Associate Database Engineer

About the role

About us

At Auctane, we are united by a passion to help businesses deliver — whatever their size, wherever they are, and however they operate. We make it possible for businesses to meet the ever-changing requirements of their industry and customer expectations. Auctane products enable hundreds of thousands of businesses to annually mail and ship billions of items — over $200 billion worth — to recipients around the globe.

The Auctane family of mailing and shipping software products includes ShipStation, Stamps.com, ShipStation API, Metapack, GlobalPost, and Packlink. Our partners include Amazon, UPS, USPS, eBay, BigCommerce, Shopify, WooCommerce, and Walmart.

Our values

Win as One. Delight Customers. Deliver Great Outcomes.

About the role

As an Associate Database Engineer (DBE), you will support the maintenance, monitoring, and optimization of the organization's relational database systems. Working alongside experienced engineers, you will help ensure the integrity, availability, security, and performance of critical data that supports business operations. You will collaborate with IT teams and developers to troubleshoot database issues, perform routine maintenance, and contribute to database improvements. This role offers an opportunity to develop practical skills in PostgreSQL and SQL Server database management systems hosted in AWS, particularly Amazon RDS. The ideal candidate will have a basic understanding of relational databases, good problem-solving skills, and a willingness to learn and grow in a collaborative engineering environment.

This is an Associate level role. The salary is up to 11K PLN gross per month

What will you be doing?

- Assist in developing and maintaining database schemas, tables, and indexes while following established standards and best practices.

- Support database security measures, including user access management, permissions, and data protection.

- Monitor database health and performance using existing monitoring tools. Identify potential issues, analyze basic performance metrics, and escalate complex problems to experienced engineers.

- Assist in troubleshooting database issues such as slow queries, database locks, and resource contention under the guidance of senior team members.

- Support database performance optimization through basic query tuning, index maintenance, and analysis of query execution plans.

- Write, maintain, and troubleshoot SQL queries and stored procedures to efficiently retrieve and manipulate data.

- Assist in configuring and maintaining database replication, high availability, and failover mechanisms to ensure data availability and reliability.

- Participate in code reviews to learn and apply database best practices, performance guidelines, and data access patterns.

- Collaborate with software developers to understand application requirements and support database schema design and development activities.