Database Engineer

Our client, an autonomous vehicle company, is looking for someone to join their team as a Database Engineer in Foster City, CA! This is a W2 contract budgeted until January 15th, 2027 In this role, you'll design, create, and maintain internal processes, integrations, and applications. You'll develop back-end components to improve existing applications and implement security best practices to existing applications all while creating standards to improve existing architecture to ensure consistency across internal applications and data integrity. What You Will Be Doing • Design, create, and maintain processes, integrations, applications and scripts, mostly on the backend with Python • Deploy cloud resources mostly with Terraform • Some frontend (JS, React, Typescript) • Design system requirements for new and existing applications • Create and implement company-wide tools and methodologies • Oversee, and often perform, major application installations and upgrades • Develop applications supporting physical product design, manufacturing, logistics, and inventory systems • Review peer code Required Skills & Experience • Strong knowledge of Python and web frameworks such as Flask and Django • API development experience in Python (graphql, REST) • Experience with SQL/NoSQL databases (MySQL, Postgres, DynamoDB) • Understanding of ORM (object-relational mapping) libraries such as SQLAlchemy • Excellent python coding skills and understanding of python best practices • Cloud (AWS) development and deployment experience • General frontend development knowledge (React, TypeScript) • Good communication skills, and ability to collect requirements from customers • Great customer service skills as it relates to application support and training • Experience with docker or similar container-based systems Preferred Skills & Experience ● AWS networking fundamentals. ● Experience with Terraform Cloud and IaC workflows. ● Automation/scripting with Python or Shell. ● CI/CD for databases (e.g., Bamboo, Flyway, or similar).