Database Engineer

About the Technology Department

The Technology team at Bridgewater engineers systems to understand the world. These systems synthesize and industrialize our global understanding into a hive mind of macroeconomic knowledge which enables us to educate and collaborate with the world’s most influential central banks and policy makers and carefully and strategically manage the world’s most important capital. Our technologists are engineering highly available, high performing and highly secure cloud platforms and infrastructure which support and scale our investing operations.

About the Account Management Technology Team

The goal of the Account Management department is to translate our understanding of how the global economy works into strategy specific portfolios. Embedded within the Account Management department is a uniquely talented technology team that builds and manages the tools that allow our portfolio strategists, investors, and operations teams to create and test new portfolio strategies and logic, construct portfolios, and manifest our desired portfolios to securities we can trade in the markets.

About Your Role

The Database Engineer is responsible for architecting, building, operating and performance tuning an on-premise and cloud database platform as a service, specifically with the MS SQL Server database engine.  You will need to have a high proficiency in SQL, will be doing continual reviews of current and legacy application designs, will be improving performance and stability to ensure applications are running fast and will be proactively monitoring your systems to know about problems in advance of user impact.

You Will Drive the Following Responsibilities

• Provide Design & Engineering expertise for a centralized MS SQL Server Platform consisting of thousands of mission critical databases for financial research, portfolio management and trading 
• Automate build and operations functionality, delivered through in-house and third party tools to achieve uninterrupted DBMS Operations 
• Liaise with product managers and infrastructure engineering teams to integrate DBaaS into Bridgewater’s technology ecosystem 
• Work with the database migration team to help define and refine the strategy for migrating existing on-prem databases to the cloud 
• Provide database best practices & standards, performance testing and R&D to application developers 
• Provide mentoring and leadership and act as technical escalation point for DBA’s and software engineers  

Minimum Qualifications

• 10 years experience as an MS SQL Server Database DBA and Engineer (plan, build, operate) in mission critical multi-TB database environments 
• 5 years experience of Engineering and Automating large transactional and analytical database systems with exacting availability, security and performance SLAs including design, coding, unit testing and release management 
• 5 years experience with other data platforms: Azure SQL, NoSQL, Data and Software Migration off RDBMS, AWS DBs (e.g.,RDS) 
• Proven track record of database architectural design and performance assessments 
• Thorough understanding of SQL Server database internals 
• In depth experience of SQL Server stack on virtualized platforms 
• High proficiency in T-SQL, PowerShell Azure scripting 
• Self-motivation and the ability to learn and apply new technologies in a fast paced environment 
• Strong written, oral and presentation skills 
• Interested in challenges and excited by the responsibility of meeting the requirements of an exacting technology environment  

Physical Requirements

This role is offered with fully-remote flexibility and can be performed from anywhere within the United States. This approach is role specific and each team will have some slight variations that we will be able to describe in more detail throughout the recruiting process.

Bridgewater Employee Benefits

One of our core priorities at Bridgewater is to enable our employees to build a great life and career, and we believe our benefits are an important extension of that philosophy. As such, currently Bridgewater offers a competitive suite of benefits including:

• Health insurance with 100% premium covered and access to additional concierge medical services
• 401(k) plan with generous employer match
• Paid time off, including fully paid parental leave and a competitive PTO package
• Workplace flexibility and access to back up childcare
• Financial assistance for family building support, including adoption and egg freezing
• Workplace wellness, including on-site gyms, free meals and healthy snacks, and meditation rooms
• An engaged and active community that includes many company events, affinity networks, and extracurricular interest groups

Bridgewater reserves the right to change its current benefits program at any time, in a manner that is consistent with applicable federal and state regulations

About Bridgewater

Bridgewater Associates is a premier asset management firm, focused on delivering unique insight and partnership for the most sophisticated global institutional investors.

Our investment process is driven by a tireless pursuit to understand how the world’s markets and economies work — using cutting edge technology to validate and execute on timeless and universal investment principles.

Founded in 1975, we are a community of independent thinkers who share a commitment for excellence. By fostering a culture of openness, transparency, and inclusion, we strive to unlock the most complex questions in investment strategy, management, and corporate culture.

Explore more information about Bridgewater on our website here. 

Our Culture

Bridgewater’s unique success is the direct result of our unique way of being. We want an idea meritocracy in which meaningful work and meaningful relationships are pursued through radical truth and radical transparency. We require people to be extremely open, air disagreements, test each other’s logic, and view discovering mistakes and weaknesses as a good thing that leads to improvement and innovation. It is by continually striving together for the highest levels of truth and excellence that we create meaningful work and meaningful relationships. Within this culture, Diversity and Inclusion is a top priority because it is essential to finding the best talent in the world, enabling our idea meritocracy, and creating an environment where all types of people can thrive. We have a full-time team as well as affinity networks that work on these issues - If you would like to learn more, please let your Bridgewater recruiter know.

Explore more information about Bridgewater’s culture on our website here. 

This job description is not a contract and confers no contractual rights, privileges, or benefits on any applicant or potential applicant. Bridgewater has the right to change any and all terms of this job description, including, but not limited to, job responsibilities, qualifications and benefits. Nothing in this job description constitutes an offer or guarantee of employment. Please note that we do not provide immigration sponsorship for this position.

Bridgewater Associates, LP is an Equal Opportunity Employer