Senior Database Engineer II - Data Platform

Overview

Senior Database Engineer on the Data Platform team, administering the Microsoft SQL Server estate behind SurveyMonkey's core business and product systems, along with supporting relational databases in the cloud.

What you'll do

• Administer production SQL Server environments, including performance tuning, indexing, query optimization, schema changes, and stored procedures
• Plan and execute major version upgrades with minimal downtime
• Own database monitoring and alerting
• Manage transaction log sizing, maintenance jobs, and index health
• Operate and maintain data replication tooling
• Automate credential rotation and enforce encryption and access controls
• Participate in high-availability and disaster recovery testing, and validate backups and restores
• Support PostgreSQL and MySQL-compatible cloud database migrations and upgrades
• Support application teams with design reviews and incident troubleshooting
• Write SOPs and mentor engineers
• Participate in an on-call rotation

What you'll need

• 8+ years as a SQL Server DBA in production, high-availability environments
• Deep T-SQL, execution plan analysis, and performance tuning skills
• Always On availability groups, backup and restore strategy, and disaster recovery
• Experience running SQL Server in AWS
• Automation with PowerShell or Python
• Disciplined change management

Nice to have

• PostgreSQL administration and upgrades
• MySQL-compatible managed databases
• Data replication tools
• Infrastructure as code

Details

• Hybrid: work from the SurveyMonkey office in Bengaluru 3 days per week