PORCH 💚
PORCH 💚
PORCH 💚 is an insurance technology company building software and services for the home services ecosystem. Its tools support home professionals, utility providers, real estate teams, homeowners, and related partners across inspections, moving, mortgages, maintenance, warranties, and home improvement. By connecting these services, PORCH helps simplify customer onboarding, service requests, and other parts of the homeownership and home-buying experience. Its hiring context reflects a small team working across insurance, software, and home services.

Senior Database Engineer (India, Remote)

Lead database platforms across GCP and Azure for Porch Group’s home services software and insurance operations. Improve platform modernization, reliability, performance, security, and disaster recovery.

Description

  • Own the design, implementation, and administration of data architectures and database platforms across GCP and Azure
  • Partner with software, systems, DevOps, business, analytics, software, and data science teams
  • Shape key data platform architecture while balancing operational excellence, security, reliability, performance, and cost
  • Help define technology roadmaps and architectural enhancements for InfoSec, data platforms, and disaster recovery and business continuity
  • Migrate and transform data stores for strategic initiatives
  • Support daily data-system operations and information-security programs
  • Establish, maintain, and apply data engineering processes and best practices
  • Tune, maintain, and optimize production database environments
  • Develop and operate a self-healing database platform with AI-based observability and monitoring tools
  • Advance modernization and centralization of the database environment
  • Provide database operations support for SQL Server and PostgreSQL, including SQL scripting, database objects, and troubleshooting
  • Administer, patch, upgrade, and monitor PostgreSQL and SQL Server databases across GCP and Azure
  • Set up and manage backup, recovery, high availability, and disaster recovery capabilities
  • Design, administer, and monitor BigQuery warehouse schemas and queries, including cost and slot usage
  • Develop Infrastructure as Code with Terraform
  • Support CI/CD processes for database changes, ADF pipelines, and infrastructure deployments

Requirements

  • Preferred: bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or Systems Engineering, or equivalent experience
  • At least 8 years of data engineering and/or database administration experience with hands-on ownership of production database platforms
  • Proficiency in designing data structures and applying technical design principles
  • Hands-on experience with BigQuery, Compute Engine, and Cloud SQL for PostgreSQL and SQL Server in GCP
  • Hands-on experience with Azure Database for PostgreSQL, Azure SQL Database, and/or SQL Server on Azure VMs
  • Experience with high availability, disaster recovery, backup and restore, and performance tuning
  • Working knowledge of version control and CI/CD tools, including Git, Azure DevOps, and Cloud Build
  • Working knowledge of Azure Data Factory, SSIS/SSRS in Azure, and Dataflow/Dataproc in GCP
  • Effective communication with stakeholders and partners
  • Preferred experience with Agile or comparable delivery methods
  • Experience supporting AI/ML platforms and integrating AI-powered data tools
  • Required Unix scripting experience
  • Demonstrated experience working with US-based business teams
  • Excellent written and spoken English communication skills
  • Availability to work during core US business hours with Eastern Standard Time overlap
  • Eight working hours excluding breaks, including four core US hours from 7:30pm–11:30pm IST and four flexible hours
  • A quiet, dedicated workspace and reliable internet connection with a minimum speed of 50 Mbps

Benefits

  • Medical insurance
  • Accident insurance
  • Retirement benefits
  • 12 company-paid holidays
  • 2 flexible holidays
  • Privilege or earned leave
  • Casual and sick leave
  • Paid maternity and paternity leave
  • Weekly wellness events
  • Comprehensive health, life, and financial wellbeing coverage
  • Virtual interviews and remote work

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