Senior Database Developer

the Lynden Family of Companies•SeaTac, WA

11d•Hybrid

About The Position

Lynden Incorporated is seeking a Senior Database Developer to join our SeaTac-based team. In this role, you’ll help design, optimize, and maintain enterprise-grade databases that support critical applications, and you’ll bring technical expertise, strong collaboration skills, and a mindset focused on continuous improvement to advance modernization, cloud adoption, automation, and data governance across the organization. This position is not safety sensitive. Are you awesome? We’re hiring! Join a stable, family‑owned company with 40+ years of no layoffs and a collaborative, team-focused culture. Who we are: Lynden is a family-owned transportation and logistics company helping customers balance speed and budget with shipping via air, land, or sea. Our corporate office, home to 190 employees, with 95 in IT, supports 15 Lynden companies and more than 2,500 employees. With 40+ years of no layoffs, we offer you long-term stability in a career that’s as rewarding as it is an adventure!

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree (technology emphasis).
7+ years of experience in database development, engineering, or data architecture.
Proven database engineering experience (data modeling, performance tuning, SQL/DDL scripting).
Familiarity with data catalogs and metadata management.
Strong understanding of data privacy and compliance frameworks.
Experience tuning SQL queries and designing transactional workflows.
Strong communication, problem-solving, and documentation skills.

Nice To Haves

GitHub Actions or similar CI/CD tools.

Responsibilities

Design and optimize SQL and NoSQL databases for scalability and performance.
Design relational and non-relational models aligned to business needs.
Create, version, and manage DDL scripts for schema changes and deployments
Partner with developers to optimize queries, indexes, and execution plans.
Design transaction strategies that ensure integrity and consistency across systems.
Analyze workloads to find tuning and refactoring opportunities.
Build and maintain GitHub Actions workflows for deployments and schema migrations.
Integrate database changes into CI/CD with safe rollout and rollback strategies.
Improve automation standards across the Applications Team and DevOps workflows.
Build and maintain an enterprise data catalog (metadata, lineage, and classifications).
Ensure data assets are well-described, standardized, and reusable across teams.
Tag and classify data assets for compliance (PII, GDPR, FCI, CUI, HCI).
Align database practices with governance, privacy, and security policies.
Collaborate with architects, developers, BI, security, and business stakeholders.
Advise on database best practices for modernization, cloud adoption, and AI workloads.
Participate in design reviews, architecture discussions, and system planning.
Document models, standards, procedures, transactions, and governance policies.
Maintain versioning, change history, and deployment docs in source control.
Help define and improve database development standards across the Applications Team.

Benefits

Discretionary bonus program
Competitive wages + annual wage reviews
Cell Allowance: $10 per month
Two medical plans starting as low as $0/month
Medical, dental and vision for your family for $222/month (HDHP)
Flexible Spending Account (FSA) or Health Savings Account (HSA)
Mental health programs (in-office and virtual)
17 days Paid Time Off a year + additional paid extended leave. PTO increases with tenure
8 paid holidays each year
401(k) with company match + additional contributions
No-cost Employee assistance program, life insurance, long term disability and AD&D
Tuition Reimbursement program
Mass transit reimbursement
Career advancement through internal promotions