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Senior Database Performance Engineer

EngineerEngineerFull TimeRemoteSeniorTeam 5,001-10,000Since 2002H1B SponsorCompany SiteLinkedIn

Location

United States

Posted

7 days ago

Salary

$100K - $170K / year

Seniority

Senior

Bachelor Degree7 yrs expEnglishMS SQL ServerSQL

Job Description

Senior Database Performance Engineer

AmeriSave Mortgage Corporation

• Stand up and own the monitoring platform, utilizing Query Store across databases, wait-statistics, file-I/O baselines, system health custom Extended Events sessions, and the performance dashboard • Define and continuously tune alerting against established baselines to ensure alarms are trusted and acted upon • Lead incident triage across the database estate • Own the post-incident root-cause review process to drive issues to permanent resolution • Author and maintain operational runbooks and establish a reliable on-call response practice • Diagnose and remediate top resource-consuming and lock-holding queries using Query Store, procedure stats, and execution plan analysis • Identify and resolve CPU pressure, Tempdb contention, memory-grant waits, and I/O bottlenecks via wait statistics and DMVs • Refactor and harden high-impact stored procedures and queries to improve concurrency and reduce contention • Own the index strategy, including usage analysis, fragmentation maintenance standards, and the disciplined evaluation of missing-index recommendations • Own core production operations, including backups, recovery, patching, high availability, capacity planning, and the security baseline • Coordinate broader database initiatives across engineering and reporting teams, reporting status and risk directly to the CIO

Job Requirements

  • 7+ years administering and tuning Microsoft SQL Server in demanding production environments
  • Expert-level execution-plan reading and query rewriting, with deep knowledge of SARGability, set-based design, and parameter-sniffing remediation
  • Hands-on mastery of wait statistics, Query Store, Extended Events, Tempdb internals, and parallelism tuning
  • Demonstrated experience building monitoring and alerting from SQL Server's built-in tooling or enterprise monitoring platforms
  • Proven track record in incident management and root-cause analysis
  • Strong proficiency in T-SQL and automation scripting
  • High-speed internet required for remote work, Cable or Fiber ONLY with the ability to connect via Ethernet. Minimum speeds: 70/30 Mbps (basic), 200-300/35-70 Mbps (shared), 500-1,000/100+ Mbps (heavy use)

Benefits

  • 401(k)
  • Dental insurance
  • Disability insurance
  • Employee discounts
  • Health insurance
  • Life insurance
  • Paid time off
  • 12 paid holidays per year
  • Paid training
  • Referral program
  • Vision insurance

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