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Senior Systems Engineer

Bethesda, MD, US • Posted 14 hours ago • Updated 2 hours ago

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Skills

database technology
software engineering

Summary

Role: Senior Systems Engineer

Location: Bethesda ,MD (Hybrid)

Experience : 5- 10 Years

Summary :

Client is seeking a Senior Manager, Platform Engineer, to join our Database Platform team. This role is an experienced individual contributor who combines strong software engineering skills with genuine database expertise and a platform engineering orientation. The engineer contributes to designing, automating, and operating production-scale database platforms that are secure-by-default, resilient-by-design, and easy for application teams to consume. Working closely with Site Reliability Engineering, Networking, Security, and Application Engineering teams, this role delivers database capabilities through Marriott's Internal Developer Platform - enabling self-service provisioning and a consistent developer experience across Couchbase Capella, AWS Aurora, AWS DocumentDB, and AWS ElastiCache. Success in this role requires the ability to navigate complexity, work collaboratively across teams, and consistently deliver outcomes with a degree of independence within a scoped area.

Required

Bachelor's degree in engineering or computer science discipline and/or equivalent professional experience
7+ years of combined software engineering and/or infrastructure engineering experience, including hands-on experience with at least one distributed or document-oriented database technology (e.g., Couchbase, MongoDB, Cassandra, DocumentDB, or Cosmos DB)
Strong experience with Infrastructure as Code (particularly Terraform), CI/CD pipelines, and cloud infrastructure (preferably AWS), with proficiency in at least one general-purpose programming or scripting language (Python, Go, or equivalent)

Preferred

Experience with Couchbase Server or Couchbase Capella, and/or AWS managed database services (Aurora, DocumentDB, ElastiCache)
Experience with event-driven systems, workflow orchestration frameworks, database schema/change management tools (e.g., Liquibase), or compliance automation and policy-as-code tooling
Prior involvement in large-scale database migrations in production environments, or backend software development experience (Java, Node.js, Python, or equivalent

CORE WORK ACTIVITIES

Contribute to the design and build of database infrastructure provisioning modules and automation pipelines, encoding platform standards for security, availability, and cost
Implement CI/CD automation to standardize and safely deliver database platform changes across environments
Enable self-service database capabilities that allow application teams to execute routine operations independently through Marriott's Internal Developer Platform
Build platform tooling that gives application teams visibility into their database health, security posture, and compliance standing
Support strategic database migrations - including planning, production cutovers, and post-migration validation - in close cooperation with SRE and application teams
Contribute to the development of migration patterns and standards that can be executed consistently at scale
Develop guidance artifacts and prescriptive documentation for supported database platforms
Participate in working sessions with application teams on database architecture, performance, and operational readiness
Partner with application teams to identify and close compliance gaps against platform standards
Support the design and maintenance of automated disaster recovery capabilities for production database platforms
Partner with SRE teams on monitoring, alerting, reliability, incident management, and post-incident analysis
Ensure database platforms are secure-by-default and aligned with enterprise security and compliance standards
Integrate database services with IAM controls, networking, and configuration management systems
Contribute to technical discussions, shared documentation, engineering standards, and patterns
Collaborate with product owners and leadership on roadmap inputs and technical prioritization

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Dice Id: 90943834
Position Id: 2026-249
Posted 14 hours ago

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