SQL Server Performance Engineer

SQL Server Performance Engineer - Cloud Operations
Escher Group Boston (Hybrid/Remote)

Escher Group
Escher powers the world's first and last mile deliveries, helping Posts connect nearly 1 billion consumers with global ecommerce networks. Postal operators rely on Escher to deliver an enhanced retail and digital customer experience, to activate new revenue streams, and to realize new delivery economics. Learn more at .

Your Opportunity
We're seeking a SQL Server Performance Engineer to help analyze and improve the scalability, concurrency, and operational reliability of our high-volume SQL Server systems deployed in Azure and AWS. This role is perfect for someone early in their career who's eager to dive deep into performance bottlenecks, query tuning, and cloud database operations.

Duties and Responsibilities

• Analyze and report on SQL Server performance across production and test environments

• Investigate concurrency issues and recommend tuning strategies for optimal throughput

• Strong knowledge of SQL and database technologies to implement recommended performance improvements.

• Monitor SQL Server health, including deadlocks, wait stats, and long-running queries

• Assist in benchmarking and load testing to simulate large-scale workloads

• Collaborate with senior architects and developers to design and implement improvements

• Document findings and performance baselines for future analysis

• Help automate monitoring and alerting tools in the cloud

Qualifications

• 4+ years working with Microsoft SQL Server in a developer, DBA, or analyst role

• Solid understanding of T-SQL, execution plans, and query performance tuning
Familiarity with Azure SQL, Amazon RDS, or other cloud database platforms

• Good problem-solving and communication skills
Technical Skills:

• Microsoft SQL Server Expertise: Strong proficiency in SQL and related database technologies

• Knowledge of data and analytical cloud platform solutions

• Knowledge of tools and techniques to analysis performance of SQL solutions.
Soft Skills:

• Team Collaboration: Ability to work effectively within cross-functional teams.

• Eagerness to learn and grow within a high-performing team

• Communication: Strong communication skills, especially in client-facing interactions, with English as the primary language.
Educational Background:

• A Bachelor or Master of Science in Computer Science or a related field is required.

Why Join Escher?
At Escher, you'll be part of a global team with employees on four continents supporting customers from across 35 countries. Here, people truly are our greatest strength, and we mean it. At Escher, you'll have the support of an experienced leadership team and a group of dedicated employees that have been helping postal operators redefine customer engagement for over 30 years.

What We Have to Offer

Escher offers a competitive compensation package, training allowance and free coffee and snacks when in the office, and so much more. Most importantly, a career at Escher is one that is both rich and rewarding with many opportunities and room for growth. This is truly a unique opportunity to be part of an exceptional team, helping to transform some of the biggest organizations in the world, and influencing the future of postal operations. If you're up for the challenge, we want to hear from you.

Escher is an equal opportunity employer. We will not discriminate and will take affirmative actions and measures to ensure against discrimination in employment, recruitment, advertisements for employment, compensation, termination, upgrading, promotions, and other conditions of employment against any employee or job applicant on the basis of race, color, gender, national origin, age, religion, creed, disability, veteran's status, sexual orientation, gender identity or gender expression.