Technical Lead, Senior Database Engineer

Senior Database Engineer

Draper UT - Remote

About Us

Canopy is a fast-growing SaaS company in Draper Utah building simple efficient software for accounting firms. We are looking to revolutionize the accounting space with modern user-friendly software for a neglected industry. Our goal is to help our clients unlock the firm theyve always wanted with our Practice Management Suite. We place strong emphasis on delighting our customers spotting and solving problems and being good people along the way.

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The Opportunity

Were hiring a Senior Database Engineer who takes real pride in databases that run well and enjoys writing great SQL. If youre eager to own a fleet of roughly 100 Postgres databases obsessed with query performance and opinionated about what good schema design looks like on a modern SaaS platform youre the person were looking for. Youll be central to our backend engineering efforts working alongside developers product managers and QA engineers to shape our data models and keep our platform fast and reliable. Our DevOps tooling and microservices architecture let teams ship to production hundreds of times a monthyour job is to make sure the database layer keeps up.

What Youll Do:

• Oversee the maintenance of 100 managed databases to ensure optimal performance security and reliability.
• Regularly monitor database health identifying bottlenecks and recommending actionable solutions.
• Own database cost and capacity planning across the fleetright-sizing instances forecasting spend and making the case for where we should invest versus trim.
• Use historical performance and growth trends to plan for busy season so we scale up before the load arrives and scale back down when it doesnt need to be there.
• Refine and refactor our database structures to align with best practices and enhance the ease of data access for backend developers.
• Own index and query health across the fleet: plan analysis slow query review index coverage and bloat autovacuum tuning and connection pooling.
• Advise on and implement modern database best practices to elevate our platforms reliability and efficiency.
• Collaborate with teams to write and optimize complex database queries and migrations.
• Serve as the database reviewer on squad design docs. Every new features data model schema changes and query patterns get your sign-off alongside the tech lead and youll shape them for performance scale and reporting before any code gets written.
• Spearhead initiatives to minimize downtime during database maintenance ensuring a seamless experience for our users.
• Provide mentoring and training to team members on database insights and optimizations.
• Develop and communicate SQL best practices to engineering teams.

Your Skills Include:

• Minimum of 5 years of experience as a Database Engineer with a track record of managing and optimizing databases.
• 5 years of experience writing SQL and experience with relational database systems - specifically PostgreSQL
• Acute ability to diagnose database performance issues and provide solutions.
• Proven experience in implementing database best practices and ensuring minimal downtime.
• Experience with managed cloud database infrastructure (RDS preferred).
• Excellent communication skills fostering collaboration and understanding across teams while showing mutual respect for others opinions.
• A relentless passion for ensuring data integrity and accessibility combined with a drive to build innovative scalable solutions that have a genuine impact on customers.

Bonus Skills:

• Experience with warehousing techniques enabling better analytics and reporting functionalities.
• Proficiency with various programming languages (Python and/or Java/Kotlin are a plus).

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Why You Want to Work Here:

Flexible Paid Time Off - that youre actually encouraged to use plus 10 company holidays!

Health Benefits - including Medical Dental and Vision and an HSA Match. Canopy covers Medical premiums at 100% for Employees only.

401(k) - we match 100% up to 3% of your contribution. Eligibility is immediate with 100% vesting.

Mental Health - all employees have access to Impact Suite & to our Employee Assistance Program (EAP).

Paid New Parent Leave & Birthing Parent Leave - so youre able to care for your little ones.

Supplemental Benefits - including 100% company paid Basic Life & AD&D insurance and long & short-term disability coverage.

Motivosity - our peer-to-peer recognition program to help our employees recognize the amazing work being done by other Canopians!

Company Events - including monthly company-wide meetings summer parties and more.

DEIB Committee - to plan initiatives around continuing education community outreach recruiting onboarding and more.

Fully-stocked kitchen - Keto Vegan Flexitarian Mandalorian Weve got you covered.

Our Values:

We approach our work every day with a few things in mind:

Own - we own this place! We focus on outcomes holding ourselves & each other accountable.

Win - we win by delighting our customers with the very best products and services.

Do Good - we work hard to be good people!

Embrace Curiosity & Candor - we approach everything with curiosity & we understand that candor is kindness and give the gift of feedback.

To learn more about us & our values click here.

Interviewing @ Canopy:

We know application processes can be a little stressful. Heres are the stages of a typical interview process:

• Once your application is received we will review it and get back to you if we feel like its a mutual fit!
• 20 minute phone call with the People Team
• 60 minute video technical interview with the Hiring Manager
• Note: you will be writing SQL in real time with the Manager
• 1-3 rounds of interviews with the Engineering Team.

Interview processes can vary depending on the role. The People Team will give you a role specific overview of the process during your first phone call.

Remember: This is your interview too! We know candidates are evaluating us just as much as we are them. We encourage you to bring questions to each of your interviewsour hiring teams will always make sure to save time for questions at the end!

Canopy is an equal opportunity employer. Canopy provides equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race color religion gender national origin sexual orientation gender identity or expression age disability genetic information marital status or veteran status.