Top Remote Database Engineer Jobs

Lead technical strategy for production database and storage systems, architect and implement cloud database/storage solutions prioritizing reliability, scalability, observability, and security. Drive upgrades, backups, recovery, migrations, incident response, DR planning, and mentor engineers while participating in on-call rotation.

Lead strategy, architecture, and implementation for cloud database and storage systems focused on reliability, scalability, observability, security, and disaster recovery. Manage high-volume databases (self-managed and AWS managed), drive incident response and root cause analysis, mentor engineers, promote IaC and config management best practices, participate in on-call rotation, and collaborate with leadership and partner teams.

Lead design, optimization, and maintenance of Oracle-based database pipelines for statewide education data. Develop advanced Oracle SQL/PLSQL, parse and query JSON in Oracle, tune performance, build ETL/data-mapping routines across Oracle/SQL Server/MySQL, and collaborate with Java/.NET teams within Agile releases.

Provide senior-level database architecture and engineering for cloud-hosted geospatial systems. Design, optimize, secure, migrate, and sustain relational and non-relational databases. Troubleshoot performance and integrity issues, support DevSecOps/CI-CD integration, backup/recovery, schema updates, and compliance. Collaborate with cross-functional teams, produce documentation, and support deployments and surge investigations in a DoD mission environment.

Design, administer, and optimize PostgreSQL and Microsoft SQL Server databases for mission-critical VA healthcare applications. Support cloud (AWS/Azure) deployments, backup/recovery, replication, performance tuning, automation (IaC), CI/CD, and collaborate with cross-functional Agile teams to ensure secure, scalable database environments.

Design, develop, and administer databases and web applications for IVR and call center software. Build cloud-based integrations, write and maintain SQL, and participate in call center analytics system development and integration.

Design, develop, optimize, and support database solutions using T-SQL. Build and maintain stored procedures, views, functions, and conversion scripts. Support ERP conversions, troubleshoot performance and integration issues, enforce data management best practices, and collaborate with technical and business teams throughout development, deployment, and change management.

Lead design, automation, and maintenance of cloud-based database infrastructure (primarily SQL Server and MySQL). Improve reliability with monitoring, HA/DR, automation, troubleshooting, on-call support, and mentoring of junior engineers while collaborating across teams.

Seeking a Junior to Mid-Level APEX/Database Developer to design and develop database schemas and APEX applications, ensuring they meet business needs with clear communication.

The Database Engineer designs, optimizes, and evolves MySQL databases in high-volume settings, ensuring performance and reliability while collaborating with engineering and analytics teams.

Operate and automate large-scale data plane services (Cassandra, Elasticsearch/OpenSearch, Kafka, etc.), build infrastructure for a devops model, troubleshoot production incidents, and ensure petabyte-scale data is secure, available, and efficiently managed.

Support and improve reliability, scalability, and performance of large-scale databases across cloud and on-prem. Build automation, Kubernetes operators, GitOps workflows, and tooling in Go or Python; implement observability, capacity planning, failover, backups, schema migrations, and self-healing systems; partner with application teams and leverage AI to improve operations and engineering productivity.

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.

Administer, secure, tune, and manage lifecycle of enterprise Oracle databases supporting mission-critical DoD applications. Implement STIG-compliant security, backup/recovery, CI/CD-integrated migration scripts, cloud-based Oracle support (AWS), and database modernization alongside DevSecOps and Agile teams.

Design, support, and optimize data systems for environmental research. Manage PostgreSQL databases, write efficient SQL, automate workflows with Python, implement CI/CD using GitLab/GitHub, and deploy/scale services on AWS (EC2, S3, RDS). Ensure data integrity, performance, and reliable delivery across cloud and hybrid environments while collaborating with federal stakeholders and technical teams.

Design, support, and optimize PostgreSQL-based data systems for USGS; write efficient SQL, manage large datasets, automate workflows with Python, implement CI/CD using GitLab/GitHub, and deploy/scale databases on AWS (EC2, S3, RDS) to ensure data integrity, performance, and operational reliability.

Lead architecture, modernization, and engineering of enterprise GCP relational database platforms (Cloud SQL, AlloyDB, Spanner). Drive migrations, automation (IaC/Terraform), performance tuning, backup/recovery, monitoring, cost optimization and database governance. Integrate AI/ML capabilities for observability, anomaly detection, and automated operations while mentoring engineers and partnering with application, DevOps, and architecture teams.

Design, build, and maintain ETL processes to move and transform IRS data into Sybase IQ. Optimize and monitor ETL performance, ensure data quality, troubleshoot shell/SQL errors, document processes, and collaborate with data architects, analysts, and stakeholders to support the Compliance Data Warehouse.

The Mongo Database Engineer will design and implement database solutions, enhance security, lead automation processes, and optimize database structures, contributing to national security initiatives.

As a Staff Database Engineer, you'll design and oversee the architecture, performance, and reliability of database systems, primarily PostgreSQL and MySQL, while also enhancing automation, observability, and incident response efforts.

Implement and optimize Oracle database structures for identity data, focusing on schema development, performance tuning, security compliance, and collaboration with integration teams.

Serve as the technical SME for Vector AI databases, supporting sales with architecture, demos, POCs, competitive analysis, and mentoring SEs. Map customer AI/ML needs to Actian solutions and collaborate with sales, product, engineering, and customer success to close enterprise deals.

Lead audits and performance tuning of large SQL Server environments: analyze schemas, stored procedures, indexes, and query plans; refactor queries and procedures; resolve locks/deadlocks; implement indexing/partitioning; use SQL Profiler, Extended Events and DMVs; define database governance and coach developers on best practices.

Ensure production database services are scalable, resilient, high-performing, and secure. Participate in on-call rotation, monitoring, alerting, incident response, disaster recovery drills, and post-mortems. Automate operational tasks, design reliability/security controls, build observability tooling, capacity forecasts, and collaborate with developers and security to improve hybrid cloud vector and NoSQL database platforms.

Maintain, optimize, and evolve InvoiceCloud's production database systems. Troubleshoot incidents, tune queries and indexes, design efficient schema and stored procedures, automate operational tasks, and contribute to Azure-based database architecture and scalability improvements.