Sr Database Engineer

Porch Group is a leading vertical software and insurance platform and is positioned to be the best partner to help homebuyers move, maintain, and fully protect their homes. We offer differentiated products and services, with homeowners insurance at the center of this relationship. We differentiate and look to win in the massive and growing homeowners insurance opportunity by

1) providing the best services for homebuyers

2) led by advantaged underwriting in insurance

3) to protect the whole home

As a leader in the home services software-as-a-service (“SaaS”) space, we’ve built deep relationships with approximately 30 thousand companies that are key to the home-buying transaction, such as home inspectors, mortgage companies, and title companies.

In 2020, Porch Group rang the Nasdaq bell and began trading under the ticker symbol PRCH. We are looking to build a truly great company and are JUST GETTING STARTED.

Job Title: Senior Database Engineer

Location: India

Workplace Type: Remote

Job Summary

The future is bright for the Porch Group, and we'd love for you to be a part of it as our Senior Database Engineer with the Data team.

Porch Group is looking for an experienced Senior Database Engineer/ Senior Database Architect to design, implement, and manage our data architectures and database platforms across GCP and Azure. You will collaborate with software, systems, and DevOps engineers, in partnership with business, analytics, software, and data science teams, to influence the architecture of our key data platforms while balancing operational excellence, security, reliability, performance efficiency, and cost optimization.

In this role, you will contribute to our technology roadmap and architectural improvements to our InfoSec, data platform, and disaster recovery/business continuity plans, support strategic data migration and modernization initiatives, and own the day-to-day operations, tuning, and optimization of our production database systems.

What You Will Do As A Senior Database Engineer

• Collaborate with software, systems, and DevOps engineers in designing and implementing data architectures and data computing platforms in partnership with business, analytics, software, and data science teams.

• Influence the architecture of our key data platforms while balancing operational excellence, security, reliability, performance efficiency, and cost optimization.

• Contribute to our technology roadmap and implement architectural improvements to our InfoSec, data platform, and disaster recovery/business continuity plans.

• Contribute to strategic projects by migrating or transforming data stores in support of new project requirements.

• Support day-to-day operations of our data systems and information security initiatives and projects; define, sustain, and implement data engineering processes and best practices; tune, maintain, and optimize production systems.

• Build and maintain a self-healing database platform using AI-based observability and monitoring tools (e.g., native cloud-provider monitoring, or equivalent).

• Support our initiatives for modernizing/centralizing our database footprint in partnership with business, analytics, software, InfoSec, and data science teams.

• Provide support to the engineering team on database operations (SQL Server, PostgreSQL), including writing and tuning SQL scripts, creating database objects, and troubleshooting performance and connectivity issues.

• Manage, patch, upgrade and monitor PostgreSQL and SQL Server databases running on GCP (Cloud SQL) and Azure (Azure Database for PostgreSQL and Azure SQL Database / SQL Server on Azure VMs), including backup, recovery, and high-availability/disaster-recovery configuration.

• Design, manage, and monitor our BigQuery data warehouse in GCP, including schema design, query optimization, and cost/slot management.

• Implement Infrastructure as Code (IaC) using Terraform.

• Support CI/CD workflows for database changes, ADF pipelines, and infrastructure deployments (e.g., Git, Azure DevOps).

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What You Will Bring As A Senior Database Engineer

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or Systems Engineering preferred, or equivalent experience.

• 8+ years of experience in data engineering and/or database administration, with hands-on ownership of production database platforms.

• Demonstrated proficiency in creating data structures and a strong understanding of technical design principles.

• Hands-on experience with BigQuery, Compute Engine, and Cloud SQL (PostgreSQL and SQL Server) in GCP.

• Hands-on experience with Azure Database for PostgreSQL, Azure SQL Database, and/or SQL Server on Azure VMs.

• Experience with database high availability, disaster recovery, backup/restore, and performance tuning (e.g., Always On Availability Groups, point-in-time recovery, replication).

• Working knowledge of version control and CI/CD tooling (e.g., Git, Azure DevOps, Cloud Build).

• Working knowledge of Azure Data Factory, SSIS / SSRS in Azure and Dataflow/Dataproc in GCP.

• Ability to effectively communicate with various stakeholders and partners.

• Experience working with Agile or similar methodologies preferred.

• Experience supporting AI/ML platforms and integrating AI-powered data tools.

• Unix scripting experience required, along with a willingness to learn/support technologies you may not presently know.

• Proven experience working with US based business teams.

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills in English language.
• Ability to work within core US business hours / time zone expectations - Eastern Standard Time (EST) overlap.
• Working Hours: 8 Hours (Excluding breaks) 4 Core US Hours Overlap (7:30pm- 11:30pm IST) 4 flexible hours (IST)
• Workspace: A quiet, dedicated space to work, and a reliable internet connection with a minimum speed of 50 Mbps.

What You Will Get As A Porch Group Team Member

Pay Range*: ₹2,475,000 - ₹3,465,000 INR Annually

*Please know your actual pay at Porch will reflect a number of factors among which are your work experience and skillsets, job related knowledge, alignment with market and our Porch employees, as well as your geographic location.

Our benefits package will provide you with comprehensive coverage for your health, life, and financial wellbeing.

• Our benefits include medical insurance, accident insurance and retiral benefits
• Our wellness programs include 12 company-paid holidays, 2 flexible holidays, privilege/earned leave, casual/sick leave, paid maternity and paternity leaves, and weekly wellness events.

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What’s next?

Submit your application below and our Talent Acquisition team will be reviewing your application shortly! If your resume gets us intrigued, we will look to connect with you for a chat to learn more about your background, and then possibly invite you to have virtual interviews. What's important to call out is that we want to make sure not only that you're the right person for us, but also that we're the right next step for you, so come prepared with all the questions you have!

Porch is committed to building an inclusive culture of belonging that not only embraces the diversity of our people but also reflects the diversity of the communities in which we work and the customers we serve. We know that the happiest and highest performing teams include people with diverse perspectives that encourage new ways of solving problems, so we strive to attract and develop talent from all backgrounds and create workplaces where everyone feels seen, heard and empowered to bring their full, authentic selves to work.

Porch is an Equal Opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex including sexual orientation and gender identity, national origin, disability, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by applicable laws, regulations, and ordinances.