Principal Database Engineer

Elite Technology is a leading, independent technology company that helps law firms drive profitability through improved operational effectiveness, increased efficiency, and greater visibility across their business. Our cutting-edge digital financial management and business operations solutions drive success for firms around the globe by improving finance and accounting operations, including billing, invoicing, payments, and financial reporting. By bringing together data, insights, and tools, we enable law firm leaders to make informed business decisions to build and manage their businesses more effectively and efficiently.

Job Description:

Our Principal Database Engineer will play a key role in scaling and optimizing our database infrastructure to support our business-critical SaaS applications. This is a hands-on, strategic role responsible for driving architectural direction, performance, and reliability of our Azure SQL-based systems. This remote position is ideal for a highly experienced database expert who thrives at the intersection of deep technical work, cross-functional influence, and long-term platform vision.

What You’ll Do:

• Design and lead the implementation of secure, scalable, and performant database architectures using cloud-native technologies, especially within Azure.
• Drive long-term strategies around database scaling, tenant isolation, CDC pipelines, and replication models in collaboration with platform and product teams.
• Analyze and resolve complex performance issues, optimize query execution, and define best practices for indexing, partitioning, and resource tuning.
• Serve as a trusted technical mentor to engineers across software, platform, and DevOps teams, reviewing critical database design decisions and fostering engineering excellence.
• Promote automation-first approaches for schema changes, release management, monitoring, backups, and compliance, leveraging tools such as Azure DevOps and Terraform.
• Lead risk assessments, incident response readiness, and enforce database security and documentation standards across systems.
• Influence cross-functional architecture decisions by clearly articulating trade-offs and aligning with business priorities.
• Manage database infrastructure for multi-tenant, high-scale SaaS environments ensuring performance, availability, and scalability goals are consistently met.
• Communicate technical direction and system implications effectively across teams and stakeholders.
• Perform other duties as assigned to support the overall goals and objectives of the department/company.

What You’ll Need:

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent experience.
• 10+ years of experience in database engineering or administration, with expertise in high-scale, distributed, or multi-tenant environments.
• Deep hands-on experience with Azure SQL, including advanced T-SQL, query tuning, execution plans, and database optimization.
• Demonstrated experience with Change Data Capture (CDC), Change Tracking, replication, and backup/restore strategies in cloud environments.
• Strong understanding of cloud infrastructure, networking, and database security best practices, ideally in Azure.
• Proficiency with infrastructure-as-code and DevOps tooling (e.g., Azure DevOps, Terraform, GitHub Actions).
• Experience architecting and maintaining cloud-native database platforms for mission-critical SaaS applications.
• Proven ability to influence without authority across teams and align database decisions with business outcomes.
• Strong communication and technical writing skills, with a track record of presenting architectural decisions to cross-functional stakeholders.
• Demonstrated success operating as a technical leader across engineering organizations.

Benefits:

• Competitive Compensation Package ($180,000 - $200,000 base salary + variable component)
• Comprehensive Healthcare Coverage (Health, Dental, Vision)
• Retirement Savings Plan with an Employer Contribution
• Professional Development Opportunities
• Time Off
• Wellness Initiatives

Please note that we do not offer sponsorship for this position.

Additional Information

At Elite Technology, we embrace an employee-centric, flexible work model that empowers you to do your best work in the environment that suits you. However, we also recognize the importance of in-person collaboration for key moments that truly matter.

In our flexible remote approach, you have the freedom to choose a workspace within your home country that best fits your needs. Our corporate offices are located in New York City, Los Angeles, Costa Rica, and the Philippines, providing additional options for those who prefer or need a hybrid work environment.

Our diverse global team spans the U.S., Canada, U.K., Costa Rica, the Philippines, and Australia. Please note that at this time, we are unable to hire employees located in Quebec or Ontario Provinces, Alaska, Hawaii, Puerto Rico, Louisiana, and Oklahoma.

As a global business, we rely on diversity of culture and thought to deliver on our goals. To ensure we can do that, we seek talented, qualified employees in all our operations around the world regardless of race, color, sex/gender, including pregnancy, gender identity and expression, national origin, religion, sexual orientation, disability, age, marital status, citizen status, veteran status, or any other protected classification under applicable law. We are proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer providing a drug-free workplace.

We also provide reasonable accommodation for qualified individuals with disabilities and for sincerely held religious beliefs in accordance with applicable law.

We are not accepting applications submitted through recruiting agencies.