Senior Database Engineer II

SurveyMonkey
Ottawa
Workplace: HybridFull timeCAD 95,200 - 119,000 annuallyFunction: Solutions Engineering & Sales EngineeringExperience: 7+ yearsEducation: bachelorsSkills: ["Self-motivated","Collaborative","Strong communication"]

Design and evolve cloud-native, globally distributed data store architecture for online and analytical workloads. Own SQL Server and MySQL database administration—schema, query tuning, replication, backup/recovery, and performance monitoring—while building data integration pipelines across heterogeneous systems. Partner with data engineering, data science, and software teams to deliver scalable, secure solutions, contribute to data governance, and support reliability through tooling and on-call rotation.

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Senior Database Engineer II

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Job Summary

Design and evolve cloud-native, globally distributed data store architecture for online and analytical workloads. Own SQL Server and MySQL database administration—schema, query tuning, replication, backup/recovery, and performance monitoring—while building data integration pipelines across heterogeneous systems. Partner with data engineering, data science, and software teams to deliver scalable, secure solutions, contribute to data governance, and support reliability through tooling and on-call rotation.
Location: Ottawa
Workplace: Hybrid
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 databases (schema, query tuning, replication, backup/recovery, and performance monitoring).
  • •Implement and maintain data integration pipelines across heterogeneous data stores.
  • •Promote best practices for relational and NoSQL database design within engineering teams.
  • •Contribute to data governance and security initiatives, including troubleshooting issues across the stack and supporting on-call rotation as needed.

Pay and Benefits

Salary: CAD 95,200 - 119,000 annually
Perks:Health InsuranceDentalVisionLife InsuranceDisability InsuranceRrsp MatchingFlexible SpendingPaid HolidaysPaid LeaveEmployee Assistance

Key Requirements

  • •7+ years managing high-performing production databases.
  • •5+ years hands-on SQL query skills, writing complex optimized queries across large datasets.
  • •3+ years hands-on designing, optimizing, and managing PostgreSQL production databases.
  • •Strong expertise in SQL Server and MySQL, including high availability/partitioning and performance tuning.
  • •3+ years writing and maintaining Terraform configurations to provision and manage cloud infrastructure.
Experience:7+ years
Education:Bachelor's in Computer Science or a related field
Skills:Self-motivatedCollaborativeStrong communication
Certifications:AWS certification
Tech Stack:SQL ServerMySQLPostgreSQLTerraformAWS RDSAuroraDynamoDBPineconeMilvusQdrantPgvectorETLCI/CDStored proceduresScriptsPythonBashPowerShellAnsibleWindows

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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