FULL TIME|Yerevan, Armenia · Remote|Posted 5/15/2026
Frontline Data Solutions /Principal Database Engineer
Overview
Frontline Data Solutions is looking for a Principal Database Engineer to design, optimize, and maintain the databases that power its software platform. This role is highly technical and focused on building reliable, scalable, secure, and high-performance data systems that support both the product and customers. The ideal candidate has deep SQL Server expertise, strong database architecture skills, and extensive experience improving legacy systems and high-availability database environments.
Responsibilities
- - Design and evolve database schemas and data models for new product features and long-term scalability.
- - Optimize database performance through query tuning, indexing strategies, and configuration improvements.
- - Analyze execution plans and improve data workflows in collaboration with engineering teams.
- - Implement and maintain backups, disaster recovery, replication, and high-availability processes.
- - Monitor database health and troubleshoot production incidents.
- - Manage database upgrades, patches, migrations, and operational improvements across environments.
- - Improve legacy database systems incrementally while maintaining reliability.
- - Work closely with Product, Engineering, and Technical Services teams to align data solutions with platform and customer needs.
- - Support secure, reliable, and scalable data systems for a SaaS platform.
Requirements
- - 10+ years of experience with SQL Server and similar relational database systems.
- - Expert-level SQL knowledge, including query tuning, indexing, and execution plan analysis.
- - Strong background in database performance engineering.
- - Experience with database schema design, data modeling, and optimization.
- - Strong knowledge of high-availability database architectures.
- - Experience with replication, read replicas, and Availability Groups.
- - Proven ability to modernize and improve legacy databases.
- - Experience monitoring database health, troubleshooting incidents, and managing migrations.
- - Ability to explain complex database concepts clearly to technical and non-technical teams.
- - Strong collaboration skills with engineering, product, and technical services teams.
Skills
SQLServerDatabaseEngineeringArchitectureQueryTuningIndexingExecutionPlanAnalysisPerformanceDataModelingSchemaDesignHighAvailabilityReplicationReadReplicasGroupsBackupandRecoveryDisasterMonitoringMigrationLegacySystemModernizationSaaSOptimizationTroubleshootingCross-FunctionalCollaboration
Frontline Data Solutions
Frontline Data Solutions is a provider of web-based EHS software for businesses in high-risk and heavily regulated industries, including oil and gas, chemicals, manufacturing, and renewable energy. The company helps organizations digitize health, safety, environmental, and compliance processes through practical tools for action tracking, management of change, learning management, contractor safety management, and broader EHS operations. Frontline’s platform is designed to reduce paperwork, improve visibility into risk, simplify compliance, and support safer frontline workplaces.