Hybrid Senior Data Platform Engineer

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About the role

  • Senior Data Platform Engineer managing MongoDB and SQL Server at Progress, ensuring database reliability and performance. Collaborating with teams to design resilient data solutions while optimizing operations.

Responsibilities

  • Act as the primary owner for MongoDB / MongoDB Atlas and Microsoft SQL Server environments
  • Administer databases: security, user management, configuration, backup and recovery
  • Monitor database health, performance, and capacity, and take proactive action when needed
  • Troubleshoot and resolve production issues, including participation in an on-call rotation
  • Perform regular maintenance: patching, upgrades, index and statistics maintenance
  • Optimize queries, indexes, and schemas to improve performance and reduce cost
  • Support development teams with data modeling, query design, and performance best practices
  • Contribute automation scripts and tooling for provisioning, monitoring, and routine operations
  • Document standards, procedures, and runbooks for database operations

Requirements

  • 5+ years of professional database experience, including 3+ as a primary DBA/Database Engineer
  • Strong expertise in MongoDB / MongoDB Atlas in production (design, operations, performance tuning)
  • Strong expertise in Microsoft SQL Server (installation, configuration, HA/DR, performance tuning)
  • Excellent SQL skills and experience with T-SQL and PL/SQL or similar procedural extensions
  • Proven experience running, maintaining, and monitoring mission-critical production databases
  • Strong troubleshooting skills across database, OS, and application layers
  • Experience working with both Linux/Unix and Windows environments
  • Clear written and verbal communication and a customer-focused mindset
  • Hands-on experience with Redis, DynamoDB, MySQL and Elasticsearch is beneficial
  • Programming or scripting in Python, PowerShell, Bash, C#, Go, Java, or Node.js is beneficial
  • Experience with cloud platforms (AWS/Azure/GCP) and infrastructure-as-code tools (Ansible, Terraform) is beneficial

Benefits

  • Medical, dental, vision, life & disability, and financial benefits (including 401(k) retirement savings plan)
  • Tuition Reimbursement program
  • Additional voluntary benefits including crucial illness/hospital indemnity, identity theft protection, auto & home insurance, legal, and pet insurance
  • Competitive salary, bonus, and best-in-class Employee Stock Purchase Program (ESPP) with a 27-month lookback
  • Flexible paid vacation time, paid day off for your birthday, and company holidays
  • A variety of leave plans, including Parental Leave
  • Employee Assistance Program (EAP) and an employee well-being program focusing on physical, mental, and financial health

Job title

Senior Data Platform Engineer

Job type

Experience level

Senior

Salary

$136,000 - $168,000 per year

Degree requirement

Bachelor's Degree

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