Sr. Database Engineer - SQL (Remote)

Join Our Team of Innovators at Disney Entertainment & ESPN Technology

We're seeking a highly skilled Senior Database Engineer - SQL to join our Engineering Services team, where you'll play a critical role in designing, building, and maintaining highly available relational database systems that power our digital media supply chain and consumer-facing products.

About the Role:

In this exciting and fast-paced environment, you'll apply software engineering principles to database engineering and administration, building processes and automation to deliver infrastructure faster, safer, and more consistently. You'll collaborate with cross-functional teams to provide guidance on SQL Server best practices and contribute to the development of groundbreaking products and techniques that shape industry norms.

Key Responsibilities:

• Design, build, and maintain highly available relational database systems operating across multiple cloud and on-premise environments
• Apply software development and automation to deliver database infrastructure, ensuring 24/7/365 availability
• Participate in setting the architectural direction for database platforms and projects, analyzing, designing, and deploying fault-tolerant, distributed, and highly available database infrastructure
• Develop automation and tooling to increase operational efficiency, ensuring system reliability and security
• Provide database expertise through performance tuning, troubleshooting, and administration, and develop, enhance, and adhere to engineering and administration standards

Requirements:

• 5+ years of related work experience with Microsoft SQL Server, Amazon RDS for SQL Server, Azure SQL, and Azure SQL MI
• Fundamental understanding of Microsoft SQL Server database internals and experience working in Agile software development
• Intermediate to advanced level of expertise in one or more programming languages such as Python, Java, or Go
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills and experience designing and deploying fault-tolerant, distributed, and highly available database infrastructure
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a related field

What We Offer:

• Competitive salary and benefits package
• Opportunity to work on groundbreaking products and techniques that shape industry norms
• Collaborative and dynamic work environment with a team of innovators
• Professional development and growth opportunities
• Remote work arrangement

How to Apply:

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