Database Engineer – GSE (Ground Support Engineer)

Duties And Responsibilities

• Design, develop, deploy, and maintain databases supporting production automation, manufacturing workflows, engineering operations, test systems, and product traceability.
• Develop database schemas, data models, relationships, indexing strategies, and data access architectures for internal engineering and production systems.
• Support internal software tools that interface with production and engineering databases.
• Build and maintain APIs, services, or backend integrations that connect automation tools, engineering applications, production systems, and reporting workflows.
• Optimize database performance, reliability, backup strategies, availability, and long-term maintainability.
• Support data integrity, access control, configuration management, and operational continuity.
• Troubleshoot issues involving application/database interactions, schema design, performance bottlenecks, connectivity, and automation workflows.
• Partner with engineering, production, quality, and software teams to define scalable data workflows and process automation solutions.
• Maintain technical documentation for schemas, interfaces, architecture, deployment, backup, and operational procedures.
• Perform other duties as assigned.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Computer Engineering, Information Systems, or related technical discipline, or equivalent practical experience.
• 0-2 years of experience designing, developing, and maintaining production or engineering database systems.
• Strong experience with relational database systems such as PostgreSQL, MySQL, SQL Server, or similar platforms.
• Experience with schema design, indexing, normalization, query optimization, backup/recovery, and database performance tuning.
• Experience developing software or backend services that interact with database systems.
• Experience troubleshooting database-backed applications in operational environments.
• Strong understanding of data integrity, transactional systems, access control, and reliability practices.
• Strong communication, documentation, and problem-solving skills.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience supporting manufacturing, test automation, engineering operations, production systems, or traceability workflows.
• Experience developing APIs, backend applications, automation integrations, or internal engineering software.
• Familiarity with Python, C#, Java, JavaScript, PowerShell, or similar development languages.
• Experience with web applications, dashboards, reporting tools, or internal automation systems.
• Experience in aerospace, defense, electronics manufacturing, or high-reliability technical environments.
• Familiarity with ERP, PLM, MES, quality systems, or engineering data workflows.
• Experience with cloud-hosted or hybrid database deployments.
• Strong systems thinking and ability to work across software, production, and engineering domains.