Taylor's Pub

Job Summary:
Balyasny Asset Management L.P. is transforming its database services through a standardized platform. They are seeking a Senior Database Platform Engineer to design, build, and operate their database platform with a focus on automated solutions and declarative management.
Responsibilities:
• Design and operate SQL Server and Snowflake workloads, developing automated provisioning and lifecycle management solutions.
• Implement high-availability solutions and declarative management across SQL Server and Snowflake.
• Own and drive declarative, state-based database deployment practices as a first-class engineering discipline. All schema changes must be version-controlled, auditable, repeatable, and automatically applied using Flyway, Liquibase, or Atlas.
• Treat database schema as code: no manual changes, no drift.
• Provision and manage database infrastructure using Terraform, ensuring structured, repeatable, and version-controlled deployments.
• Develop GitOps workflows and observability pipelines for comprehensive monitoring using OpenTelemetry, Loki, Prometheus, and Grafana.
• Create migration tools for transitioning from VMs and managed services to our platform.
• Build self-service interfaces and implement security controls within database environments.
Qualifications:
Required:
• Deep expertise in SQL Server. Performance tuning, indexing strategies, Always On AG, replication, and security hardening.
• Strong hands-on experience with Snowflake. Data modelling, Snowpipe, dynamic tables, RBAC, and cost optimisation.
• Proficiency with Terraform for database infrastructure provisioning and lifecycle management.
• Proven, hands-on experience with declarative and state-based database deployments. Production experience with Flyway, Liquibase, or Atlas.
• Strong understanding of schema-as-code principles: versioned migrations, idempotent scripts, environment promotion, and drift detection.
• Strong Powershell and/or Python skills for automation and problem-solving; Go experience is a plus.
• Proficiency with CI/CD processes and GitOps workflows integrating database deployments into DevOps pipelines.
Preferred:
• Experience with PostgreSQL. Administration, performance tuning, and replication; the team operates across multiple database technologies and cross-skilling is actively encouraged.
• Familiarity with Redis. Operational experience with caching, pub/sub, and persistence patterns.
• Exposure to Kubernetes. Pods, deployments, stateful sets, and operators; the team is expanding its container orchestration footprint and this will become increasingly relevant.
• Build data lakehouse solutions (Apache Iceberg) and implement query federation capabilities (Trino).
• Familiarity with Apache Airflow and dbt for orchestration and data transformation.
• Experience with analytical databases like ClickHouse.
• Competence with monitoring solutions: Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry, and Loki.
• Ability to leverage reporting tools such as PowerBI or Tableau for enhanced data insights.
Company:
Balyasny Asset Management (BAM) is a diversified global investment firm founded in 2001 by Dmitry Balyasny, Scott Schroeder, and Taylor O'Malley. Founded in 2001, the company is headquartered in Chicago, USA, with a team of 1001-5000 employees. The company is currently Late Stage.