Principal Database Automation Engineer - DriveWealth
New York City, NY
About the Job
DriveWealth, the pioneer of fractional equities trading and embedded investing, is a visionary technology company that empowers more than 100 partners around the world to engage their customers by placing the markets in the palm of their hand. We believe the future is fractional, transactional and mobile. Every mobile device should be a gateway to accessing investing and savings products, services, advice, and assistance for global citizens of all ages, wealth stages, and levels of financial expertise. DriveWealth's unparalleled consultative support and cloud-based, industrial strength technology platform allow partners to seamlessly offer branded investing experiences to drive customer acquisition, loyalty, retention, and revenue growth. DriveWealth's commitment to continuous evolution and innovation makes it the partner of choice for powering the future of investing.
Completing a Series D raise in 2021, DriveWealth's mission is to democratize investing globally by working with partners to invent new ways to use its API-based technology to provide emerging investors with cutting-edge embedded experiences, offer first-time access to U.S. markets, and the ability to begin investing with as little as $1. DriveWealth is committed to empowering consumers around the world to become owners by delivering the most modern brokerage infrastructure, unparalleled industry expertise, and a culture of continued evolution.
About the Role
The Principal Database Automation Engineer is responsible for all of DriveWealth's database platforms, ensuring high levels of data availability and performance. This hands-on role is responsible for advancing and improving the backbone of DriveWealth through automation, monitoring, maintaining, and advancing our database systems. The ideal candidate is a database expert with knowledge of multiple databases: Microsoft SQL Server, Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL, and Babelfish for Aurora PostgreSQL among other platforms. We seek someone who thrives on solving and scaling database challenges and thus has exceptional attention to detail and values simplicity over complexity - both in design and communication.
What You'll Do
- Design, build, and maintain databases to ensure high levels of data availability and performance.
- Identify opportunities to eliminate or automate the remediation of recurring issues to improve the overall operational stability of software applications and systems.
- Ensure database capacities are available to meet our scaling projections.
- Set and maintain database standards.
- Manage database access.
- Performance tuning of database systems.
- Install, upgrade, and manage database applications.
- Diagnose and troubleshoot database errors.
- Recommend and implement emerging database technologies.
- Provide expert guidance to our architecture teams as they build applications using various databases.
- Create automation for repeating database tasks.
- Be available for on-call support as needed.
What You'll Need
- At least 5+ years' experience in a principal DBA role with at least 15 years of overall IT experience.
- Proven experience with automation and scripting technologies especially using Infrastructure-as-code (IAC) using Terraform.
- Strong command of SSIS, SSRS, SQL, and SQL server tools and TSQL development.
- Strong experience with AWS RDS platforms like Babelfish and Aurora.
- Expert knowledge of database security, storage, partitioning, backup and recovery, and performance monitoring standards
- Solid understanding of agile methodologies such as CI/CD, Applicant Resiliency, and Security
- Understanding of relational and dimensional data modeling
- Python/ PowerShell/ Unix shell scripting skills
- Experience working with AWS cloud tech, storage, cloud security, and governance tools.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills
- Impeccable attention to detail
- Experience with a 24x7, highly-available architecture.
Bonus Points
- Financial services experience.
- Experience with NoSQL databases, e.g. dynamo DB
US Benefits
- Insurance – Medical, Dental, Vision, Life, LTD & STD. HSA and FSA options.
- Unlimited PTO
- 401k plan
- Most roles have flexible working hours and work-from-home
- Continuing education and conference reimbursement
- Fitness/Wellbeing reimbursement
- Lunch program, snacks, and beverages available in the office
Applicants must be authorized to work for any employer in the U.S. DriveWealth is unable to sponsor or take over sponsorship of an employment Visa at this time.
Compensation
Compensation package offerings are based on candidate experience and technical qualifications, as it relates to the role. These are identified and determined throughout your interviewing experience.
Please note: this role is expected to come into our office on a cadence set by the Hiring Manager/Team.
We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status. We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment. Please contact us to request accommodation.
TO ALL AGENCIES: Please, no phone calls or emails to any employee of DriveWealth outside of the Talent organization. DriveWealth's policy is to only accept resumes from agencies via Greenhouse (ATS). Agencies must have a valid services agreement executed and must have been assigned by the Talent team to a specific requisition. Any resume submitted outside of this process will be deemed the sole property of DriveWealth. In the event a candidate submitted outside of this policy is hired, no fee or payment will be paid.