Sr. database administrator (dba) / sr. database engineer

Overview

Cal Amp’s K‑12 transportation platform tracks the buses that move ~1 million students every school day across 400+ North American school districts. We run Microsoft SQL Server self-hosted on AWS EC2 — 9 production instances, 600+ customer databases, more than a billion rows of operational data, and growing. (An eventual move to AWS RDS is on the table as a future direction, not a near‑term plan.)

We’re hiring a hands‑on Database Engineer with strong production experience who is ready to grow into architecture, automation, and modern engineering practices.

Responsibilities

What you’ll work on:

Performance — the daily craft. Diagnose and fix slow queries, plan regressions, and locking storms across 9 SQL Server instances supporting customer‑facing operations. You’ll inherit a decade of accumulated SQL — your first 90 days are about understanding it before re‑architecting it. Reporting replica architecture. We need to separate analytical workload from o...