[Hiring] Senior Database Engineer @Cambium Learning Group

Role Description

We are seeking a Senior Database Engineer to join our dynamic team of 100+ software engineers, designers, project managers, and specialists who are passionate about building innovative, high-quality solutions. Our work spans a wide range of impactful and forward-thinking technologies, including:

• Advanced algorithms for computer-adaptive testing
• Highly scalable, high-performance distributed systems
• Comprehensive learning management systems
• Universally accessible user interfaces
• AI-driven scoring and assessment tools

As a Senior Database Engineer, you will drive the design, development, and optimization of database systems that power mission-critical, high-transaction applications. You will ensure data integrity, performance, and scalability within modern cloud environments and microservice-based architectures. Acting as a Subject Matter Expert (SME), you will collaborate closely with engineering and DevOps teams to shape and advance our data architecture and strategy in AWS.

Qualifications

• B.S. in Computer Science (or related field) and 5+ years related experience or M.S. Degree and 3+ years of experience.
• 5+ years of hands-on SQL Server development experience.
• Expert knowledge of all aspects of SQL Server including the ability to write and deploy effective triggers, stored procedures, and user-defined functions.
• Authoritative understanding of SQL Server concurrency features, transactions, and locking.
• Excellent data modeling and schema design skills, including normalization and de-normalization.
• Thorough understanding of best practices for database maintenance, including index and file management, backups, failure recovery, database defragmentation, documentation.
• Ability to analyze disk space requirements and hardware utilization, automate error notification.
• Basic SQL Server administration skills, such as backups, restores, taking and reverting snapshots, user/role security, access permissions, etc.
• Experience operating SQL Server in AWS: Amazon RDS for SQL Server, RDS Custom, or SQL Server on EC2.
• Familiarity with AWS microservices architecture: designing databases to support a microservice-based application in AWS.
• Experience optimizing data access from microservices (e.g. minimizing cross-service latency, designing efficient APIs, minimizing coupling).
• Knowledge of containerization (Docker), orchestration (Kubernetes, AWS ECS/EKS) in microservices context.

Requirements

• Develop state of the art database solutions to meet the stringent performance, scalability and integrity needs of high transaction systems.
• Design database schema based on data modeling of business requirements and entities.
• Development work will involve writing stored procedures, functions, views, triggers, constraints, etc.
• Create deployment and rollback scripts for all database objects manually or auto generated.
• Analyze access patterns and propose the best combination of indexes, constraints, foreign keys, and queries.
• Troubleshoot performance problems and propose short-term fixes and long-term solutions.
• Work with Architects and drive developers in the future evolution of the data layer researching options and developing prototypes before eventual introduction into the tech stack.
• Stay current with evolving databases, AWS, microservices, and cloud-native technologies; prototype new tools/features for adoption.

Benefits

• An Equal Opportunity Employer.
• We are dedicated to fostering a culture that celebrates unique backgrounds, ideas, and experiences.
• All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without discrimination on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, gender, gender identity/expression, sexual orientation, national origin, protected veteran status, or disability.