SurveyMonkey

SurveyMonkey

Senior Database Engineer II

Ottawa · Senior · Full-time

Sponsorship not specifiedDetected 5 days ago
PythonBashPowerShellFull-Stack DevelopmentSQLNoSQLPostgreSQLMySQLDynamoDBVector DatabasesAWSCloud PlatformsTerraformAnsibleCI/CDLinuxData EngineeringData ScienceResearchCommunication

About the role

  • With built-in research expertise and AI-powered technology, it's like having a team of expert researchers at your fingertips.
  • Discover how at surveymonkey.com http://surveymonkey.com.

Responsibilities

  • We combine powerful capabilities with intuitive design, effectively serving every use case, from customer experience to employee engagement, market research to payment and registration forms.
  • Trusted by millions-from startups to Fortune 500 companies-SurveyMonkey helps teams gather insights and information that inspire better decisions, create experiences people love, and drive business growth.

Requirements

  • You are passionate about data, have strong hands-on expertise in both SQL Server and MySQL, and thrive in a collaborative engineering environment.
  • 7+ years of experience managing high-performing databases in production environments
  • 5+ years of hands-on experience with strong SQL query skills, writing complex, highly optimized queries across large datasets for both administration and application data.
  • 3+ years of hands-on experience designing, optimizing, and managing PostgreSQL databases in production environments.
  • Strong expertise in SQL Server (clustering, high availability groups, vertical and horizontal partitioning) and MySQL (replication, partitioning, indexing, stored procedures, and performance tuning)
  • 3+ years of experience writing and maintaining Terraform configurations to provision and manage cloud infrastructure.
  • Hands-on experience with one or more vector databases such as Pinecone, Milvus, Qdrant, or pgvector.
  • 2+ years of experience with cloud-based database solutions (AWS RDS, Aurora, DynamoDB, etc.)
  • Experience with ETL development and highly available database architectures in both on-prem and cloud environments
  • Experience with Windows and/or Unix systems administration

Nice to have

  • Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science or a related field
  • AWS certification is a plus
  • Experience with configuration management systems (Ansible is a plus)

Compensation

  • The base pay provided for this position ranges from CAD $95,200.00 / year - $119,000.00 / year depending on the geographic market and assuming a full-time schedule.

Company info

  • SurveyMonkey is the world's most popular platform for surveys and forms, built for business-loved by users.

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