Database Engineer
TEKsystems • Dallas, TX • Posted July 01, 2026
Position Overview
DescriptionAbout the role
We are building and operating an enterprise-scale, high-volume transactional database platform that supports end-to-end transaction processing. This role designs, builds, and maintains highly available, performant, and secure data stores and data movement patterns across MySQL and Oracle platforms, partnering closely with application engineering, SRE/operations, and security teams.
You will be accountable for database architecture and implementation decisions that directly impact transaction integrity, latency, resiliency, and operational excellence. Level (Senior vs. Lead) is determined by depth of scope and leadership impact.
What you’ll do (core responsibilities)Architecture & Design
+ Design and evolve an enterprise transactional data model for high-volume OLTP systems, including schemas, constraints, indexing strategies, partitioning, and retention/archival patterns.
+ Define database standards for reliability, scalability, perf...
We are building and operating an enterprise-scale, high-volume transactional database platform that supports end-to-end transaction processing. This role designs, builds, and maintains highly available, performant, and secure data stores and data movement patterns across MySQL and Oracle platforms, partnering closely with application engineering, SRE/operations, and security teams.
You will be accountable for database architecture and implementation decisions that directly impact transaction integrity, latency, resiliency, and operational excellence. Level (Senior vs. Lead) is determined by depth of scope and leadership impact.
What you’ll do (core responsibilities)Architecture & Design
+ Design and evolve an enterprise transactional data model for high-volume OLTP systems, including schemas, constraints, indexing strategies, partitioning, and retention/archival patterns.
+ Define database standards for reliability, scalability, perf...