Top Remote Database Engineer Jobs

The Principal Database Engineer manages the Oracle Exadata platforms, oversees database architecture and engineering, optimizes costs, and supports AI and analytics initiatives. They lead performance engineering, licensing strategy, and cloud integration, ensuring operational excellence and mentorship for technical teams.

Administer, secure, optimize, and modernize enterprise Oracle and cloud database platforms in a federal hybrid-cloud environment. Responsibilities include production database maintenance, performance tuning, backup and recovery, high availability, incident response, automation, infrastructure-as-code, migrations, vulnerability remediation, documentation, and cross-functional troubleshooting. The role supports Oracle, Azure, Tessell, and additional database technologies while maintaining reliable 24x7 operations and contributing to DevSecOps and continuous improvement initiatives.

Develop and maintain complex database objects, optimize SQL queries and execution plans, manage data archiving and lifecycle processes, execute data corrections and migrations, and automate database deployments using Liquibase. Ensure database security, integrity, scalability, and performance while collaborating in an Agile DevOps environment supporting DHS ICE mission systems.

Designs, develops, administers, migrates, and optimizes Oracle, PostgreSQL, and AWS database solutions. Builds ETL workflows, data integrations, deployment automation, monitoring, backup and recovery capabilities, and migration pipelines. Performs performance tuning, troubleshooting, testing, security, and production support while collaborating with engineering, DevOps, data, product, and government stakeholders. Contributes to Agile, CI/CD, DevSecOps, data governance, compliance, and AI-assisted engineering initiatives.

Designs, develops, and optimizes SQL Server databases and T-SQL code in collaboration with Java development teams. Responsibilities include query tuning, relational database design, backend process development, reporting, legacy code modernization, documentation, and storage architecture. The role may also involve database administration, ETL, monitoring, advanced SQL Server functionality, agile workflows, and establishing database development best practices.

Designs, automates, and optimizes mission-critical PostgreSQL, Oracle, MySQL, and DynamoDB platforms. Builds infrastructure as code, CI/CD pipelines, automated failovers, database tooling, and Kafka-based change data capture and replication frameworks. Partners with systems engineers, developers, and architects to deliver resilient, high-performance, event-driven data infrastructure. Maintains monitoring, alerting, security, access controls, query optimization, and real-time data availability across AWS environments.

Own the reliability, performance, architecture, and lifecycle of heterogeneous database platforms. Design and operate relational, NoSQL, caching, time-series, and warehouse systems; improve provisioning, developer tooling, CI/CD, backups, disaster recovery, security, and performance. Influence architecture and product decisions, lead migrations and upgrades, troubleshoot developer and production environments, and establish platform standards, documentation, and regulatory traceability.

Develops and optimizes enterprise database environments across SQL Server and Azure platforms. Responsibilities include query and execution-plan tuning, indexing, database design, monitoring, incident response, backup and recovery, high availability, security, compliance, capacity planning, automation, documentation, and collaboration with development and DBA teams. The role supports ETL/ELT, data warehouses, lakehouses, and large-scale datasets, participates in on-call support, and may travel up to 10%.

Maintain and administer Microsoft SQL Server databases supporting healthcare research administration, compliance, reporting, and operations. Design schemas and tables; develop and optimize stored procedures, queries, scripts, utilities, and reports; manage scheduled jobs; monitor performance, security, backups, recovery, and data integrity; troubleshoot database and application issues; coordinate with web developers; document solutions; and provide technical recommendations to research leaders.

Develop and maintain SQL-based data views, ETL workflows, and cloud data warehouse processes supporting CMS healthcare research data. Ingest new data sources, optimize database performance, document business logic, support production data loads, and collaborate with analysts, technical leads, and CMS partners. The role also involves data quality, monitoring, permissions, recovery, troubleshooting, and occasional off-hours or weekend production support.

Designs, operates, and improves production database systems across MySQL, PostgreSQL, BigQuery, and Google Cloud Platform. Responsibilities include performance tuning, backup and recovery, replication, upgrades, schema changes, capacity planning, data integrity, disaster recovery, and database security. The role partners with engineering and data teams, automates operational work using scripting, infrastructure as code, and CI/CD, and participates in a scheduled 24x7 on-call rotation.

Design, deploy, secure, automate, and operate enterprise MongoDB platforms across on-premises infrastructure and MongoDB Atlas. Responsibilities include replica sets, sharding, high availability, disaster recovery, backup and recovery, performance tuning, monitoring, security controls, migrations, incident response, and lifecycle management. The role partners with application, cloud, infrastructure, security, and SRE teams; develops operational standards and automation; supports mission-critical environments; and provides technical leadership and mentorship.

Serve as a senior SQL Server DBA and database engineering advisor for clients. Responsibilities include performance tuning, cloud database architecture, migrations, high availability and disaster recovery, capacity planning, automation, monitoring, backup validation, deployment scripting, root-cause analysis, and client guidance. The role supports Azure and AWS database platforms, develops Python and PowerShell automation, and collaborates with technical and executive stakeholders.

