Senior Database Developer

Postgres
UNITED STATES
October 17, 2026
Full Time
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Job Description

Company: Inadev
Location: United States
Workplace Type: Remote
Employment Type: Full-time

About the Role

Inadev is seeking a Senior Database Developer to design, optimize, and support enterprise database solutions enabling secure, scalable, and high-performing applications. In this remote role, you will provide technical leadership for database design, query optimization, data integration, and operational support across AWS cloud-native environments, focusing primarily on AWS Aurora PostgreSQL.

What You’ll Do / Key Responsibilities

  • Design, develop, and maintain scalable database solutions using AWS Aurora PostgreSQL and Amazon DynamoDB for high-volume applications.
  • Design and implement logical and physical data models, schemas, indexes, views, stored procedures, and database objects.
  • Perform comprehensive database performance analysis, execution-plan reviews, partitioning, and query optimization.
  • Investigate and resolve production database bottlenecks, deadlocks, lock contention, and replication issues.
  • Implement database monitoring, capacity planning, backup/recovery routines, and disaster recovery strategies.
  • Build and support ETL/ELT data integration pipelines and migration solutions.
  • Enforce database security standards, encryption, access controls, and least-privilege principles.
  • Support database schema deployments via CI/CD pipelines and infrastructure-as-code automation.

Requirements & Qualifications

  • U.S. Citizenship required; must currently reside in the Continental United States and work EST hours.
  • Ability to pass a background check and obtain/maintain a U.S. Government Clearance.
  • 5+ years of hands-on database engineering, development, and administration experience supporting enterprise applications.
  • Strong expertise in AWS Aurora PostgreSQL, including schema design, query development, stored procedures, indexing, and execution-plan analysis.
  • Experience with Amazon DynamoDB data modeling, secondary indexes, and access pattern optimization.
  • Advanced SQL development skills and relational data modeling best practices.
  • Working knowledge of database monitoring, backup/recovery, high availability, and operational support.
  • Experience implementing data security controls, encryption, and audit compliance.

Preferred / Bonus Qualifications

  • AWS Certified Database Specialty, Developer Associate, or Solutions Architect certification.
  • Experience supporting Federal Government systems with stringent compliance requirements.
  • Hands-on PostgreSQL administration and tuning expertise in high-volume transactional environments.
  • Experience with database observability tools (Amazon CloudWatch, Performance Insights, Datadog) and Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, CloudFormation).

Inadev is an Equal Opportunity Employer and federal contractor.

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