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# SQL Support Engineer

- **Company:** Motion Recruitment Partners LLC.
- **Location:** Charlotte, NC, United States (Remote available)
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Contract:** Temporary contract
- **Skills:** Application Programming Interfaces (APIs), Big Data, Databases, Database Queries, PostgreSQL, Performance Tuning, Query Optimization, SQL Databases, Freeform SQL, Database Optimization, Database Monitoring
- **Published:** September 3, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.dice.com/job-detail/9cb9db6a-e16e-461f-b601-d3e89b77d2e8

## About the Role

* 8+ years enterprise SQL engineering experience
 * Deep PostgreSQL expertise
 * DBT transformation experience
 * Advanced query tuning and performance diagnostics
 * Experience in financial or regulated environments
 * Prior Level 2/3 SQL Support in large environments desired

## Description

The Senior Database Engineer is responsible for enterprise SQL engineering, DBT transformation integrity, and PostgreSQL performance optimization. This role serves as the primary authority on schema design, indexing strategies, and large-scale data operations., * Design and optimize complex SQL queries supporting APIs and DBT models

 * Analyze execution plans and tune high-volume workloads
 * Implement indexing and partitioning strategies
 * Conduct database health assessments and capacity planning
 * Develop SQL investigation playbooks for L2 escalations

Deliverables & Outcomes:

 * Reduce DBT runtime and transformation failures
 * Improve database query performance
 * Structure database monitoring and maintenance procedures
 * SQL diagnostics documentation and runbooks


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