Senior Database Reliability Engineer

The posting, as Clicklease wrote it

Established in 2018, Clicklease is dedicated to empowering small business owners frequently overlooked by traditional lenders. Our headquarters are located in the vibrant city of Draper, UT, with operations extending to Radial, Alajuela, Costa Rica. We've cultivated a dynamic environment where equipment financing goes beyond being a mere service; it acts as the gateway to realizing entrepreneurial dreams.

Our Core Values

• We Are A Happy Company:

At Clicklease, happiness is not just a byproduct; it's a fundamental value. Join a workplace where positivity and joy are cultivated, creating an environment where you can bring your best self to work every day.

• We Celebrate Collective Intelligence:

We thrive on the brilliance of collaboration. Clicklease is a space where diverse minds come together, combining their intelligence to create solutions that matter. Your ideas are not just heard; they're celebrated.

• We Practice Empathy:

Empathy isn't just a word in our dictionary; it's a daily practice. Join a team that values understanding and compassion. At Clicklease, we recognize the human side of business and foster a culture where empathy is a guiding principle.

• We Listen & Learn:

Growth is a continuous journey at Clicklease. We believe in listening and learning from one another. Your insights and experiences contribute to our collective knowledge, making us stronger as a team.

Our Mission

At Clicklease, we have a clear purpose - to fulfill the capital needs of underserved entrepreneurs and their Main Street Businesses. We achieve this mission through simple, fast, and innovative equipment leasing solutions. This is not just a statement; it's the driving force behind everything we do.

As a member of our Data Engineering team, you’ll be a technical owner of the databases that power our lending platform, risk and decisioning systems, and customer-facing services. You’ll work alongside our DBA and Data Engineers, in close partnership with our DevOps team, who own our cloud infrastructure, to keep production databases fast, secure, and reliable.
Our databases are self-hosted on AWS EC2: Microsoft SQL Server with a failover replica, and PostgreSQL in a primary/replica configuration, alongside Snowflake as our data warehouse. We’re looking for someone with deep expertise in SQL Server or PostgreSQL and strong hands-on experience with the other.
You won’t just keep the lights on. You’ll help shape how we build, deploy, and operate our data platform, including bringing our database tooling under infrastructure-as-code.
What You'll Be Doing
Keep Our Databases Available & Recoverable

• Keep production databases stable and resilient, with reliable failover, replication, and disaster-recovery plans.
• Own backup and recovery strategy and automate regular testing of restores and failover.
• Refresh non-production environments from production data safely and repeatably.

Drive Performance & Scalability

• Monitor, troubleshoot, and tune dat

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skills and a calm approach to production incidents.

• Strong written communication for runbooks, documentation, and tickets.
• Using AI-assisted tools for database analysis and operations.

What Will Make You Stand Out

• Designing database architecture that scales with the business, such as partitioning, read scaling, and capacity planning.
• Windows Server administration in support of SQL Server and its services.
• Monitoring and observability with tools like Zabbix and Grafana.
• Building or improving CI/CD pipelines for database changes.
• Terraform, especially bringing existing resources under infrastructure-as-code.
• AWS DMS or other change-data-capture and replication tools.
• Data warehouses (e.g., Snowflake), ETL/ELT pipelines, or workflow orchestration tools (e.g., Prefect, Airflow).
• Supporting SOC 2 or similar compliance audits.
• Fintech, lending, payments, banking, or another highly regulated environment.

What Success Looks Like
You'll Be Successful When

• Our databases are stable, fast, and recover predictably when something goes wrong.
• Performance problems are caught early and fixed at the root.
• Database changes ship safely and routinely through automated pipelines.
• Database infrastructure is defined in code, and changes are repeatable and reviewable.
• Access to sensitive data is controlled and auditable.
• Engineers trust the data platform and know where to go for help.
• Database knowledge is documented and shared rather than concentrated with a few individuals.

The Person We're Looking For
You are an owner first.
You enjoy digging into execution plans and wait stats, but you also understand that the goal is reliable systems for the business.
You think about what happens when a server fails, a restore is needed, or a deployment goes wrong, not just when everything works.
You’d rather automate a task than do it twice.
Most importantly, you want the systems you run to keep performing reliably and scale as Clicklease grows.