What are the responsibilities and job description for the Senior Database Developer position at Lynden Incorporated?
Lynden Incorporated is seeking a Senior Database Developer to join our SeaTac-based team. In this role, you’ll help design, optimize, and maintain enterprise-grade databases that support critical applications, and you’ll bring technical expertise, strong collaboration skills, and a mindset focused on continuous improvement to advance modernization, cloud adoption, automation, and data governance across the organization. This position is not safety sensitive.
Are you awesome? We’re hiring! Join a stable, family owned company with 40 years of no layoffs and a collaborative, team-focused culture.
Who we are:
Lynden is a family-owned transportation and logistics company helping customers balance speed and budget with shipping via air, land, or sea. Our corporate office, home to 190 employees, with 95 in IT, supports 15 Lynden companies and more than 2,500 employees. With 40 years of no layoffs, we offer you long-term stability in a career that’s as rewarding as it is an adventure!
What You Will Be Doing:
Data Architecture & Modeling
All employment offers are contingent on a satisfactory background check and pre employment drug screen, excluding marijuana where prohibited by law. Random drug testing does not include marijuana for non safety sensitive positions in Washington
Lynden Incorporated is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate based on any protected status.
Are you awesome? We’re hiring! Join a stable, family owned company with 40 years of no layoffs and a collaborative, team-focused culture.
Who we are:
Lynden is a family-owned transportation and logistics company helping customers balance speed and budget with shipping via air, land, or sea. Our corporate office, home to 190 employees, with 95 in IT, supports 15 Lynden companies and more than 2,500 employees. With 40 years of no layoffs, we offer you long-term stability in a career that’s as rewarding as it is an adventure!
What You Will Be Doing:
Data Architecture & Modeling
- Design and optimize SQL and NoSQL databases for scalability and performance.
- Design relational and non-relational models aligned to business needs.
- Create, version, and manage DDL scripts for schema changes and deployments
- Partner with developers to optimize queries, indexes, and execution plans.
- Design transaction strategies that ensure integrity and consistency across systems.
- Analyze workloads to find tuning and refactoring opportunities.
- Build and maintain GitHub Actions workflows for deployments and schema migrations.
- Integrate database changes into CI/CD with safe rollout and rollback strategies.
- Improve automation standards across the Applications Team and DevOps workflows.
- Build and maintain an enterprise data catalog (metadata, lineage, and classifications).
- Ensure data assets are well-described, standardized, and reusable across teams.
- Tag and classify data assets for compliance (PII, GDPR, FCI, CUI, HCI).
- Align database practices with governance, privacy, and security policies.
- Collaborate with architects, developers, BI, security, and business stakeholders.
- Advise on database best practices for modernization, cloud adoption, and AI workloads.
- Participate in design reviews, architecture discussions, and system planning.
- Document models, standards, procedures, transactions, and governance policies.
- Maintain versioning, change history, and deployment docs in source control.
- Help define and improve database development standards across the Applications Team.
- Discretionary bonus program
- Competitive wages annual wage reviews
- Cell Allowance: $10 per month
- Two medical plans starting as low as $0/month
- Medical, dental and vision for your family for $222/month (HDHP)
- Flexible Spending Account (FSA) or Health Savings Account (HSA)
- Mental health programs (in-office and virtual)
- 17 days Paid Time Off a year additional paid extended leave. PTO increases with tenure
- 8 paid holidays each year
- 401(k) with company match additional contributions
- No-cost Employee assistance program, life insurance, long term disability and AD&D
- Tuition Reimbursement program
- Mass transit reimbursement
- Career advancement through internal promotions
- Bachelor’s degree (technology emphasis).
- 7 years of experience in database development, engineering, or data architecture.
- Proven database engineering experience (data modeling, performance tuning, SQL/DDL scripting).
- Preferred: GitHub Actions or similar CI/CD tools.
- Familiarity with data catalogs and metadata management.
- Strong understanding of data privacy and compliance frameworks.
- Experience tuning SQL queries and designing transactional workflows.
- Strong communication, problem-solving, and documentation skills.
- Flexible start times with established core hours to maximize team overlap and collaboration
- Hybrid schedule after completion of training: 2 days onsite and 3 days remote per week
- Business needs may occasionally require additional onsite work, including on normally remote days
- Participate in the 24x7 on-call rotation (about once per year)
- We’re ethical and human. We don’t get everything perfect, but we try hard. When we miss the mark, we own it and make it right.
- We work as a collaborative team built on respect and support.
- Our casual office includes an on-site gym, free parking and easy access to Link Light Rail.
All employment offers are contingent on a satisfactory background check and pre employment drug screen, excluding marijuana where prohibited by law. Random drug testing does not include marijuana for non safety sensitive positions in Washington
Lynden Incorporated is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate based on any protected status.
Salary : $10 - $222