Staff Database Engineer

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 hands‐on to the evolution of a large‐scale SQL Server environment into a modern, cloud‐native AWS ecosystem, creating a secure, scalable, and high‐performing platform for mission‐critical products.

Requirements

• Define and own the strategy, architecture, and long-term roadmap for Clearwater’s 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