Senior Database Engineer II

Title: Senior Database Engineer II Location: Remote

Location: Remote Employment: Full time

Job Overview: We are seeking a Senior Database Engineer to join our dynamic team of 100+ software engineers, designers, project managers, and specialists who are passionate about building innovative, high-quality solutions. Our work spans a wide range of impactful and forward-thinking technologies, including:

• Advanced algorithms for computer-adaptive testing
• Highly scalable, high-performance distributed systems
• Comprehensive learning management systems
• Universally accessible user interfaces
• AI-driven scoring and assessment tools

As a Senior Database Engineer, you will drive the design, development, and optimization of database systems that power mission-critical, high-transaction applications. You will ensure data integrity, performance, and scalability within modern cloud environments and microservice-based architectures. Acting as a Subject Matter Expert (SME), you will collaborate closely with engineering and DevOps teams to shape and advance our data architecture and strategy in AWS.

Job Responsibilities:

• Develop state of the art database solutions to meet the stringent performance, scalability and integrity needs of high transaction systems
• Design database schema based on data modeling of business requirements and entities
• Development work will involve writing stored procedures, functions, views, triggers, constraints, etc.
• Create deployment and rollback scripts for all database objects manually or auto generated
• Analyze access patterns and propose the best combination of indexes, constraints, foreign keys, and queries
• Troubleshoot performance problems and propose short-term fixes and long-term solutions
• Work with Architects and drive developers in the future evolution of the data layer researching options and developing prototypes before eventual introduction into the tech stack
• Stay current with evolving databases, AWS, microservices, and cloud-native technologies; prototype new tools/features for adoption.

Job Requirements:

• B.S. in Computer Science (or related field) and 5+ years related experience or M.S. Degree and 3+yrs of experience.
• 5+ years of hands-on SQL Server development experience
• Expert knowledge of all aspects of SQL Server including the ability to write and deploy effective triggers, stored procedures and user defined functions
• Authoritative understanding of SQL Server concurrency features, transactions, and locking; Excellent data modeling and schema design skills, including normalization and de-normalization
• Thorough understanding of best practices for database maintenance, including index and file management, backups, failure recovery, database defragmentation, documentation; Ability to analyze disk space requirements and hardware utilization, automate error notification
• Basic SQL Server administration skills, such as backups, restores, taking and reverting snapshots, user/role security, access permissions, etc.
• Experience operating SQL Server in AWS: Amazon RDS for SQL Server, RDS Custom, or SQL Server on EC2.
• Familiarity with AWS microservices architecture: designing databases to support a microservice-based application in AWS.
• Experience optimizing data access from microservices (e.g. minimizing cross-service latency, designing efficient APIs, minimizing coupling).
• Knowledge of containerization (Docker), orchestration (Kubernetes, AWS ECS/EKS) in microservices context.

To learn more about our organization and the exciting work we do, visit Cambium Assessment.

Remote First Work Environment

Our Remote First approach gives employees the flexibility and trust they need to effectively balance work with life. It creates a culture in which all employees are valued and where success is measured in results. It allows us to work collaboratively, inclusively and for greater positive impact, regardless of our individual locations.

If you will be working remotely, either occasionally or on a permanent basis, you must have a reliable internet connection through a cable or fiber-optic broadband service with minimum speeds of 10 Mbps download and 5 Mbps upload.

The successful candidate will be expected to actively participate in video-based interviews during the recruiting process and ongoing virtual meetings with their camera on, as part of their role. To maintain confidentiality and ensure a fair evaluation process, the use of note-taking tools, reference materials, or AI-powered tools (including generative AI, language models, or similar technologies) during interviews or other selection activities is prohibited unless prior written approval has been obtained from the People Experience team. If you require an exception for medical, accessibility, or other reasons, please contact your Talent Acquisition team member to discuss accommodations in advance.

As part of our Remote-First benefits, Cambium offers reimbursement to help cover the cost of setting up your home or remote office.

An Equal Opportunity Employer

We are dedicated to fostering a culture that celebrates unique backgrounds, ideas, and experiences. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without discrimination on the basis of race, color, age, religion, sex (including pregnancy, gender, gender identity/expression, or sexual orientation), national origin, protected veteran status, disability, or genetic information (including family medical history).

We will provide reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities. You may request an accommodation during the recruiting process with your Talent Acquisition team member.