# Database Engineer, Public Sector at Exiger

- Company: Exiger
- What the company does: Making the World a Safe and Transparent Place to Succeed. Backed by Insight.
- Company website: https://www.exiger.com/
- Type: Startups
- Level: Mid level
- Location: McLean, Virginia, United States; New York, New York, United States; Richmond, Virginia, United States
- Work setup: On-site
- Posted: 2026-08-21
- Apply by: 2026-10-08
- Apply: https://www.exiger.com/careers/6150395004?gh_jid=6150395004
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/exiger-database-engineer-public-sector/

## About the role

We are hiring a Database Engineer to own the data plane patterns our federal programs run on. Rather than administering one program's databases, you will build the database engineering practice that every program inherits: reference schema conventions, replication and recovery patterns proven by real drills, zero-downtime migration tooling, and the security posture that keeps production data stores authorizable inside a FedRAMP boundary.

## What they're looking for

- Own the reference database posture programs adopt: instance design, replication topology, parameter tuning, connection management, query plan health
- Set and govern schema conventions across programs. Treat schema as an interface other engineers consume, and the conventions as a product they inherit
- Build the backup, restore, and disaster-recovery patterns as reusable tooling, proven by real recovery drills, not program-by-program improvisation
- Own database security patterns inside the FedRAMP boundary: encryption at rest and in transit, least-privilege access, audit logging, replicated across engagements
- Build and maintain zero-downtime migration and schema change tooling program teams use on live traffic
- Partner with Platform Engineering on the shared infrastructure seam (cluster topology, parameter groups, snapshot policy, monitoring) and with Data Engineering on the production-to-analytics seam

Tags: Delivery: EGS Delivery