[Hiring] Senior Database Engineer @ABC Legal Services

Role Description

ABC Legal is looking for a detail-oriented Database Engineer to help own, improve, and scale the PostgreSQL database layer behind Skye, our core legal-services platform. Skye supports high-volume process serving, court filing, operational workflows, customer facing applications, mobile field work, integrations, reporting, billing, and automation. Its primary operational database is PostgreSQL across all environments, with AWS Aurora reader/writer topology in production and major staging environments.

This role is ideal for someone who enjoys deep database work:

• Understanding complex schemas
• Reviewing migrations
• Tuning high-volume queries
• Diagnosing production issues
• Improving operational safety
• Helping application engineers make better data-access decisions

Accounting, ERP, or NetSuite/Boomi experience is helpful because some important data flows touch billing and payments, but this is fundamentally a PostgreSQL/Aurora database engineering role.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience working with production relational databases (8+ years a plus)
• Strong production experience with PostgreSQL, ideally including AWS Aurora PostgreSQL
• Strong SQL skills, including joins, CTEs, query plans, indexes, constraints, triggers, transactions, and lock behavior
• Experience investigating high-volume databases with large tables, long-lived schemas, and real production load
• Ability to distinguish intrinsic query cost from lock contention, blocking, bad plans, missing indexes, and application call-volume issues
• Strong attention to detail when reviewing schema migrations and operational changes
• Experience collaborating with application engineers on database-backed application design and performance
• Good judgment around access control, PII, production safety, and release risk
• Clear written communication for documenting findings, tradeoffs, and recommended fixes
• Bachelor's degree in engineering or software field preferred, Master's Degree is a plus

Requirements

• Experience with Linux, Bash, scripting, cron, or other orchestration/automation tools used for database maintenance and operational workflows
• Java experience, especially in applications using MyBatis, Spring, or similar data access frameworks
• Experience with reporting workloads, BI tooling, Metabase-style access patterns, PostGIS, or geospatial query performance
• Experience with AWS monitoring tools, CloudWatch, RDS/Aurora Performance Insights, pg_stat_statements, pgAdmin, or similar observability tools
• Experience using AI coding agents such as Codex, Claude, or similar tools; at minimum, willingness to use AI-assisted development tools as part of day-to-day engineering work
• Secondary bonus: experience with NetSuite, Boomi, ERP / iPaaS integrations, accounting, billing, AR/AP, payments, invoices, credit memos, customer deposits, vendor payments, or working-table integration patterns

Benefits

• Health, Dental, Vision insurance
• 401(k) with company matching
• Paid time off
• 7 Paid company holidays
• 4 Floating holidays per-year
• Life Insurance and AD&D Insurance
• Long Term Disability
• Health Care Reimbursement Flexible Spending Account
• Dependent Care Flexible Spending Account
• EAP (Employee Assistance Program)
• Pet Insurance

Schedule

Full-Time Monday through Friday. Flexible schedule

Salary Range

$140,000-$150,000 depending on experience

Application Closing Date

October 30, 2026, 11:59PM