SeniorStaffDatabaseEngineer

# **As passionate about our people as we are about our mission.** **_Why Join Q2?_** Q2 is a leading provider of digital banking and lending solutions to banks, credit unions, alternative finance companies, and fintechs in the U.S. and internationally. Our mission is simple: build strong and diverse communities through innovative financial technology—and we do that by empowering our people to help create success for our customers. **_What Makes Q2 Special?_** Being as passionate about our people as we are about our mission. We celebrate our employees in many ways, including our “Circle of Awesomeness” award ceremony and day of employee celebration among others! We invest in the growth and development of our team members through ongoing learning opportunities, mentorship programs, internal mobility, and meaningful leadership relationships. We also know that nothing builds trust and collaboration like having fun. We hold an annual Dodgeball for Charity event at our Q2 Stadium in Austin, inviting other local companies to play, and community organizations we support to raise money and awareness together. What You’ll Do * Identify, analyze, and resolve complex SQL performance and scalability issues * Deeply analyze execution plans, indexing strategies, concurrency, locking, and resource utilization * Design and implement durable performance improvements across queries, schemas, and workloads * Build automation and tooling to detect, diagnose, and remediate database performance issues * Partner with application and platform teams to improve database access patterns and system design * Establish, document, and enforce database performance best practices * Clearly explain complex technical concepts and trade-offs to both technical and non-technical audiences Required Expertise Candidates must demonstrate expert-level (“can teach a class”) knowledge in all the following: * SQL performance tuning and optimization * SQL Server, Postgres, Aurora * Query optimizers, execution pl