Staff Database Engineer

Overview

Come join the FinTech Reliability Engineering and Infrastructure team in the FinTech Business unit at Intuit. We’re looking for a passionate software engineer to help us scale out infrastructure for 10x growth in our global payroll platform.

Responsibilities

Responsibilities

• Ability to understand monolith-based software systems with complex business logic served to ~500K customers.
• Multi-Platform Administration: Manage, maintain, and optimize large-scale production and non-production database systems across MSSQL, PostgreSQL (Aurora/RDS), and MySQL (Aurora/RDS).
• Independently troubleshoot incoming production and pre-production issues and timely resolve.
• High Availability & DR: Serve as the resident expert for SQL Server Always On/Clustering, Aurora Global Databases, and Patroni clusters to ensure 24/7 uptime and disaster recovery readiness.
• Contribute to infrastructure changes to AWS with deep understanding of AWS services.
• Performance Engineering: Lead performance tuning efforts, including T-SQL/PL/pgSQL query optimization, execution plan reviews, and memory/IO configuration
• Scalability & Architecture: Implement advanced scaling techniques such as database sharding, table partitioning etc.
• Cloud Leadership: Design and contribute to AWS infrastructure changes, leveraging deep knowledge of RDS, EC2, VPC, Security Groups, and Route 53.
• Deployment Automation: Drive "Infrastructure as Code" (IaC) initiatives using CloudFormation, Jenkins, and CI/CD pipelines to automate system commissioning and deployments.
• Migration Excellence: Lead complex database migrations from legacy on-premises systems to AWS Cloud using AWS Data Migration Service (DMS).
• Engage with multiple functional teams to coordinate DB changes with adhering best practices.
• Engage in on-call for production systems and take action for incoming pagers/alerts.
• Project Ownership: Lead projects from design to execution, ensuring stakeholder alignment and taking 100% ownership of production rollouts
• Contribute to major system upgrades, deployment automation, monitoring enhancements and Production changes.
• Ability to create operational Runbooks, contribute to how-to articles, and gain domain knowledge to drive changes in the team.
• Strong ability to handle high-pressure incident management scenarios.
• Exceptional communication skills for documenting technical strategies and reporting to cross-functional stakeholders.
• Flexibility to support planned weekend activities and out-of-hours maintenance window
  
  

Qualifications

• Bachelor or Master’s degree in computer science or a related technical field.
• Tenure: 10 years of hands-on experience as a Database Administrator (DBA) in high-availability, multi-terabyte production environments.
• Education: Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, IT (MCA, BE, or MSc IT), or a related technical field.
• Certifications (Preferred): Recognized RDBMS certifications such as OCP (Oracle), MCDBA (SQL Server), or Microsoft Certified: Azure Database Administrator Associate. AWS certification will be more preferred
• Technical Skills:
• Database Engines: Expert-level proficiency in MS SQL Server, PostgreSQL (EDB, Aurora), and MySQL. -(Anyone DB must)
• Cloud Platforms: Advanced hands-on experience with AWS Cloud services (RDS, Aurora, EC2, CloudFormation, DMS).
• Scripting & Programming: Proficiency in scripting for automation using PowerShell or Python. Familiarity with Java, C , or AI experience
• Observability Tools: Experience with monitoring and performance tools such asWavefront, Splunk, pgAnalyze, and AWS-native monitoring.
• Modern Infrastructure: Knowledge of Docker and Kubernetes (preferred).
• Additional experience with Oracle and Oracle GoldenGate is a significant advantage.
  

Intuit provides a competitive compensation package with a strong pay for performance rewards approach. This position will be eligible for a cash bonus, equity rewards and benefits, in accordance with our applicable plans and programs (see more about our compensation and benefits at Intuit®: Careers | Benefits). Pay offered is based on factors such as job-related knowledge, skills, experience, and work location. To drive ongoing fair pay for employees, Intuit conducts regular comparisons across categories of ethnicity and gender. The expected base pay range for this position is:

Bay Area California $ 197,000- 266,500