Database Engineer

Staff Database Engineer – Intuit

Location: Mountain View, CA

Join the Fin Tech Reliability Engineering and Infrastructure team in Intuit’s Fin Tech Business unit. We’re seeking a passionate software engineer to scale infrastructure for 10x growth on our global payroll platform.

• Understand monolith-based software systems with complex business logic for ~500K customers.
• Manage, maintain, and optimize large-scale production and non-production database systems across MSSQL, Postgre
  
  SQL (Aurora/RDS), and MySQL (Aurora/RDS).
• Independently troubleshoot production and pre-production issues and resolve in timely fashion.
• Serve as subject matter expert for high-availability and disaster recovery: SQL Server Always On/Clustering, Aurora Global Databases, and Patroni clusters.
• Contribute to AWS infrastructure improvements using deep knowledge of AWS services.
• Lead performance tuning: T‑SQL/PL/pgSQL query optimization, execution plan reviews, memory/IO configuration.
• Implement scaling techniques such as database sharding, table partitioning, etc.
• Design and contribute to AWS infra: RDS, EC2, VPC, Security Groups, Route 53.
• Drive IaC initiatives with Cloud Formation, Jenkins, CI/CD pipelines for automation.
• Lead migrations from on‑premises to AWS Cloud using AWS DMS.
• Coordinate DB changes with multiple functional teams, following best practices.
• Participate in on‑call for production systems, handling pagers/alerts.
• Own projects from design to production rollout, ensuring stakeholder alignment.
• Contribute to system upgrades, automation, monitoring enhancements.
• Create operational runbooks, how‑to articles.
• Handle high‑pressure incident management.
• Document technical strategies and report to cross‑functional stakeholders.
• Support planned weekend activities and out‑of‑hours maintenance windows.

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, IT, or related field.
• 10+ years as a Database Administrator in high-availability, multi-terabyte production environments.
• Expertise in MS SQL Server, Postgre
  
  SQL (EDB, Aurora), and MySQL.
• Advanced hands‑on experience with AWS services (RDS, Aurora, EC2, Cloud Formation, DMS).
• Proficiency in scripting for automation (Power Shell, Python). Familiarity with Java, C++, or AI experience.
• Experience with monitoring tools:
  Wavefront, Splunk, pg Analyze, AWS‑native monitoring.
• Knowledge of Docker and Kubernetes preferred.
• Additional experience with Oracle and Oracle Golden Gate considered an advantage.
• Recognized RDBMS certifications such as OCP, MCDBA, Microsoft Certified:
  Azure Database Administrator Associate. AWS certification preferred.

Intuit offers a competitive compensation package aligned with job‑related knowledge, skills, and experience. Eligible for cash bonus, equity, and benefits. Base pay range:
Bay Area, CA $197,000 – $266,500.

Mid‑Senior level

Full‑time

Information Technology

Software Development