Database Engineer

Position: DATABASE ENGINEER

Camden
2 Aquarium Drive
Suite 400
Camden, NJ 08103, USA

US Cold owns and operates one of the most complex temperature-controlled logistics networks in North America. Every day, our systems coordinate the storage and movement of food on a national scale across a network of state-of-the-art distribution centers, including multiple highly automated warehouse facilities. We continue to advance our core warehouse and logistics platforms. Our current focus is on modular, event-driven, API-first and cloud architecture.

We continue to enhance reliability and accelerate engineering productivity by strengthening our SRE and AI practices. This is a large investment in innovation to continue to drive operational excellence at our facilities. If you want to build durable systems that operate in the physical world on a scale, this is that opportunity.
The Job Details The Database Engineer owns the health, performance, and evolution of the database platforms behind US Cold Storage's warehouse management systems — both the existing Oracle databases and the PostgreSQL and MongoDB Atlas systems powering our next-gen microservices platform in Azure. You'll partner with Infrastructure, Dev Ops, and Software Engineering to design, implement, and scale database systems while reducing operational toil through CI/CD.

You'll also provide real-time support for mission-critical workloads where downtime translates directly to disrupted shipments.
Responsibilities

• Monitor, patch, and maintain our existing Oracle database infrastructure on OCI, ensuring uptime and reliability for production workloads
• Tune and optimize Oracle performance through query plan analysis, indexing strategies, and schema-level improvements to meet performance standards
• Architect, deploy, and manage our modern cloud-based database systems in Azure, including PostgreSQL and MongoDB in support of our modernization initiative
• Own HA/DR posture across intra-region and cross-region failure scenarios, including defining and validating RPO/RTO targets with the business
• Partner with Dev Ops, Development, and Infrastructure teams to ensure database architecture supports application performance targets while managing cloud spend
• Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines in Git Hub Actions and Jenkins to automate schema migrations, environment provisioning, and routine operational tasks
• Implement and own database observability — query performance monitoring, capacity forecasting, and cost optimization across cloud platforms
• Provide real-time production support for mission-critical database workloads, including on-call participation and incident response

Technical Environment

• Azure and OCI Multi-Region Infrastructure
• Oracle (OCI), PostgreSQL and MongoDB Atlas (Azure)
• Infrastructure as Code using Terraform and Ansible
• Git Hub Actions and Jenkins for CI/CD
• Observability using Dynatrace and Azure Monitor

What We’re Looking For

• 5+ years of experience as a DBA or Database Engineer, with strong proficiency in Oracle and PostgreSQL
• Fluency in PL/SQL, including designing and optimizing performant queries
• Experience with No
  
  SQL/JSON databases a plus
• Proven ability to diagnose database-related application issues including performance bottlenecks, locking and replication delays
• Experience managing database infrastructure in the cloud (Azure preferred)
• Experience deploying database systems using Infrastructure as Code (Terraform or similar) and CI/CD tooling (Jenkins, Git Hub Actions or similar)
• Track record building monitoring and alerting for critical database operations (Dynatrace or Azure Monitor a plus)
• Strong written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to tailor the message to technical and non-technical audiences
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field—or equivalent experience

Why This Role Is Different

• You will deploy, monitor and tune multiple database types (Oracle, PostgreSQL, MongoDB) across multiple clouds (Azure and OCI)
• You will use AI-assisted tools (Dynatrace, Azure Monitor, Copilot) to monitor and optimize performance while forecasting and managing cost
• Your decisions will have an immediate impact on our teams, our systems, and the warehouses…