreSQL database architecture

Project leadership

Database query optimization

ETL and data warehouse tools

Automation tools and scripting

Organizational skills

Time management

Performance troubleshooting

Clean code writing

Disaster recovery planning

Education

Bachelor’s degree in computer science

Tools

GitHub

Airflow

SSIS

Redshift

Docker

Kubernetes

AWS

Azure

GCP

Job description

At Verint, we believe customer engagement is the core of every global brand. Our mission is to help organizations elevate Customer Experience (CX) and increase workforce productivity by delivering CX Automation. We hire innovators with the passion, creativity, and drive to answer constantly shifting market challenges and deliver impactful results for our customers. Our commitment to attracting and retaining a talented, diverse, and engaged team creates a collaborative environment that openly celebrates all cultures and affords personal and professional growth opportunities. Learn more at www.verint.com.

Overview of Job Function:

Verint’s Senior Database Engineer is responsible for all aspects of database design, implementation, and operation. This highly skilled, hands-on Senior Database Engineer requires extensive proficiency involved in all aspects of the development and operations of cloud-based software solutions. The Senior Database Engineer monitors, analyzes, administers, tunes and develops databases and related application components while working closely with a global team of engineers to build robust solutions. The Senior Database Engineer provides recommendations to management as to process, technologies, or other improvements intended to benefit productivity, efficiency and/or quality of the solutions and leads the implementation and operations of new solutions.

Principal Duties and Essential Responsibilities:

1. Lead design, development, and operations of PostgreSQL and other databases
2. Design and develop database code for applications and ETLs
3. Ensure database security, integrity, performance, and availability through active monitoring
4. Recommend and lead changes required for system reliability and performance
5. Interface with multiple components and systems with ETLs and data transfer functions
6. Produce cost modeling of infrastructure and storage with proposals for savings
7. Communicate relevant risks and issues to team leads and management
8. Mentor and review work from more junior members of the team
9. Ensure the prioritization of scope (including defects) is understood
10. Support opportunities to address technical debt as part of a release
11. Support the design process and ensure it complies with product architecture
12. Support planning activities such as time and work estimates, dependencies, risk areas, and sequencing tasks

Minimum Requirements:

1. Bachelor’s degree in computer science, engineering or related field
2. 5 years experience in designing, monitoring, analyzing, and administrating RDBMS systems
3. Ability to manage multiple priorities and parallel projects with strong organizational, time management, and project leadership skills
4. Ability to lead small teams virtually
5. Expertise in PostgreSQL database architecture
6. Expertise in implementing and maintaining highly available configurations with disaster recovery for mission critical or tier-1 applications
7. Experience with ETL and data warehouse tools like airflow, SSIS, redshift
8. Experience with database query optimization, performance troubleshooting, and capacity planning
9. Experience with version control systems e.g. GitHub
10. Ability to take ownership of assignments and drive to resolution
11. Ability to work in a fast-paced, high-energy environment
12. Experience writing clean, readable, and maintainable code
13. Experience with automation tools and scripting for automating routine work
14. Successful completion of a background screening process including, but not limited to, employment verifications, criminal search, OFAC, SS Verification, as well as credit and drug screening, where applicable and in accordance with federal and local regulations

Preferred Requirements:

1. Experience with other SQL/NoSQL databases: SQL Server, MongoDB, DynamoDB, InfluxDB, Neo4
2. Experience with streaming / pipelining infrastructure like Kafka
3. Experience with containerized runtime environments: Docker, Kubernetes
4. Experience with Cloud hosting services: AWS, Azure, GCP
5. Experience working in both legacy and greenfield codebases