Agiloft-posted 4 months ago
Senior
251-500 employees

As a Database Performance Software Engineer, you will work with a fast-moving, ambitious team, building our data-centric, AI-driven Contract Lifecycle Management software solutions. You will work closely with backend engineers, DevOps, and product teams to ensure our relational (SQL) and non-relational data layer scales and maintains low latency, high availability, and cost efficiency while supporting rapid growth. This is a hands-on engineering role where you’ll analyze query performance, design schema improvements and schema extensions, federate and aggregate data sources into a cohesive and coherent data layer to support application services, build monitoring tools, and guide best practices across the engineering organization.

  • Work with cross-functional agile team members throughout the software development lifecycle to conceptualize, ideate, prototype, build, monitor and maintain a high-quality foundational data layer for the platform architecture
  • Analyze and optimize queries, indexes, and schema design for database use, including PostgreSQL, MySQL, DynamoDB and vector databases
  • Partner with backend engineers (Python, Java) to design efficient data models and reduce costly query patterns
  • Monitor and troubleshoot database performance, reliability, and availability issues
  • Implement load testing, benchmarking, and stress testing strategies
  • Collaborate with DevOps to optimize database deployment, scaling, and failover strategies on AWS (RDS Aurora EC2, S3, CloudWatch)
  • Guide engineering teams in writing performance-conscious SQL and ORM queries
  • Stay ahead of emerging database technologies and recommend solutions that improve scalability and cost efficiency
  • Other duties as assigned
  • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or related field (or equivalent experience)
  • Minimum of 7 years of professional experience as software engineer or data architect
  • Experience building modern, cloud-native, multi-tenant applications using cloud hosted databases
  • Proficiency in building data centric applications and tools in Python and Java
  • Interest in building enterprise software with deep customer empathy, taking pride in contributing to a world class end-to-end user experience
  • Strong problem-solving, collaboration, teamwork and communication skills
  • Eagerness to learn and adapt to new technologies and tools
  • Deep understanding of SQL databases, query optimization, and database indexing
  • Techniques and tooling for monitoring and improving database performance
  • Change management methodologies for incremental enhancement and change of data schemas, including versioning and rollback
  • Version control systems (Git)
  • CI/CD tools such as GitHub Actions or similar
  • Cloud platforms (AWS preferred)
  • Familiarity with observability tools (Prometheus, Grafana)
  • Modern software development lifecycle on an agile product team environment
  • Comfortable working with Infrastructure as Code in AWS
  • Expertise using Java-centric data libraries and ORM (JPA, Hibernate)
  • Floating holidays
  • Quarterly wellness day
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