Lead Database & Data Platform Engineer

Lead Database & Data Platform Engineer

• $60k – $96k • No equity
• |Remote ( Brazil )
• |7 years of exp
• |Full Time

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Brazil

Remote Work Policy Remote only

Company Location

Claymont

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RelocationNot Allowed

Skills

• SQL

• MySQL

• Microsoft SQL Server

• AWS/EC2/ELB/S3/DynamoDB

• AWS

• Claude

About the job

Requirements

• Must-haves

• 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

• What makes you stand out

• Most recent SQL Server upgrade performed, stated on the profile: source and target versions, in-place or side-by-side, year, and the Windows Server version pairing

• Why this role exists:

• This position reports into the Platform team and serves as the top technical authority on data for both engineering groups

• The pressing need is someone able to jump straight into a time-sensitive OS upgrade ahead of year-end

• The broader mandate is bringing the estate to a standard that holds up with customers, auditors, and the insurer

• The company was formed through a merger and runs two separate stacks, with no single owner accountable for the estate to date

• We're looking for someone motivated to solve this at the root rather than apply a temporary fix, with the mandate to do so

• Nice-to-haves

• 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

• What you will work on

• 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

• Assess the current estate: inventory, backup and recovery posture, high availability configuration, monitoring and alerting gaps, access model, capacity, and cost.

• Produce a written state-of-the-estate and a prioritized remediation plan

• Near-term priority

• 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

• 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

• Full ownership of administration, operation,s and optimization for all relational databases: SQL Server (self-managed on EC2) and MySQL (RDS)

• Performance tuning, monitoring and alerting, backup and recovery, high availability and failover, security and access management, capacity and cost

• Maturing the estate

• 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

• Own data observability: monitoring, alerting, and capacity forecasting against agreed service levels

• Establish backup and DR testing, access governan,ce and change control that stand up to SOC 2 and our cyber insurer

• Produce and maintain a data platform roadmap covering both relational stacks, Snowfl,ake and the analytics estate

• Set direction for the data engineering team on database matters

• Secondary

• Snowflake administration, including usage and cost monitoring

• Database development — stored procedures, schema design, query optimization

• Data warehouse and data engineering work alongside the data platform team; support internal and external analytics and BI

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