Description

Required

• Bachelor’s degree in an engineering or computer science discipline and/or equivalent professional experience
• 7+ years of combined software engineering and/or infrastructure engineering experience, including hands-on experience with at least one distributed or document-oriented database technology (e.g., Couchbase, MongoDB, Cassandra, DocumentDB, or Cosmos DB)
• Strong experience with Infrastructure as Code (particularly Terraform), CI/CD pipelines, and cloud infrastructure (preferably AWS), with proficiency in at least one general-purpose programming or scripting language (Python, Go, or equivalent)

Preferred

• Experience with Couchbase Server or Couchbase Capella, and/or AWS managed database services (Aurora, DocumentDB, ElastiCache)
• Experience with event-driven systems, workflow orchestration frameworks, database schema/change management tools (e.g., Liquibase), or compliance automation and policy-as-code tooling
• Prior involvement in large-scale database migrations in production environments, or backend software development experience (Java, Node.js, Python, or equivalent)

CORE WORK ACTIVITIES

• Contribute to the design and build of database infrastructure provisioning modules and automation pipelines, encoding platform standards for security, availability, and cost
• Implement CI/CD automation to standardize and safely deliver database platform changes across environments
• Enable self-service database capabilities that allow application teams to execute routine operations independently through Marriott’s Internal Developer Platform
• Build platform tooling that gives application teams visibility into their database health, security posture, and compliance standing
• Support strategic database migrations — including planning, production cutovers, and post-migration validation — in close cooperation with SRE and application teams
• Contribute to the development of migration patterns and standards that can be executed consistently at scale
• Develop guidance artifacts and prescriptive documentation for supported database platforms
• Participate in working sessions with application teams on database architecture, performance, and operational readiness
• Partner with application teams to identify and close compliance gaps against platform standards
• Support the design and maintenance of automated disaster recovery capabilities for production database platforms
• Partner with SRE teams on monitoring, alerting, reliability, incident management, and post-incident analysis
• Ensure database platforms are secure-by-default and aligned with enterprise security and compliance standards
• Integrate database services with IAM controls, networking, and configuration management systems
• Contribute to technical discussions, shared documentation, engineering standards, and patterns
• Collaborate with product owners and leadership on roadmap inputs and technical prioritization

Key Skills

Education

Bachelor's degree