Principal Data Engineer

Principal Database Engineer

Looking for an innovative, high-growth, multi-award-winning company in one of the hottest segments of the security market?  Look no further than Veracode! 

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We are seeking an exceptional Principal Database Engineer experienced in highly available cloud database services for a role in our Data Platform group focused on building and operating our cloud database infrastructure. 

What you will be responsible for: 

• Production database health and performance monitoring, including participation in on-call rotation. 
• Partner with Veracode engineering teams to craft optimized data models and access paths for well-designed cloud-native services. 
• Deploy cloud resource and their configurations using DevOps tooling, preferably terraform. 
• Proactively monitor and perform query tuning and optimization across databases underpinning multi-tenant SaaS applications. 
• Design, implement and exercise approach to BCDR scenarios for our database systems. 
• Analyze existing systems and design databases to support our business applications, ensuring scalability, security, performance, and reliability. 
• Decompose legacy data models to enable de-coupled services with reasonable bounded context and develop migration strategies/implementation between them. 
• Perform code review/approval/governance functions. 
• Translate logical data models into physical, optimized and highly available database structures including partitioning, sharding and replication for mission critical applications. 
• Develop and document database architectures. 

Required Skills:

• BS/MS in Computer Science or related field, or relevant industry experience. 
• Extensive hands-on experience supporting relational database solutions including PostgreSQL, Oracle and MySQL in production at scale.  
• Experience managing/operating highly available databases in public cloud deployments, preferably AWS. 
• Experience in Cloud deployments and concepts for CI/CD, Microservices (k8), Networking and Security. 
• Experience in DevOps and Infrastructure as Code (IaC) to deploy and manage resources. 
• Significant tuning/optimization expertise in large RDBMS deployments. Experience is AWS services would be desirable. 
• Expertise in relational database design including partitioning, indexing and data modeling techniques. 
• Strong diagnostic skills. 
• Advanced knowledge of SQL. 
• Hands-on experience with NoSQL/Document database solutions such as MongoDB, AWS Redshift, ElasticSearch including data modeling, tuning, shard key selection, etc. 
• Knowledge of approaches to data security, governance, and access controls  
• Highly collaborative team player.  
• Strong organizational and communication skills. 

Desired Experience:

• Proficiency in a core programming language, e.g. Python, Java. 
• Experience with AWS database services such as RDS, Aurora, Redshift. 
• Proficiency in IAC, preferably Terraform. 
• Experience with CI/CD tooling and practices

What we offer you: 

• Outstanding Medical, Dental, and Vision Coverage to meet all your healthcare needs. 
• Wellness benefits to help you focus on what’s most important.
• “Take What You Need” time off policy.
•  Extensive development and training offerings to help you grow your career at Veracode.
• Generous 401k match to help save for your future.
• Amazing community of professionals who take pride in what we do every day.

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Job Grade: Principal

Employment opportunities are available to all applicants without regard to race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.