As a Staff Database Engineer at Clearwater Analytics, you will play a pivotal role in shaping the future of the data platform behind a leading investment management SaaS solution. You will contribute handsâon to the evolution of a largeâscale SQL Server environment into a modern, cloudânative AWS ecosystem, creating a secure, scalable, and highâperforming platform for missionâcritical products.
Requirements
- Define and own the strategy, architecture, and long-term roadmap for Clearwaterâs database platforms across on-premises and cloud environments.
- Lead modernization initiatives, including migration to cloud native or managed database services and adoption of IaC based automation.
- Drive standards for performance optimization, scalability, observability, and governance across all database environments.
- Implement and audit data security standards, including Transparent Data Encryption (TDE), AWS IAM database authentication, and encryption at rest/transit to maintain SOC2 and HIPAA compliance.
- Oversee system health, incident response, performance tuning, and real-time monitoring for high-volume, low latency workloads.
- Ensure SLAs, SLOs, RTO/RPO, and compliance requirements are consistently met.
- Streamline deployments, backups, patching, failovers, and capacity scaling through automation.
- Partner with software engineering, SRE, analytics, cloud platform, and security teams to ensure alignment with business and technical objectives.
- Collaborate with stakeholders on prioritization, planning, risk management, and delivery commitments.
- Foster a collaborative, results driven engineering culture consistent with Clearwater values.
Benefits
- 401k Matching
- Retirement Plan
- Health insurance
- Dental insurance
- Vision insurance