Database Engineer

Overview

Are you ready to make a difference in the world of consumer finance?At Attain Finance, we bring over 50 years of expertise in providing credit solutions across the U.S. and Canada. Our deep roots in the financial industry have empowered us to develop convenient, easily accessible financial services that meet our customers' growing needs.

We are seeking a skilled Database Reliability Engineer (DBRE) to own the reliability, performance, monitoring, and security of our database ecosystem across AWS RDS, Aurora, PostgreSQL, and SQL Server. This role plays a critical part in ensuring production stability, improving database operations, strengthening governance, and supporting our shift toward real-time ingestion and a modern Data Cloud platform.

You will work closely with Data Engineering, Software Engineering, InfoSec, and Data Governance teams to streamline database operations, improve observability, and maintain a secure, compliant environment. The ideal candidate enjoys solving complex production issues, optimizing systems, and building long-lasting, scalable database practices.

Responsibilities

Database Reliability, Monitoring & Performance

• Manage and optimize databases across AWS RDS, Aurora (MySQL/Postgres), PostgreSQL, and Microsoft SQL Server.

• Build and enhance monitoring and alerting for availability, performance, replication lag, storage, and system anomalies using CloudWatch, Datadog, or similar tools.

• Ensure database performance tuning, capacity planning, HA/DR readiness, and operational excellence.

• Proactively track database health and address performance or stability issues before they impact production.

• Lead backup, recovery, retention, and failover strategies.

Production Support & Incident Response

• Act as a key responder for critical production database incidents, ensuring fast diagnosis and resolution.

• Conduct root cause analysis (RCA) and implement long-term preventive improvements.

• Improve response playbooks, runbooks, dashboards, and observability practices.

Security, Access Cleanup & Governance

• Lead efforts to standardize and clean up database access, aligning permissions with least-privilege and governance standards.

• Work with Data Governance and InfoSec to ensure compliance, auditing, encryption, and secure access patterns.

• Maintain consistent operational and security practices across all environments.

Collaboration & Platform Modernization

• Partner with the Data Engineering team to support modern pipelines, schema design improvements, and real-time ingestion architectures.

• Provide guidance on query optimization, SQL reviews, and data model considerations.

• Support the evolution of our data platform, including real-time ingestion (CDC, Kafka, Kinesis, etc.).

Continuous Improvement & Automation

• Identify opportunities to automate manual processes, improve monitoring tools, and streamline operations.

• Maintain documentation, runbooks, and best practices to improve reliability and cross-team collaboration.

• Contribute to tooling improvements that elevate database visibility and performance

Qualifications

Required Qualifications

• 3-5 years in a database-focused engineering or reliability role.

• Strong hands-on expertise with:

• AWS RDS & Aurora (Postgres/MySQL)

• PostgreSQL administration & tuning

• SQL Server administration

• Strong understanding of:

• Performance tuning and diagnostics

• High availability, replication, DR, and failover mechanisms

• Backup/restore operations

• IAM, access control, encryption, and auditability

• Monitoring and observability best practices

• Experience supporting mission-critical production databases.

• Strong troubleshooting skills and ability to communicate effectively under pressure.

• Comfortable partnering with data engineering teams.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with Snowflake or interest in supporting its adoption.

• Exposure to real-time ingestion (Kafka, Kinesis, CDC, DMS).

• Familiarity with infrastructure-as-code (Terraform, CloudFormation).

• Experience with observability tools (CloudWatch, Datadog, Grafana, New Relic).

What We’re Looking For

A proactive, detail-oriented engineer who thrives in fast-paced environments, prioritizes reliability and monitoring excellence, and enjoys collaborating to build a secure, scalable, and modern data platform.

Base Salary: $90,000 - $110,000 USD

The base salary range represents the low and high end of the anticipated salary range for this position based on the U.S. average. The actual base salary offered for this full-time position will be determined by various factors, including but not limited to, location, skills, knowledge, competencies, and experience.All full-time salaried employees are eligible for the following benefits, starting on day one: Flexible Paid Time Off Program, Medical, Dental, Vision, Life Insurance, Disability, and other voluntary coverages. You will also be eligible to participate in our 401k program, starting on the first of the month following 30 days of employment with a company match.This employer participates in E-Verify for US-based hires.#AttainFinance #ATTAINRP

EEO Statement

Attain Finance Supports Equal Employment Opportunity. CURO (dba Cash Money®, LendDirect®, Heights Finance, Southern Finance, Covington Credit, Quick Credit, and First Heritage Credit) is committed to a policy of providing equal employment opportunity to all qualified employees and applicants. This commitment is reflected in all aspects of our daily operations. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, color, sex, religion, national origin, marital status, age, disability, veteran status, or genetic information in any personnel practice, including recruitment, hiring, training, compensation, promotion, and discipline. Additionally, we do not discriminate based on any other characteristic protected by applicable state/provincial or local law where a particular employee works. In addition, it is the policy of Attain Finance to provide reasonable accommodation to qualified employees who have protected disabilities to the extent required by federal law and any state/provincial law where a particular employee works.Notice to Attain Finance job applicants: Attain Finance will never ask for your personal banking information, transfer of funds, a credit card, or for you to purchase any equipment to process a job application or for training. Authorized Attain Finance representatives' email addresses will end in @attainfinace.com, @curo.com, @first-heritage.com, @heightsfinance.com, and @cashmoney.ca.