Top Remote Database Engineer Jobs

Lead the technical vision, roadmap, and development of Elasticsearch’s ES|QL analytical engine and query capabilities. Design data-intensive systems, algorithms, APIs, and compute infrastructure; research search and analytics technologies; collaborate across product and engineering teams; mentor senior engineers; and contribute hands-on modern Java development. The role requires autonomous technical leadership, expertise in database internals and analytics systems, and the ability to guide complex projects from conception through delivery.

Redevelop and integrate multiple database systems to interface with the state ERP, cloud-hosted enterprise asset management, and internal applications. Develop queries, stored procedures, and functions; design reliable databases, create documentation and diagrams, ensure performance and agency requirements, and help establish a data warehouse foundation. Position is onsite.

Own automated reliability, regression, correctness, and performance testing for InfluxDB Enterprise 3. Build repeatable test contracts, simulate real-world distributed database workloads, investigate performance variations, identify architectural bottlenecks, and generate reports on latency regressions, data divergence, and resource issues. Collaborate with developers, participate in on-call support, and use Rust, containerization, orchestration, CI/CD, and AI-assisted tools.

Own and operate production database infrastructure at scale, ensuring monitoring, performance, reliability, backups, disaster recovery, and capacity planning. Optimize MySQL configurations, queries, schemas, indexes, and execution plans. Automate maintenance, execute upgrades and migrations, investigate incidents, improve documentation, and partner with software engineers on scalable database practices. The role also provides technical guidance to junior team members and supports cloud infrastructure using Terraform.

Own the reliability, performance, availability, scalability, and cost efficiency of production Aurora MySQL databases on AWS. Responsibilities include observability, alerting, query optimization, replication, backups, disaster recovery, schema migrations, reader topology, cost optimization, runbooks, incident response, and database performance reviews. The role partners with engineering teams, supports HIPAA-compliant handling of PHI, and establishes reliable database operating practices.

Designs, administers, and optimizes data systems supporting FSA IAM applications. Develops migration plans from legacy AIMS and PAS systems, creates data models, mappings, layouts, dictionaries, and integration processes, and supports analytics and fraud detection. Manages database configuration, performance tuning, monitoring, backups, capacity, secure data handling, encryption, network data flows, token management, and documentation while collaborating with development, security, and operations teams.

Manage, design, and optimize data activities for federal IAM systems. Develop data models, file layouts, source-to-target mappings, data dictionaries, integrations, ETL processes, and analytics support for identity analysis and fraud detection. Administer and tune databases, including configuration, backups, monitoring, capacity planning, and performance optimization. Support secure handling of identity and PII data, network-related data flows, documentation, token management processes, and collaboration across development, security, and operations teams.

Own reliability, performance, and scalability of Postgres and ClickHouse databases. Build scalable data pipelines, design analytical schemas and DBT models, migrate data to ClickHouse, implement data quality checks, eliminate duplicates, and manage database infrastructure via IaC.

Provide expert MongoDB technical support, troubleshoot complex deployments, administer Linux systems, advise on schema/design, performance tuning, backups, monitoring, and collaborate on support content and product strategy while occasionally traveling for team or customer meetings.

As a PostgreSQL Database Support Engineer, you'll assist DBA teams with troubleshooting, create knowledge base articles, and author community blogs while focusing on performance tuning and high availability solutions.

Leads strategy, architecture, deployment, operations, automation, observability, and reliability initiatives for globally distributed database systems. Partners across engineering and business teams to improve performance, scalability, security, continuity, and operational rigor. Oversees incident troubleshooting, root-cause analyses, release processes, database change management, technology evaluation, roadmap planning, and mentoring while operating databases across Kubernetes, cloud, and bare-metal environments.

Lead design, automation, and optimization of database infrastructure (PostgreSQL/Aurora). Build monitoring, tuning, and scaling strategies, create automation tooling, drive performance and reliability initiatives, and expand into broader SRE responsibilities to improve availability and system health for a growing SaaS platform.

Design, administer, and optimize databases for cloud-native platforms. Support production incidents, evaluate and improve schemas and replication, drive DB architecture choices across AWS/GCP, implement IaC (Terraform) and GitOps, and build repeatable database designs for availability, reliability, and performance.

Designs, provisions, operates, and optimizes secure, highly available relational and NoSQL database platforms. Responsibilities include schema and data modeling, query tuning, cloud database operations, infrastructure-as-code provisioning, automated schema management, policy enforcement, replication, failover, disaster recovery, observability, and technology evaluation. The role collaborates with agile teams to deliver scalable, resilient database solutions for high-volume business workloads.

As a Database & Infrastructure Engineer, you will optimize PostgreSQL infrastructure, improve performance, build internal tools, and design data delivery pipelines for a large-scale application.

The Senior Database Developer designs, optimizes, and maintains databases, migrating data, developing queries, and ensuring security standards are met. They collaborate with teams and support development in DB-related tasks.

The role involves managing Oracle databases, ensuring security and performance, and automating processes while providing technical support and conducting migrations to AWS.

The role involves Oracle database administration, monitoring, bug resolution, performance tuning, and migration to AWS, along with providing technical support.

The Senior Database Administrator will oversee PostgreSQL and MySQL systems, manage database security, implement IaC with Terraform, and ensure high availability with load balancing and failover solutions.

Design, deploy, and optimize SQL Server, PostgreSQL, and MongoDB databases across cloud and on-premises; tune queries and indices; manage backups, DR, failover testing; secure and monitor systems; handle migrations, replication, clustering, and troubleshooting.

Provide expert MySQL/InnoDB support to customer DBA teams: gather data, investigate issues, deliver analyses, run screen-share troubleshooting, author community content, build knowledge-base articles, and host webinars. Support includes performance tuning, HA, backups, Linux administration, monitoring, and occasional travel.