Senior Database Engineer II

SurveyMonkey
Canada
Workplace: RemoteFull timeCAD 95,200 - 137,000 annuallyFunction: Solutions Engineering & Sales EngineeringExperience: 7+ yearsEducation: bachelorsSkills: ["Collaborative","Self-motivated","Strong communication"]

Help evolve database systems toward a cloud-native, globally distributed architecture. Design and implement scalable solutions for online and analytical workloads, while managing and optimizing SQL Server and MySQL with robust tuning, replication, backup/recovery, and monitoring. Build and maintain data integration pipelines, collaborate with data engineering/science, contribute to data governance and security, and automate provisioning, CI/CD, and deployments. Participate in on-call as needed and research emerging database technologies.

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Senior Database Engineer II

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Job Summary

Help evolve database systems toward a cloud-native, globally distributed architecture. Design and implement scalable solutions for online and analytical workloads, while managing and optimizing SQL Server and MySQL with robust tuning, replication, backup/recovery, and monitoring. Build and maintain data integration pipelines, collaborate with data engineering/science, contribute to data governance and security, and automate provisioning, CI/CD, and deployments. Participate in on-call as needed and research emerging database technologies.
Location: Canada
Workplace: Remote
Employment Type: Full time
Job Function: Solutions Engineering & Sales Engineering
Seniority: Mid level

Key Responsibilities

  • •Partner with cross-functional teams to design and implement scalable, reliable data store solutions for online and analytical workloads.
  • •Manage and optimize SQL Server and MySQL, including schema design, query tuning, replication, backup/recovery, and performance monitoring.
  • •Implement and maintain data integration pipelines across heterogeneous data stores.
  • •Apply and promote best practices for relational and NoSQL database design, contributing to data governance and security for the data platform.
  • •Collaborate with data engineering and data science teams to troubleshoot issues end-to-end and deliver scalable, flexible solutions; contribute automation and participate in on-call as needed.

Pay and Benefits

Salary: CAD 95,200 - 137,000 annually
Perks:Health InsuranceDentalVisionLife InsuranceDisability InsuranceRrsp MatchingPaid HolidaysPaid LeaveEmployee Assistance

Key Requirements

  • •7+ years managing high-performing production databases.
  • •5+ years strong SQL query skills, writing complex, optimized queries across large datasets for administration and application use.
  • •3+ years designing, optimizing, and managing PostgreSQL production databases.
  • •Strong expertise in SQL Server (clustering, high availability groups, partitioning) and MySQL (replication, partitioning, indexing, stored procedures, performance tuning).
  • •Hands-on experience provisioning cloud infrastructure with Terraform and working with vector databases (e.g., Pinecone, Milvus, Qdrant, or pgvector).
Experience:7+ yearsCloud databasesData engineeringRelational databasesNoSQL databases
Education:Bachelor's in Computer Science
Skills:CollaborativeSelf-motivatedStrong communication
Tech Stack:SQL ServerMySQLPostgreSQLTerraformPineconeMilvusQdrantPgvectorAWS RDSAuroraDynamoDBETLCI/CDStored proceduresPythonBashPowerShellAnsibleNoSQLRelational databases

Company Brief

SurveyMonkey
Provides an online survey platform and experience management tools that help organizations collect, analyze, and act on feedback from customers, employees, and markets through surveys, forms, and analytics.
Industry: Enterprise Software
Company Size: Enterprise (1,001+ employees)
Revenue: USD 250M to 500M
Growth: Public Company
Valuation: Public Company (Market Cap in USD)
Funding: IPO / Publicly Listed
Headquarters: San Mateo, United States
Founded: 1999
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