- Colorado Springs, Colorado, United States
- Full-time · Senior
- $115K–$140K per year
- 2+ years
The Senior Database Engineer at Bluestaq owns the data systems that move and protect information behind national security decisions — the schemas, pipelines, and datastores our enterprise platform runs on.
Compensation
$115,000—$140,000 USD
Responsibilities
- Own sets of tables, schemas, and data flows end-to-end within a larger product or program
- Design robust relational schemas and data models with sound normalization and denormalization tradeoffs, DDL, and extensive SQL
- Work across SQL and NoSQL datastores (MongoDB, Postgres/RDS, Amazon Athena) following best practices
- Lead the design and delivery of medium-sized data features — new domains, new ingest, or significant schema changes
- Build moderately complex ETL/ingest pipelines with incremental loads, error handling, and validation
Requirements
- High School Diploma/GED
- Associate degree in a related field
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or related field
- Master's degree in a related field
- Nice to have: Relevant certifications (e.g., DBA certifications)