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Exiger is hiring a Database Engineer to own the data plane patterns across its federal government programs. Rather than administering a single program's databases, you will build the database engineering practice that every program inherits: reference schema conventions, replication and recovery patterns proven by real drills, zero-downtime migration tooling, and the security posture required inside a FedRAMP boundary.
The role stays hands-on and production-facing. You will operate shared data infrastructure, support program teams running data planes built on your patterns, carry escalation for the hardest database problems across engagements, and represent data posture (residency, retention, encryption, access) in customer conversations.
Key responsibilities include: owning reference database posture (instance design, replication topology, parameter tuning, query plan health); setting and governing schema conventions across programs; building backup, restore, and disaster-recovery patterns as reusable tooling; owning database security patterns inside the FedRAMP boundary (encryption, least-privilege access, audit logging); building zero-downtime migration and schema change tooling; partnering with Platform and Data Engineering teams; supporting program teams on-call for data plane escalations; and participating in customer conversations about data posture.
Required: 5+ years of production database engineering at scale on a major relational engine (PostgreSQL preferred; Aurora, MySQL, or Oracle acceptable); strong query plan literacy; production experience with zero-downtime schema migrations on live traffic; production experience with at least one OLAP/analytics store (Redshift, Snowflake, BigQuery, ClickHouse); production experience on AWS (RDS/Aurora preferred); hands-on experience inside a FedRAMP boundary (Moderate or High); experience building database patterns or standards consumed by teams beyond your own; familiarity with database-side ATO continuous-monitoring cycles; strong customer-facing skills explaining data residency, retention, and encryption decisions; ability to obtain and maintain a U.S. Government security clearance.
