Senior Database Engineer

Restaurant365 is a SaaS company disrupting the restaurant industry! Our cloud-based platform provides a unique, centralized solution for accounting and back-office operations for restaurants. Restaurant365’s culture is focused on empowering team members to produce top-notch results while elevating their skills. We’re constantly evolving and improving to make sure we are and always will be “Best in Class” ... and we want that for you too!
The Senior Database Engineer will be responsible for all aspects of design, development, delivery, and production support of database solutions. The position will develop and maintain high database development standards, do peer code review, and maintain high code quality. You should be able to collaborate with other team members and lend SME support to business/technology teams as necessary during the SDLC process to ensure robust and scalable solutions. Qualified candidates will demonstrate immediate applicable technical aptitude as well as a propensity for learning new tools and techniques quickly in a fast-paced environment. 

How you'll add value:

• Create and maintain development standards, design, and process flow documents for database development and maintenance. 
• SQL Server and PostgreSQL: Basic DBA fundamentals, updating systems when necessary, and comfortable working with database backups.  
• Working with AWS & Azure cloud services, including Azure SQL, S3, Azure blob and RDS. 
• Immediately provide day-to-day support and maintenance for PostgreSQL, and Microsoft SQL Server 2012/2016/2019 instances. This includes, but is not limited to: administration, analysis, production support, proactive monitoring, troubleshooting, recoverability, failover, security, installation, and design. 
• Work closely with Product Engineering and DevOps teams on improving code deployments, automate reactive procedures and promote rapid response to database issues. 
• Monitor ongoing capacity and implement design and architecture changes as needed to improve global availability, while being cost-conscious. 
• Participate in bi-weekly after-hours release window. 
• Participate in on-call rotation, including be available for escalations off-hours. 
• Database development: develop and maintain high database development standards; do code review/s and ensure high code quality; work with business/technology teams to support database development, including fixing performance issues; ensure integrity of Production Master Branch. 
• Evaluate and advise on database software purchases.  
• Other duties as assigned.

What you'll need to be successful in this role:

• Bachelor’s Degree in applicable field or equivalent years of related experience. 
• 8+ yrs. of database engineering experience. 
• Naturally detail-oriented, strong organizational skills, exceptional communication skills. 
• Excel in a fast-paced, continually changing, dynamic environment. 
• Keeps a strong client focus in executing all functions …