Database Engineer

We're Hiring: Database Engineer (MariaDB / SQL)

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About Us

SHJ International

Database Engineer

What You'll Do

• Design and maintain highly scalable relational databases.
• Build efficient database schemas for enterprise applications.
• Optimize complex SQL queries and stored procedures.
• Design indexing strategies for high-performance applications.
• Monitor database performance and eliminate bottlenecks.
• Implement replication, backups, disaster recovery, and high availability.
• Tune databases handling millions of records.
• Work closely with software engineers to improve application performance.
• Design partitioning and archival strategies for large datasets.
• Manage database security, permissions, and auditing.
• Review application database designs before production deployment.
• Troubleshoot production database issues with minimal downtime.
• Support DevOps teams with database deployments and migrations.

Required Skills

• 4+ years of experience as a Database Engineer or DBA.
• Strong expertise in

  MariaDB

  ,

  MySQL

  , or PostgreSQL.
• Excellent SQL query writing and optimization skills.
• Deep understanding of:
• Indexing
• Query execution plans
• Transactions
• Locking
• Deadlock analysis
• Isolation levels
• Experience with database replication and failover.
• Knowledge of backup and recovery strategies.
• Experience designing normalized and denormalized schemas.
• Strong understanding of data integrity and constraints.
• Experience working with high-volume production databases.

Good to Have

• MariaDB MaxScale
• Galera Cluster
• ProxySQL
• Redis
• RabbitMQ
• Docker
• Kubernetes
• AWS / Azure / GCP
• Grafana & Prometheus
• Liquibase or Flyway
• OpenSearch or Elasticsearch
• Spring Boot database optimization

We'd Love Someone Who Understands

• Database architecture
• Multi-tenant applications
• Microservices data design
• Event-driven systems
• High concurrency systems
• Read/write database separation
• Performance tuning
• Database scaling strategies
• Data migration
• Audit logging
• Reporting databases

What Success Looks Like

You'll help us build a database platform capable of supporting:

• Millions of shipment records
• Thousands of concurrent users
• High-performance search
• 247 production availability
• Reliable replication and failover
• Secure enterprise-grade data management

Why Join SHJ International?

• Build a real enterprise SaaS platform from the ground up.
• Work on challenging database architecture problems.
• Modern tech stack with microservices and cloud infrastructure.
• Opportunity to influence system architecture.
• Collaborative engineering culture focused on performance and quality.

Ideal Candidate Profile

how data should be modeled, stored, indexed, replicated, and scaled