Software Engineer

Join the NetJets Team

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Purpose of Position

Design and build software, automation, and platform capabilities that modernize how database services are delivered and operated across NetJets. This role is intended for a software engineer with a strong passion for database technologies who wants to apply engineering practices to database platforms, tooling, reliability, and administration. The Software Engineer will create reusable services, APIs, pipelines, infrastructure-as-code modules, and self-service workflows while developing hands-on knowledge of database administration, performance, security, availability, backup and recovery, and production operations across on-premises and cloud environments.

Engineering Focus
The primary focus is engineering solutions for database platforms rather than performing repetitive administration manually. Database administration knowledge remains important because it provides the operational context needed to design safe automation, resilient services, and effective controls.

Tasks and Responsibilities

• Design, develop, test, deploy, and support production-quality software and automation for database platform services.
• Build APIs, command-line tools, reusable libraries, infrastructure-as-code modules, and event-driven workflows that simplify database provisioning and lifecycle management.
• Create self-service capabilities for database requests such as provisioning, access, backup and recovery, refreshes, schema deployment, configuration changes, and decommissioning.
• Engineer CI/CD pipelines for database platform code and database changes, including automated testing, policy validation, security scanning, artifact management, approvals, and rollback controls.
• Automate database administration activities such as installation, configuration, patching, upgrades, backup validation, recovery testing, monitoring, compliance evidence, capacity management, and routine maintenance.
• Apply Git-based development, peer review, coding standards, automated testing, secure coding, observability, and software release practices to database tooling and services.
• Modernize database platforms through cloud adoption, managed database services, container and platform patterns, migration automation, standardized configurations, and retirement of legacy technologies.
• Improve reliability by engineering actionable telemetry, service-level indicators, dashboards, alerting, automated remediation, failure testing, and operational health checks.
• Use database administration knowledge to troubleshoot performance, availability, replication, backup and recovery, security, and production incidents, then convert recurring work into automation.
• Partner with application engineers, architects, security, cloud, infrastructure, and operations teams to define database service patterns and improve the developer experience.
• Create technical designs, engineering standards, architecture decisions, operational runbooks, support documentation, and measurable service outcomes.
• Participate in an on-call rotation and support NetJets global high-availability operations as necessary.

Note:

It is not possible to list all required job duties on this form. There may be other important duties assigned, depending on the position. For a list of essential job functions, please refer to the essential functions document for this job.

Education

Bachelor's in Computer Science or Computer Engineering

Certifications and Licenses

Years of Experience

2-4 years of experience

Core Competencies

Adaptability

Collaboration

Strives for Positive Results

Service-Oriented

Curiosity

Knowledge, Skills, Abilities and Other (KSAOs)

• 2-4 years of relevant experience in software engineering, platform engineering, DevOps, site reliability engineering, database engineering, database administration, or a related discipline.
• Relevant software engineering, cloud, DevOps, platform engineering, or database certifications are preferred but not required.
• Strong software engineering foundation, including object-oriented or modular design, data structures, error handling, testing, debugging, maintainability, and production support.
• Passion for database technologies and interest in applying software engineering to database automation, modernization, reliability, performance, security, and administration.
• Proficiency in at least one general-purpose programming language such as Python, Java, C#, Go, or JavaScript/TypeScript.
• Strong SQL skills and experience with PowerShell, Bash, or another scripting language used to automate technical operations.
• Experience with Git, pull requests, code review, unit and integration testing, CI/CD pipelines, code scanning, package or artifact management, and engineering documentation.
• Experience building automation through REST APIs, software development kits, command-line interfaces, Terraform, Ansible, or comparable frameworks.
• Knowledge of one or more database platforms such as Microsoft SQL Server, Oracle, PostgreSQL, MySQL, Amazon RDS/Aurora, or Snowflake.
• Foundational knowledge of database administration, including installation, configuration, schema design, indexing, query optimization, security, patching, backup and recovery, high availability, disaster recovery, monitoring, and capacity management.
• Ability to translate recurring operational procedures into reliable, tested, observable, and supportable software or automated workflows.
• Understanding of cloud and platform concepts, including identity and access management, networking, infrastructure as code, managed services, containers, Kubernetes, and secrets management.
• Experience designing telemetry and observability using logs, metrics, traces, dashboards, actionable alerts, service-level indicators, and automated remediation.
• Familiarity with database high-availability and replication technologies such as SQL Server Always On, Oracle RAC and Data Guard, PostgreSQL replication, Oracle GoldenGate, or cloud-managed equivalents is preferred.
• Familiarity with database migration services and patterns such as AWS Database Migration Service, schema conversion tools, replication, validation, cutover, and rollback is a plus.
• Strong analytical, troubleshooting, communication, and collaboration skills, with the ability to work effectively across engineering and operations teams.
• Ability to participate in an on-call rotation and respond calmly and effectively to production incidents.

How NetJets Supports You

NetJets is proud to provide a variety of attractive benefits to our employees, including many at no cost. Employees have access to no cost options including Medical, Dental, and Vision benefits, with access to robust networks of nationwide providers. NetJets offers benefits so you can LIVEWELL—a comprehensive package to support your Mind, Body, and Life.

Our comprehensive suite of benefits include:

• Medical, Dental, and Vision
• Healthcare Advocacy
• Employee Assistance Program
• Flexible Spending Accounts
• Health Savings Account with annual employer contribution
• Wellness Programs & Discounts
• Paid Time Off
• Parental Leave of Absence
• Life and Accident Insurance
• Voluntary benefits (financial protection plans)
• 401(k) plan, with 66% of every dollar you contribute matched by NetJets
• Short and Long-Term Disability
• Legal Plan
• Identity Theft Protection Plans
• Pet Insurance
• Family & Caregiving Support