R Id Senior Database Data Platform

MatchPoint is a fast-growing, young, energetic global IT-Engineering services company with clients across the US. We provide technology solutions to various clients like Uber, Robinhood, Netflix, Airbnb, Google, Sephora and more! More recently, we have expanded to working internationally in Canada, China, Ireland, UK, Brazil and India. Through our culture of innovation, we inspire, build, and deliver business results, from idea to outcome. We keep our clients on the cutting edge of the latest technologies and provide solutions by using industry specific best practices and expertise.

We are excited to be continuously expanding our team. If you are interested in this position, please send over your updated resume. We look forward to hearing from you!

Role: Senior Database & Data Platform Engineer

Contract Length: 12 months

Location: Santa Clara, CA

Rate: $70/hr on W2

This 12-month contract role is based in Santa Clara, California, and supports the design, modernization, and operation of database and data-platform capabilities for customer applications and analytics platforms. The engineer will partner with backend, frontend, analytics, and Power Platform engineers to build reliable, scalable, and observable data services.

Responsibilities:

Design database architecture for CAE, Mission Control, and related SPT applications.

Build and optimize schemas, queries, stored procedures, indexes, and data models.

Develop reliable extract, transform, load (ETL) and extract, load, transform (ELT) pipelines between enterprise systems and customer platforms.

Help standardize database application programming interfaces (APIs) and reusable data services.

Troubleshoot database performance, reliability, and scalability issues.

Support migration and modernization efforts, including SQL-to-PostgreSQL workloads.

Collaborate with backend, frontend, analytics, and Power Platform engineers.

Improve data quality, monitoring, observability, and automation.

Qualifications:

Advanced SQL expertise and hands-on PostgreSQL experience.

Strong knowledge of relational database design, database architecture, schemas, normalization, indexing, and query optimization.

Experience developing ETL/ELT processes and production data pipelines.

Experience with API-based data integration and integrating multiple enterprise data sources.

Python experience for data processing and automation.

Demonstrated performance-tuning and troubleshooting skills.

Experience handling large-volume data and developing data models.

Preferred: experience with Microsoft Fabric or Databricks, Splunk, SAP or other enterprise-system integrations, REST APIs or Model Context Protocol (MCP) integrations, Power BI backend/data models, cloud databases, CI/CD, Git, web applications, or analytics platforms.

Tools and Technologies:

SQL and PostgreSQL

Python

ETL/ELT pipelines and REST APIs

Microsoft Fabric or Databricks

Splunk and SAP

Power BI

Cloud database platforms

Git and continuous integration/continuous delivery (CI/CD)

Tools and Technologies:

SLURM; SUSE Linux Enterprise Server (SLES) 12 and 15; Ansible; RackN / Digital Rebar Provision; Kiwi NG; VMware vSphere and ESXi; Git and GitHub; Artifactory; ServiceNow; Okta; Active Directory; Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP); Network Information Service (NIS); Quest Authentication Services (VAS); System Security Services Daemon (SSSD); NetApp; Splunk; VNC; AutoFS; Zabbix; Confluence.

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