Database Engineer

Your new company 

For our client from Kraków, we are looking for a Database Engineer to join the newly established team.

Employees work fully from the office with the possibility to work remotely only occasionally.

Your new role 

We are looking for somebody with database experience, both in terms of helping support databases in dev, test, and prod, as well as advising other engineers on database best practices. This position is ideal for the candidate who seeks a small, friendly company culture where one can work closely with smart and highly productive people. Getting to work with cutting-edge software and hardware to develop outstanding consumer products is the icing on the cake.

Responsibilities:

• Gather and analyse metrics from various SQL environments and proactively identify inefficiencies and introduce improvements.
• Assist teams in adopting database best practices and support the introduction of new features.
• Assist in planning out the overall database roadmap, working with a mix of on-premises and cloud databases.
• Help evaluate and propose new data storage technologies in architecture, as well as introduce tooling and best practices around these.
• Being involved with infrastructure maintenance.
• Engage in the research, evaluation, and application of new technologies and methodologies to solve challenging problems.
• Work hard and be flexible: we have quick development cycles, evolving requirements, and lots of cross-team collaboration.
• Exercise good judgment. Know when to work quickly, and when to build a robust solution. Your work will be used by multiple business units, so you will need to consider many use cases when developing.

What you'll need to succeed 

• Bachelor’s in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or a related field
• 3+ years of equivalent work experience in software development
• Strong object-oriented programming skills such as: C#, Java, C++, Python
• Expertise with SQL databases, both in terms of schema and application development, and optimisation, monitoring, and management (Microsoft SQL Server a plus)
• Familiarity with database performance analysis (analysing query plans, finding and introducing indexes, DB table design best practices
• Cloud database experiences (e.g. Azure SQL Managed Instances)
• Strong communication skills and experience working across different departments and with stakeholders
• Willingness to be on call to respond to incidents
• Willingness to regularly support production deployments and production maintenance, which can be outside of normal business hours.

What you need to do now 

If you're interested in this role, click 'apply now' to forward an up-to-date copy of your CV, or call us now.

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