Database engineer Jobs in Washington, DC

Peregrine Advisors is a firm founded on a simple conviction: the best solutions come from the people closest to the problem, given real ownership and the tools to deliver. We are a data and technology innovation hub and a Benefit Corporation working at the center of the federal government's mission to deliver for client stakeholders and the US public, looking for highly motivated contributors who thrive when trusted to own a hard problem and equipped to deliver the solution.

Your first assignment

In your first assignment, you will own the queries, stored procedures, views, and logical data models for your assigned part of a federal agency's enterprise data platform. You will build and maintain these components in Amazon Aurora and the platform stores alongside it, taking responsibility for their accuracy and performance. You will make database-design decisions within the established platform architecture and carry your work through implementation and ongoing maintenance. The work is real and hard, and it matters. This first assignment is a starting point, not the shape of your career here. We hire people, not seats, and move our best to where the hardest problems are.

What you'll build

• Reliable Structured Query Language (SQL) queries, stored procedures, and views in Amazon Aurora (PostgreSQL-compatible) that work with DynamoDB, Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3), and Apache Iceberg tables and turn raw data into something people can use.
• Logical data models and database schemas for your assigned components, designed to keep the relational and platform stores working together within the established platform architecture.
• Tuned queries, S3 data loads into the platform stores, and connectivity, all under governed access.
• And over time, the firm itself, through the new capabilities, tools, and lines of business you help launch.

Who you are

You enjoy building with SQL and take responsibility for getting data right. You can take a database problem from design through delivery and stand behind how your work performs. You experiment, learn from failure, and try again quickly. You would rather own an outcome than simply be given a task.

What you bring

• Solid SQL on a modern relational platform, Amazon Aurora (PostgreSQL-compatible), with stored procedures and views that hold up in use.
• Practical skill in query tuning, data loading, and connectivity, with version control and clean delivery.
• Practical experience developing logical data models and database schemas, and making physical-design decisions for assigned components within the established platform architecture.
• The ability to own assigned database work from design through maintenance, with sound judgment where accuracy and auditability are not optional.

What you'll need

Sole United States citizenship and the ability to obtain a Public Trust determination are required for this initial engagement. This is a hybrid role based in the Washington, DC metropolitan area, and it requires commuting into DC regularly. Everything else, including the years, certifications, and specific tools, we ask in the application and discuss during the interview.

What we offer

A high-performing team of developers, engineers, data scientists, architects, and strategists solving complex, real-world problems, with work that runs from strategy formulation to hands-on implementation. We develop people across roles and clients, with extensive onboarding and sponsored training and professional development. And Peregrine has been a Benefit Corporation from day one: public value is built into the work itself, not bolted on afterward. Work worth your best years.

What we commit to

As a Benefit Corporation, our commitment runs three ways: real, measurable value for our clients; government that works better for the public; and a team that makes everyone in it better.

We hire people who want to help build the firm, not just work at it. If that is you, apply.

Peregrine Advisors is an equal opportunity employer.

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Requirements

• At least four years of database development experience
• Bachelor's degree
• SQL on Amazon Aurora (PostgreSQL-compatible), working with DynamoDB, S3, and Apache Iceberg tables
• Stored procedures, views, and query tuning
• Data loading from S3 into the platform stores, plus Open Database Connectivity (ODBC) and Java Database Connectivity (JDBC)
• Logical data modeling and database-design decisions for assigned components within an established platform architecture
• Basic proficiency in writing, PowerPoint, and Excel

Preferred

• Physical-design ownership of Aurora and Iceberg stores, or the drive to grow into it
• Access governed by Apache Ranger
• Federal information technology or high-volume transaction experience
• Familiarity with artificial intelligence (AI)-assisted developer tooling

Benefits

Medical, dental, and vision with the employee premium fully paid and half of dependent premiums; employer-paid life, accidental death, and short-term and long-term disability insurance; a 401(k) matched 100% up to 4% of salary, vesting immediately; unlimited paid time off; and sponsored professional certifications and continuing education.