Sr. Database Administrator - TrainingPeaks

Are you ready to work on a product impacting millions of people? At TrainingPeaks our user base of athletes and coaches is growing rapidly. To meet their demands TrainingPeaks needs innovators, collaborators, and excellent engineers like you. Together we’re building the world’s best training platform. Join TrainingPeaks today.

You may know us as TrainingPeaks, MakeMusic, TrainHeroic and Alfred Music. All these brands are under the Peaksware umbrella. TrainingPeaks develops software for coaches and athletes to track, analyze and plan endurance training. TrainHeroic develops software solutions for the strength and conditioning needs of coaches and athletes. MakeMusic develops software to transform how music is composed, taught, learned and performed. Alfred Music creates and publishes educational music to help teachers, students, professionals and hobbyists experience the joy of making music.

We would love to have you join our ever-growing team! All applicants will receive equal consideration for employment regardless of gender, race, national origin, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, physical disability, religion, or length of time spent unemployed.

General Summary

As a Sr. Database Administrator, you will be responsible for all aspects of our data. Data is at the heart of what we do and you will be responsible for performance, management, integrity and security of our data. You will work with our product development teams and principal engineers to create data solutions that allow the teams and customers to scale. You must be flexible and willing to take on whatever responsibilities are needed to enable the company’s offerings.

You are a continuous learner with a hunger for knowledge. You approach challenges as opportunities to improve. You take initiative and are driven to make regular, measurable progress.You know this is a team game and thrive in a collaborative environment. You routinely share your experience and knowledge with others. You deliver your very best work daily, and expect others to do the same.

You will sit directly with the SRE team and will work in close collaboration with Principal Engineers and engineering teams, and report to the Sr. Manager, SRE.

Core Functions 

• Ownership of database maintenance, security, backup and recovery, and performance monitoring.
• Triage and resolve platform issues, from a database perspective.

• Work closely with developers to optimize queries and performance.
• Perform large data migrations while minimizing customer impact.
• Collaborate with developers to ensure standards and best practices are applied for architecting new databases or modifying existing databases.

• Design, build, and improve the relational and dimensional data modeling.
• Ethically handle data privacy, including compliance with regulations such as GDPR.
• Work closely with the Data Analytics team to ensure a seamless flow of information that provides the business with insights for decision-making. 
• Maintain clear and comprehensive system documentation.

The work characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job.  Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.  

Requirements

• Extensive experience in MSSQL and MySQL database administration. 
• Deep experience with database design, architecture, and optimization.
• Experience with cloud-native solutions, specifically AWS Relational Database Service (RDS).

Degrees are not required and we value all forms of continued education including traditional four-year degrees, post-graduate degrees, associate degrees, bootcamps, online training, professional certifications, self-teaching, and more.

Don’t meet every single requirement? Don’t worry. We still want to hear from you and encourage you to apply.

Benefits

Compensation

Peaksware/TrainingPeaks is committed to fair and equitable compensation practices. The salary range for this role is $94,874 - $158,124. Final compensation for this role will be determined by various factors such as a candidate’s relevant work experience, skills, and certifications.

This role is eligible for variable compensation including bonus.

Benefits and Perks

Health

• 100% company-paid Medical for employees with buy-up options
• Dental
• Vision
• Health Savings Account
• Flexible Spending Account
• Dependent Care Flexible Spending Account
• Paid Parental Leave
• Teladoc
• Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
• Additional coverage options such as accident and critical illness insurance and hospital indemnity

Disability and Life

• Company-paid Short Term Disability
• Company-paid Long Term Disability
• Company-paid Basic Life Insurance and AD&D
• Employee-paid Supplemental Life Insurance for Employee, Spouse, and/or Child

Additional

• 401(K)
• 401(K) Matching
• Pet Insurance
• 9 paid holidays annually and unlimited Flexible Time Off (FTO)
• Free TrainingPeaks, TrainHeroic, MakeMusic accounts, and Alfred Music product
• Access to the Performance and Recovery Center (PARC), our on-site fitness facility
• Employee only access to on-site locker rooms and showers
• Employee only access to secure, indoor bike storage
• Access to our onsite Music Studio
• An assortment of “grab’n go” fruit and snacks as well as on tap cold brew, kombucha, and beer.
• Beautiful onsite cafe that includes indoor and outdoor seating and lounge areas.
• Access to e-bikes available exclusively to Peaksware employees
• Significant investment in resources for employee growth and development
• Corporate discounts on select gym memberships and top brand gear
• Flexible work schedule in a culture of trust

Please contact careers@peaksware.com if you require a reasonable accommodation to review our website or to apply online.

Work Environment

This job operates in a professional office environment that is well-lighted, heated, and/or air-conditioned with adequate ventilation and a noise level that is usually moderate. This role routinely uses standard office equipment such as computers, phones, photocopiers and filing cabinets.

All employees must comply with all safety policies, practices and procedures. Report all unsafe activities to your manager and/or Human Resources.

Physical Demands

While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to sit and move about the facility; use hands to handle, or feel; talk by expressing ideas by means of the spoken word; and hear by perceiving the nature of sounds. The employee is occasionally required to stand, walk, and reach with hands and arms. The employee must occasionally lift and/or move up to 10 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and ability to adjust focus.

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