Database Engineer
- Compensation
- Not disclosed
- Location
- Sydney NSW
- Work setup
- Onsite
- Seniority
- Not specified
- Employment
- Contract
- Experience
- Not specified
- Category
- Devops
- Posted
Skills
Must have
- Strong DBA experience across AWS RDS, particularly MySQL and SQL Server. Experience with Aurora PostgreSQL is highly regarded.
- Proven experience with database performance tuning, query optimisation, indexing, upgrades, backup and recovery.
- A track record of supporting production databases through a ticket queue and resolving issues against agreed SLAs.
- Hands-on experience with database monitoring and alerting for health, performance, availability, connections, storage and long-running queries.
- Practical experience with Snowflake and dbt in a production environment.
- Strong Python capability and advanced SQL skills.
- Experience with AWS data services and infrastructure as code, using Terraform, CloudFormation or equivalent.
- Daily, practical use of AI development tools such as Claude Code, GitHub Copilot or MCP-connected agents.
- Awareness of ISO 27001 obligations when handling sensitive data.
- Clear communication skills, with the ability to work effectively with technical and non-technical stakeholders.
Nice to have
- Kafka, streaming and change-data-capture experience.
- Experience with data quality frameworks, schema evolution or contract testing.
- Experience working with HR technology, payroll, SaaS or other sensitive employee data.
- Practical experience applying AI to data engineering, database operations or developer productivity.
Full description
Who we are…
Founded in 2002, ELMO Software is the trusted provider of HR technology solutions to 2,000+ mid-sized organisations and more than one million end users across Australia and New Zealand.With a comprehensive suite of ISO-certified solutions that span the full employee lifecycle, ELMO Software is designed to scale as organisations grow. Flexible and configurable, ELMO’s one-stop HRIS fits to your specific needs and workflows.Through powerful technology, automation, data and analytics, ELMO Software empowers HR professionals to play an integral role in company decision making.
Life & Culture...
At ELMO you will be joining an epic team with the opportunity to make a big impact. We foster an authentic, collaborative, fun working environment and being an ELMOnian means you're part of an amazing team that will push you to grow, support you with challenges and allow you to shine. Some of our benefits include:
- Hybrid work set up
- Paid Parental leave - 12 weeks primary, 6 weeks secondary
- Birthday leave, YOU day each year, as well as connecting people leave (up to 2 weeks working from anywhere)
- Inhouse Learning and Development initiatives
- ELMO Social and Diversity clubs
- Wellbeing initiatives
- Mental Health/EAP programs
- Flare Benefits (great discounts, novated leasing, salary sacrifice)
Our values:
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Reimagine What's Possible - We believe innovation is human at its core. By staying open, fearless, and adaptive, we continuously push boundaries - while keeping people at the heart of everything we do.
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Obsess over Customers – Everything we do is designed to positively impact our customers.
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Help Others Thrive - Be they colleagues, communities or customers, we champion ways to help others thrive.
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Be Fearlessly Optimistic - We bring unwavering positivity to any challenge, as we know it will drive meaningful change.
Please note: Our internal Talent Acquisition team has got this covered, we’re not open to using an agency for this role.
The Opportunity
ELMO’s HR and payroll platform runs on AWS RDS across MySQL, SQL Server and PostgreSQL, supported by a Snowflake data warehouse. We’re looking for a hands-on database expert who has grown into the modern data stack who can tune a slow query, resolve a production issue within SLA and build the pipelines that power our analytics and AI products.