We need a SQL engineer for one of our teams. This person would be considered a "senior engineer" but solely focused on SQL (rather than full stack/frontend/backend).
Here are the requirements:
8+ years of overall IT experience and 6+ years with SQL
- Strong proficiency with SQL and its variation among popular databases
- Experience with some of the modern relational databases
- Skilled at optimizing large, complicated SQL statements
- Knowledge of best practices when dealing with relational databases
- Capable of configuring popular database engines and orchestrating clusters as necessary
- Ability to plan resource requirements from high-level specifications
- Capable of troubleshooting common database issues
- Familiar with tools that can aid with profiling and optimizing server resource usage
- Proficient understanding of code versioning tools such as Git, Mercurial, or SVN