Senior Database Engineer - PostgreSQL/Snowflake DB

Job Description

Senior Database Engineer responsible for designing, optimizing, and automating cloud database solutions across AWS RDS, Postgres, and Snowflake.

This role focuses on performance engineering, data integration, and automation - ensuring our data platforms are scalable, reliable, and efficient.

You'll work closely with DevOps and Product Engineering to build high-performing data infrastructure that supports critical applications and analytics.

Role & Responsibilities :

• 7 years of experience in data engineering, database engineering, or data platform development in production environments.
• Strong hands-on experience with Snowflake, including performance tuning, security, and cost optimization.
• Deep expertise with PostgreSQL and AWS RDS in cloud-native architectures.
• Proven experience designing lakehouse or modern data warehouse architectures.
• Strong understanding of Medallion Architecture, semantic layers, and analytics engineering best practices.
• Experience building and operating advanced ELT pipelines using modern tooling (e.g., dbt, orchestration frameworks).
• Proficiency with SQL and Python for data transformation, automation, and tooling.
• Experience with Terraform and infrastructure-as-code for data platforms.
• Solid understanding of data governance, observability, and reliability engineering

What Success Looks Like Within the First 90 Days :

• Fully onboarded and delivering enhancements to Snowflake and RDS environments.
• Partnering with DevOps and Product Engineering on data infrastructure improvements.
• Delivering optimized queries, schemas, and automation for key systems.

Ongoing Outcomes

• Consistent improvement in data performance, scalability, and reliability.
• Effective automation of database provisioning and change management.
• Continuous collaboration across teams to enhance data availability and governance.

This is Hybrid model working (3 Days work from office role)