Top Database Jobs in Ottawa

Own the reliability, scalability, and evolution of Zapier’s database and caching infrastructure. Responsibilities include operating MySQL, PostgreSQL, Redis, and ElastiCache; managing infrastructure with Terraform; building observability, automation, SLOs, and golden paths; participating in on-call; supporting product teams; improving performance and resilience; leading design reviews; documenting practices; and mentoring engineers.

Supports the design, development, testing, maintenance, and documentation of clinical study databases. Reviews protocols, CRFs/eCRFs, and data specifications; assists with database structures, forms, edit checks, validation rules, testing, issue resolution, and study updates while learning clinical data management processes.

Manage and maintain customer ERP and information-system environments across on-premises and Azure infrastructure. Responsibilities include SQL Server and possible Oracle administration, Windows/Linux system administration, monitoring, troubleshooting, patching, releases, access management, disaster recovery, automation, documentation, customer communication, and ticket management. The role participates in on-call rotations and maintenance windows while collaborating across support, development, technical services, and business intelligence teams.

Design and improve search engine layers including storage, indexing, and querying. Perform intensive performance optimization using profiling, SIMD, data-structure tuning, and I/O optimization. Evolve full-text, vector, and reranking APIs; collaborate with customers; document technical concepts; and contribute expertise in search, storage engines, or distributed systems.

Designs, implements, and optimizes enterprise database architecture supporting medical imaging platforms across on-premises, cloud, and hybrid environments. Develops data models aligned with DICOM, HL7, and FHIR; establishes security, compliance, backup, and disaster recovery standards; and leads performance tuning, capacity planning, migrations, and modernization. Collaborates with engineering, DevOps, infrastructure, and product teams while providing technical leadership and mentorship.

Administer, maintain, monitor, and optimize Microsoft SQL Server and/or Oracle databases in a federal enterprise environment. Responsibilities include installation, patching, backup and recovery, performance monitoring, access management, security auditing, SQL development, data migration, incident response through ServiceNow, documentation, disaster recovery testing, and on-call support during AWS cloud modernization.

Build and operate Go-based automation for PostgreSQL provisioning, configuration, upgrades, failover, scaling, and decommissioning at GitLab.com scale. Develop a PostgreSQL-as-a-service platform, integrate cloud infrastructure and infrastructure-as-code tooling, improve database performance and reliability, and create safe upgrade automation. The role includes production ownership, architecture leadership, code reviews, documentation, cross-team collaboration, mentorship, and using AI agents in engineering workflows.

Design and operate globally distributed database systems across bare-metal and cloud environments. Lead reliability, performance, automation, observability, incident response, capacity planning, security, and database change management. Establish technical direction, simplify the infrastructure footprint, develop data-platform roadmaps, troubleshoot complex distributed-system failures, and mentor engineers across teams.

Designs, develops, deploys, and troubleshoots Oracle Integration Cloud APIs and integration flows connecting on-premise and cloud applications. Builds synchronous, asynchronous, and batch integrations using Salesforce, file, and database connectors. Responsibilities include error handling, transformations, validation, technical design reviews, estimations, version control, change requests, bug fixes, and coordination with IT, Oracle support, infrastructure, DBAs, and business stakeholders.

Own go-to-market strategy and adoption for Stripe's data products. Develop positioning, messaging, competitive intelligence, launch plans, demand programs, and sales enablement. Translate customer and market insights into roadmap recommendations and measurable KPIs while partnering cross-functionally to drive commercialization and growth.

Serve as the primary DBA contact for critical production issues across customized, multi-tenant SQL Server environments. Diagnose performance and availability problems, optimize queries and stored procedures, monitor database health, build alerting and runbooks, maintain test-environment readiness, review database-related code changes, perform backups and patching, and document operational procedures. Collaborate closely with developers while providing production support during US business hours.

Own automated reliability, regression, correctness, and performance testing for InfluxDB Enterprise 3. Build repeatable test contracts, simulate real-world distributed database workloads, investigate performance variations, identify architectural bottlenecks, and generate reports on latency regressions, data divergence, and resource issues. Collaborate with developers, participate in on-call support, and use Rust, containerization, orchestration, CI/CD, and AI-assisted tools.

Lead modernization of complex SQL Server stored procedures and design AI-native data infrastructure. Responsibilities include domain-driven data architecture, event-driven patterns, vector databases, embedding pipelines, semantic models, knowledge graphs, RAG evaluation, multi-platform data solutions, governance, and AI-assisted database tooling. The role partners across engineering and AI/ML teams, establishes reference architectures, mentors engineers, and contributes to enterprise data standards.

Build and enhance Elasticsearch’s analytical query engine and ES|QL capabilities. Design data-intensive features, algorithms, and data structures; optimize performance; resolve bugs; and work near operating system and hardware layers. Collaborate with globally distributed engineering teams and open-source contributors, guide projects autonomously, review code, and improve Elasticsearch expertise and usability.

Lead the technical vision, roadmap, and development of Elasticsearch’s ES|QL analytics and compute engine. Build data-intensive enhancements using modern Java, research algorithms and data structures, collaborate across teams, mentor engineers, guide technical projects, and improve search and analytics capabilities. Work autonomously in a globally distributed environment while partnering with product, user experience, and customer-facing teams.

Manage, optimize, and secure large-scale databases, work with engineering teams to design and maintain high-performance database systems, and ensure data integrity and security.

As a Database Administrator at Air Apps, you will manage and optimize complex databases, ensuring performance, security, and data integrity while collaborating closely with engineering teams.

Provide expert MongoDB technical support, troubleshoot complex deployments, administer Linux systems, advise on schema/design, performance tuning, backups, monitoring, and collaborate on support content and product strategy while occasionally traveling for team or customer meetings.

As a PostgreSQL Database Support Engineer, you'll assist DBA teams with troubleshooting, create knowledge base articles, and author community blogs while focusing on performance tuning and high availability solutions.

Design, administer, and optimize Postgres databases on cloud-native platforms. Triage and remediate production database incidents, manage replication/backups, evaluate schemas and queries for performance, and build repeatable DB architecture using IaC and GitOps for AWS/GCP Kubernetes environments.

Maintain and secure the church CRM by entering, auditing, deduplicating, and updating constituent records. Build reports, dashboards, mailing lists, and analytics; support online forms, event registrations, and integrations. Train staff, manage user permissions, coordinate with IT/vendors, perform audits, and document procedures to support ministry decision-making and data-driven operations.

Invitation to join Space Rangers' global contractor and freelance talent pool for games roles. Candidates complete a short form; details are stored and the Talent Team will contact suitable matches for contract opportunities worldwide.

Provide expert MySQL/InnoDB support to customer DBA teams: gather data, investigate issues, deliver analyses, run screen-share troubleshooting, author community content, build knowledge-base articles, and host webinars. Support includes performance tuning, HA, backups, Linux administration, monitoring, and occasional travel.

Lead database platform operations and expansion across multiple products: select, design, prototype, develop, test, implement and optimize cross-database solutions and replication (Oracle GoldenGate), ensure performance tuning, document work, and collaborate with engineering and operations teams while using Linux and shell scripting.

Operate, design, prototype, develop, test, and implement database solutions across multiple engines (Oracle, SQL Server, Aurora, MySQL, DB2). Optimize data models, implement replication (Oracle GoldenGate), build cross-database solutions, document work, and recommend improvements while supporting multiple product lines.