Senior Database Engineer

Paylocity is an equal opportunity employer.
Senior Database Engineer
Senior Database Engineers are members of our product teams, responsible for creating, enhancing, and supporting common features. They are responsible for maintaining our critical data stores. Working side-by-side with Product Owners, Software Test Engineers, and Business Stakeholders, they are actively involved in the complete software development life cycle in an agile environment including technical design, hands-on coding, unit testing, integration testing, performance tuning, maintenance, test automation, deploys and database upgrades.
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Who you are:
Engineering is the function that applies principles and techniques of engineering, mathematics, and computer/data science to the design, development, and testing of applications. The Product & Technology engineering family consists of software development, testing, database, DevOps, virtualization & network.

• Enthusiastic about developing the best software available and providing the ultimate customer experience.
• An advocate for continuous improvement of our software development process.
• Interested in staying current by applying new technologies.
• Able to work in a collaborative environment with a willingness to share your ideas.
• Able to work independently on modules and complete tasks with high quality and contribute to high velocity, but unafraid to seek out suggestions from other team member.
• Excited to work on cutting-edge technology.

During the first six months, you will:

• Work on a medium or large project overall within a team/area.
• Work in parallel with peers and often take a leading role on features or refactors.
• Regularly mentor or coach one or more junior database engineers.
• Design standalone systems of moderate complexity, or major new features in existing systems.
• Perform code reviews and provides consistent, useful, constructive feedback.
• Effectively deliver medium or large team projects.
• Recognize and surface risks/unknowns and keep work in line with bigger picture goals.
• Provide input in database design, performance tuning, troubleshooting, error handling and hardware planning.
• Resolve data issues and facilitate data analysis.
• Interested in staying current and proficient on existing emerging relevant database technology through self-study and company/vendor provided training opportunities.

Required Experience:

• Must have 10+ years of database experience.
• Must be adaptable to change and have a willingness to learn.
• Must have a strong sense of curiosity.
• Must commit to their role and take responsibility for their tasks.
• Must be able to work effectively in an agile and team environment.
• Must be effective and creative in problem solving.
• Microsoft SQL Server database experience.
• Experience with SQL Always On and clustering a plus.
• Experience in Performance Tuning, Query Optimization, using related monitoring and troubleshooting tools.
• Utilizing metrics to trend data for performance analysis and capacity planning.
• Responsibility for database SLA.
• Experience with AWS cloud, Mongo Atlas and Amazon Aurora database highly preferred.
• Participation in on-call duties.

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Paylocity is an equal opportunity employer. Paylocity is committed to the full inclusion of all individuals. We comply with federal and state disability laws and make reasonable accommodations for applicants and employees with disabilities. To request reasonable accommodation in the job application or interview process, please contact [email protected]
This role can be performed from any office in the US. The pay range for this position in Colorado is $76,038 - $165,135/yr. However, base pay offered may vary depending on job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. This position is eligible for an annual restricted stock unit grant based on individual performance in addition to a full range of benefits outlined here. This information is provided per the Colorado Equal Pay for Equal Work Act. Base pay information is based on market location.
Applicants should apply via www.paylocity.com/careers