Database Engineer

Job overview

The Database Engineer role is onsite five days per week in Foster City, CA. The listed salary range is $110,000–$125,000 per year. ALTEN Technology USA partners with clients on engineering challenges across industries including aerospace, medical devices, robotics, and automotive. The role designs, operates, and improves scalable, secure data stores that support applications and analytics. Working with application and data teams, the engineer tunes performance, automates database operations, and strengthens reliability and cost efficiency from development through production.

What you'll do

• Design and develop scalable database solutions
• install, configure, and upgrade database software and tools
• monitor and optimize queries, indexes, and schemas
• maintain database security controls
• collaborate with application developers on schemas and SQL
• troubleshoot incidents
• document architecture, configuration, and runbooks
• plan capacity
• and manage AWS database infrastructure such as RDS, Aurora, and Redshift.

What we're looking for

Skills & competencies

database engineer

foster city ca

alten technology usa

full-time

onsite

$110k–$125k

aws

infrastructure as code

sql

postgresql

mysql

redshift

database security

Work arrangement

• Weekend coverage required

Benefits & perks

• Comprehensive benefits
• mentorship and career growth opportunities.

Why this role

Onsite five days per week; database infrastructure work includes AWS and infrastructure-as-code, with PostgreSQL, MySQL, SQL Server, and Redshift listed as relevant systems.

About the employer

ALTEN Technology USA is hiring for this role. Industry: Engineering Services. Sector: 54.