Job Description
About the role
As our Senior Database Engineer, you move TOPdesk from a reactive, outlier-hunting posture on database performance and cost to structural, proactive management of the Azure SQL estate — balancing performance, cost efficiency, and developer enablement across our hybrid SaaS environment.
Azure SQL is a material portion of TOPdesk's hosting cost and the foundation of our customer-facing performance. Today, much of our optimisation happens when something breaks; this role gets ahead of that. Deep database performance engineering is a specialist craft, and this role brings it in-house as we decompose a long-tenured Java / MS SQL heritage platform into microservices.
What this is not: A ticket-driven, request-by-request DBA role. The mission is structural ownership of the Azure SQL estate, not break-fix.
On AI: Deep database expertise is the primary selection criterion. Familiarity wit...
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