Administers and optimizes enterprise SQL Server and Oracle databases across on-premises, Azure, and OCI environments. Manages high availability, disaster recovery, performance, security, monitoring, backups, cloud integrations, ETL, SFTP, and workload automation. Applies DevOps, CI/CD, scripting, infrastructure-as-code, and observability practices to database operations. Troubleshoots cross-platform production issues, maintains data governance documentation, supports compliance, and evaluates AI-enabled database technologies.

Lead the strategy, architecture, and operation of Chainguard’s database platform. Build production tooling and automated guardrails; improve replication, high availability, backups, disaster recovery, migrations, capacity planning, and global database resilience. Assess risks across existing systems, establish standards and governance, write production code, and lead cross-functional initiatives across engineering teams. The role requires deep PostgreSQL and MySQL expertise, cloud infrastructure experience, Linux and Go proficiency, and staff-level technical leadership.

Design, build, and automate database and infrastructure security solutions across cloud and on-prem environments. Partner with product and engineering teams to implement monitoring, vulnerability management, privileged access reporting, compliance (SOX/CIS), and integrations (ServiceNow, Splunk). Apply IaC, scripting, DevSecOps practices, and perform patching, DR, and security lifecycle activities while mentoring team members.

Provides senior SQL Server database engineering and DBA services for client environments. Responsibilities include performance tuning, cloud database architecture, high availability and disaster recovery, capacity planning, automation, monitoring, migrations, deployment scripting, root-cause analysis, and client advisory services across AWS and Azure.

Supports and improves enterprise database platforms, primarily Oracle, through administration, monitoring, performance management, incident resolution, patching, backup and recovery, disaster recovery, and infrastructure changes. The role contributes to automation, migrations, cloud adoption, documentation, security, and continuous improvement while participating in an on-call rota. It requires production Oracle administration, RMAN expertise, Linux experience, and familiarity with incident, problem, and change management processes.

Leads client-facing database migration and modernization engagements across AWS, relational, and NoSQL platforms. Designs migration architectures, data pipelines, ETL/ELT workflows, proof-of-concepts, and reusable technical accelerators. Facilitates executive conversations and workshops, translates complex technical solutions into business outcomes, and supports pre-sales opportunities. The role also develops GenAI-enabled migration tooling, influences senior stakeholders, and collaborates with distributed engineering, product, and data teams.

Lead reliability, scalability, and operational excellence of large-scale database platforms across cloud and on-prem. Build automation-first database infrastructure (Kubernetes operators, IaC, GitOps), drive monitoring/SLOs, incident leadership, performance and cost optimization, and partner with application teams on safe schema/migration practices. Mentor engineers and evaluate AI-assisted workflows to improve productivity and reliability.

Own the durability, recoverability, performance, and security of a production PostgreSQL/RDS fleet supporting a live trading platform. Lead replication, failover, backup and restore, disaster-recovery drills, data lifecycle management, access control, encryption, and database observability. Investigate engine-level performance issues including WAL contention, replica lag, bloat, and locking. Build infrastructure and AI-assisted operational tooling while documenting runbooks and reliability decisions.

Build and operate Go-based automation for PostgreSQL provisioning, configuration, upgrades, failover, scaling, and decommissioning at GitLab.com scale. Develop a PostgreSQL-as-a-service platform, integrate cloud infrastructure and infrastructure-as-code tooling, improve database performance and reliability, and create safe upgrade automation. The role includes production ownership, architecture leadership, code reviews, documentation, cross-team collaboration, mentorship, and using AI agents in engineering workflows.

Own and scale the PostgreSQL and AWS Aurora database layer for a high-volume legal-services platform. Responsibilities include schema and migration review, query and index tuning, production issue diagnosis, lock and replication troubleshooting, database maintenance automation, backup and restore support, access control, and collaboration with infrastructure, software development, and data science teams. The role also supports reporting, billing, PII-sensitive data, and ERP-related data flows.

Owns day-to-day database operations and backup/recovery for a large multi-account AWS environment. Maintains RDS, Aurora, and self-managed databases, validates backup restoration, executes disaster-recovery runbooks, and collaborates with infrastructure, security, Kubernetes, networking, and cloud architecture teams. Supports escalations from a 24x7 monitoring team and helps advance managed services and Cloud Center of Excellence capabilities.

Architects and optimizes high-volume database platforms supporting trading applications. Responsibilities include MySQL schema design, SQL and query optimization, migrations, scalability, reliability, observability, production issue resolution, developer tooling, and database architecture. The role partners with engineering and platform teams, leads technical initiatives, establishes database best practices, mentors engineers, and uses Google Cloud services to improve performance, resilience, and operational efficiency.