Lead Database & Data Platform Engineer
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≈ $53k – $115k per year (Estimated)
Location
Remote (Argentina, Brazil, Colombia, Mexico)
Seniority
Staff · 7+ years exp
Employment
Full-Time
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Strider is a talent platform that helps companies in the United States hire vetted remote software developers from Latin America and other nearshore regions. Employers are matched with pre-screened engineers for dedicated teams or individual roles, while developers access remote jobs with international companies and support for career growth. The American company focuses on building nearshore development teams that work in North American time zones.
- Own the database and data estate end to end: assess what we have, run a time-critical upgrade as the first job, and then set the direction and standards that mature the whole environment
- The company is the product of a merger, so we run two stacks - C#/.NET on Microsoft SQL Server, and TypeScript/JavaScript on MySQL - both in AWS
- Our SQL Server is BYOL on EC2: we install, configure, and operate it ourselves, an on-premise setup that happens to live in AWS. MySQL runs on RDS
- First 90 days
- 1. Assess the current estate: inventory, backup and recovery posture, high availability configuration, monitoring and alerting gaps, access model, capacity, and cost.
- 2. Produce a written state-of-the-estate and a prioritized remediation plan
- Near-term priority
- 1. Upgrade the Windows Server OS hosting our production SQL Server estate - Windows
- Server 2016 → 2022 - across an Always On Availability Group cluster, with no data loss and
- minimal downtime. Must do before the end of 2026
- 2. Then upgrade the SQL Server version from our current SQL Server 2017, and own the recommendation on whether we stay self-managed on EC2 or move to AWS RDS managed SQL Server after the upgrade.
- Core ownership
- 1. Full ownership of administration, operation,s and optimization for all relational databases: SQL Server (self-managed on EC2) and MySQL (RDS)
- 2. Performance tuning, monitoring and alerting, backup and recovery, high availability and failover, security and access management, capacity and cost
- Maturing the estate
- 1. Define and enforce database standards across the C#/.NET SQL Server and TypeScript/MySQL codebases; act as the technical authority on schema and data-
- access design for both engineering teams
- 2. Own data observability: monitoring, alerting, and capacity forecasting against agreed service levels
- 3. Establish backup and DR testing, access governan,ce and change control that stand up to SOC 2 and our cyber insurer
- 4. Produce and maintain a data platform roadmap covering both relational stacks, Snowfl,ake and the analytics estate
- 5. Set direction for the data engineering team on database matters
- Secondary
- 1. Snowflake administration, including usage and cost monitoring
- 2. Database development - stored procedures, schema design, query optimization
- 3. Data warehouse and data engineering work alongside the data platform team; support internal and external analytics and BI
- 7+ years of professional experience
- Deep and current Microsoft SQL Server administration
- Hands-on experience with SQL Server installation and configuration on a self-managed server (EC2 or on-premise), including OS-level work beneath a live production instance
- Experience with Windows Server administration, including OS upgrades and migrations
- Recently performed SQL Server upgrade, including source and target versions, in-place or side-by-side, and the Windows Server version pairing
- Experience with SQL Server high availability (Always On Availability Groups, failover clustering)
- Experience with MySQL administration
- Experience with AWS (EC2, RDS, S3, IAM, CloudWatch)
- Proficiency with AI tools (e.g., Claude) applied to daily work
- Prior end-to-end ownership of a production database estate, including assessing an
- inherited environment and driving it to a measurably better state
- Experience setting data standards and reviewing schema and data-access design
- across application teams
- Strong communication skills in both spoken and written English
- Startup experience
- Snowflake administration and development
- ETL pipelines and tools (e.g., Rivery, dbt)
- Data warehouse design and development
- Data lake on S3
- BI/analytics tools (e.g., Metabase, QuickSight)
- Data governance and data quality practice
- SQL Server migration to a managed service
- Bachelor's Degree in Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or equivalent
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