Database Engineer

Role Description

The Database Engineer is responsible for supporting the reliability, performance, scalability, security, and operational governance of PlanSource's database platforms. This role contributes to lifecycle management for production and non-production database environments, including:

• Performance optimization
• Capacity planning
• Disaster recovery readiness
• Cloud modernization
• Automation
• Observability
• Data lifecycle management

This role blends traditional database administration fundamentals with modern engineering practices, including:

• Automation
• Cloud-native operations
• Reliability engineering
• Cross-functional partnership with application teams

The Database Engineer partners with Engineering, DevOps, Infrastructure, Security, Architecture, and business stakeholders to help ensure database platforms remain reliable, resilient, secure, governed, cost-aware, and aligned with business objectives.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, or equivalent practical experience.
• Experience administering production MySQL-compatible database environments supporting customer-facing or business-critical applications.
• Hands-on AWS database experience, including Amazon RDS and/or Aurora MySQL.
• Strong SQL tuning, query optimization, indexing, and performance troubleshooting skills.
• Experience with backup, restore, replication, and high availability database practices.
• Experience supporting production systems in high-availability, high-volume, or business-critical environments.
• Experience with database monitoring, observability, and performance analysis using tools such as CloudWatch, Grafana, Prometheus, MySQL Performance Schema, slow query logs, or similar.
• Linux administration, shell scripting, or operational automation experience.
• Experience operating in Agile, DevOps, and change-controlled production environments.
• Ability to communicate clearly with technical and non-technical stakeholders and manage multiple priorities.
• Willingness to participate in production support, maintenance windows, and database-related on-call rotations.

Requirements

• 5+ years administering production MySQL environments supporting customer-facing applications.
• Experience with sharded MySQL environments, multi-tenant SaaS platforms, or large-scale distributed database architectures.
• Exposure to Database Reliability Engineering or Site Reliability Engineering practices applied to database platforms.
• Experience with Infrastructure-as-Code, including Terraform.
• Experience supporting Microsoft SQL Server environments or working across multiple relational database platforms such as MySQL, SQL Server, PostgreSQL, or Aurora.
• Experience with data retention, archive, purge, rollback, reinstate, and lifecycle management activities.
• Experience with database modernization, migration, major version upgrades, or cloud migration initiatives.
• Familiarity with incident management, problem management, change management, and architecture governance frameworks.
• Exposure to database cost optimization, AWS cost management, or cloud FinOps practices.
• Experience partnering with application engineering teams on schema design, query design, release readiness, and performance-impacting changes.

Benefits

• Comprehensive health coverage with multiple medical plan options covering 100% of in-network preventive care.
• Employer-funded Health Savings Account (HSA) - up to $1,000 annually for family coverage.
• Dental & Vision plans with 100% coverage for routine dental care and $250 vision frame allowance, plus employee-only vision premiums at $0.
• 401(k) with immediate vesting and a 50% company match up to 6% of contributions.
• Generous paid parental leave, adoption assistance, and fertility benefits.
• Flexible PTO, paid holidays, a strong culture of work-life balance, and Flex Fridays in the summer.
• Mental health & wellbeing support, including Employee Assistance Program (EAP), movement and wellness resources.
• Rewards and recognition programs that celebrate employees through peer recognition, awards, and quarterly recognition initiatives.

Company Description

At PlanSource, benefits are at the core of what we do, and we understand their impact on our employees and their families. That’s why we’ve designed our benefits program to support overall wellbeing across health, financial security, career growth, and work-life balance.