Associate Database Platform Developer
BlackRock is a company dedicated to helping people experience financial well-being. They are seeking an Associate Database Platform Developer to design, build, and maintain database-centric tooling and services that improve scalability and reliability across the database estate.
Responsibilities
- Contribute to the development and maintenance of internal database tooling, services, and automation used for provisioning, access management, schema changes, and operational validation
- Develop and enhance scripts, services, and utilities using Python, Perl, Java, or similar languages under the guidance of senior engineers
- Support ongoing modernization efforts by assisting with migration of legacy scripts and workflows into more scalable, service-based or API-driven solutions
- Assist application teams with database-related development needs, including schema design support, SQL review, and adherence to database development standards
- Help implement and maintain guardrails, validations, and checks that promote performance, reliability, and security across database platforms
- Learn and apply best practices across relational and cloud database technologies
- Support automation efforts focused on reducing manual operational work and improving consistency across environments
- Participate in incident analysis and contribute code fixes or tooling enhancements that prevent recurrence
- Help improve observability and transparency of database platforms through logging, monitoring integration, and tooling enhancements
- Work collaboratively with global DBA, platform, and application engineering teams across time zones
- Participate in code reviews, design discussions, and team knowledge-sharing forums
- Build technical depth across database platforms, development practices, and enterprise tooling
Skills
- Experience with one or more programming languages such as Python, Perl, or Java
- Basic understanding of relational database concepts including tables, indexes, transactions, and SQL
- Familiarity with software development fundamentals including version control, code reviews, and testing
- Strong problem-solving skills and willingness to learn enterprise database platforms and tooling
- Ability to work effectively in a team-based, large-scale technology environment
- Exposure to database platforms such as SQL Server, Snowflake, or similar enterprise databases
- Experience supporting or maintaining internal tools, scripts, or shared libraries
- Familiarity with APIs, automation frameworks, or CI/CD pipelines
- Interest in platform engineering, automation, and reducing operational toil through code
Benefits
- Annual discretionary bonus
- Healthcare
- Leave benefits
- Retirement benefits
- Strong retirement plan
- Tuition reimbursement
- Comprehensive healthcare
- Support for working parents
- Flexible Time Off (FTO)
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