Database Engineer

Summary

Join Jalasoft's innovative team as a skilled Database Engineer with cloud experience. You will leverage your expertise in database design, development, and management while working on cloud-based solutions, enhancing data capabilities and ensuring optimal performance, reliability, and security of database systems in a cloud environment. This role involves supporting day-to-day database operations, writing and optimizing SQL queries, collaborating on scalable database services, building CI/CD pipelines, automating database provisioning, diagnosing performance issues, supporting ETL pipelines, and documenting operational procedures. You will partner with principal engineers to design reusable patterns and blueprints. This position offers remote work, 13 floating holidays, and 15 vacation days per year.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, information systems, or equivalent experience
• 4+ years of professional experience with SQL Server, PostgreSQL, or other relational databases
• Solid knowledge of writing and tuning SQL queries, views, and stored procedures
• Understanding of data modeling principles and indexing strategies
• Exposure to database automation and CI/CD practices using tools such as Git, Liquibase, Flyway, or similar
• Familiarity with Agile software development processes
• Basic understanding of cloud database concepts (e.g., Cloud SQL, managed backups, IAM)
• Willingness to learn and contribute to observability and operational excellence through tools like Cloud Monitoring or OpenTelemetry
• Strong analytical and troubleshooting skills
• Excellent communication and documentation skills

Responsibilities

• Support day-to-day database operations across Cloud SQL, AlloyDB, and legacy SQL Server environments
• Write and optimize SQL queries, stored procedures, and data models
• Collaborate to implement scalable, low-latency database services for OLTP and analytical workloads
• Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines for schema migrations using tools like Liquibase or Flyway
• Contribute to the automation of database provisioning using Infrastructure-as-Code (Terraform)
• Diagnose and resolve performance issues using telemetry tools
• Support ETL pipelines and real-time data movement
• Document and maintain operational runbooks, architecture decisions, and troubleshooting guides
• Partner with principal engineers to design reusable patterns and blueprints

Preferred Qualifications

Experience with Infrastructure-as-Code (e.g., Terraform) is a strong plus

Benefits

• Remote work
• 13 floating holiday
• 15 vacation days per year completed
• Good working environment