Senior Database Developer

Job Description

Overview 

CoStar Group (NASDAQ: CSGP) is a leading global provider of commercial and residential real estate information, analytics, and online marketplaces.  Included in the S&P 500 Index and the NASDAQ 100, CoStar Group is on a mission to digitize the world’s real estate, empowering all people to discover properties, insights and connections that improve their businesses and lives.  

We have been living and breathing the world of real estate information and online marketplaces for over 35 years, giving us the perspective to create truly unique and valuable offerings to our customers.  We’ve continually refined, transformed and perfected our approach to our business, creating a language that has become standard in our industry, for our customers, and even our competitors.  We continue that effort today and are always working to improve and drive innovation.  This is how we deliver for our customers, our employees, and investors.  By equipping the brightest minds with the best resources available, we provide an invaluable edge in real estate.  

We are searching for an experienced  Senior Database Developer to join our team and help us build the next generation of Customer Relations Management tools at CoStar. We have the industry’s largest set of Commercial Real Estate property data, which lets us create innovative products while solving challenging data engineering problems, such as high-volume data ingestion, data cleansing, real-time modeling/publication and high-performance, high-availability consumption of all this information.   

This position is in our Richmond, VA office and offers 3 days in office and 2 days remote schedule.

Responsibilities

• Designing, building, testing and deploying scalable, reusable and maintainable applications that handle large amounts of data.  
• Taking full ownership of your work, from development and testing to eventual deployment and support in production.  
• Collaborating with other engineers, product owners, designers, and leadership.  
• Becoming a trusted team member in matters of technical architecture, design, and code.  
• Advocating for evolution and improvement - both technical and non-technical - within our teams.  Includes new tech, tools and best practices.  

Basic Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree from an accredited, not for profit university or college
• 3+ years of experience troubleshooting common database issues 
• 3+ experience in developing, implementing, and optimizing views, stored procedures, and functions using T-SQL 
• Ability to analyze technical requirements and design new architectures, data models and ETL strategies
• Expertise in database design, complex T-SQL programming, performance tuning and index analysis 
• Facilitate discussions among database developers to exchange ideas and introduce new database technologies 
• A track record of commitment to prior employers

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with or knowledge of Agile Software Development methodologies. 
• Strong communication skills (to both business and technical partners) 
• Hands-on experience with cloud-based relational and non-relational databases such as S3, DynamoDB, or ElasticSearch
• Familiarity with designing data engineering solutions using C#, .NET Core, and Web API to support data integration, transformation, unit testing
• Experience developing and managing data streaming solutions using platforms such as Apache Kafka and Databricks, ensuring real-time data processing, high availability, and scalability

What’s in it for You 

When you join CoStar Group, you’ll experience a collaborative and innovative culture working alongside the best and brightest to empower our people and customers to succeed.  

We offer you generous compensation and performance-based incentives. CoStar Group also invests in your professional and academic growth with internal training, tuition reimbursement, and an inter-office exchange program.  

Our benefits package includes (but is not limited to):  

• Comprehensive healthcare coverage: Medical / Vision / Dental / Prescription Drug  
• Life, legal, and supplementary insurance  
• Virtual and in person mental health counseling services for individuals and family  
• Commuter and parking benefits  
• 401(K) retirement plan with matching contributions  
• Employee stock purchase plan  
• Paid time off  
• Tuition reimbursement  
• On-site fitness center and/or reimbursed fitness center membership costs (location dependent), with yoga studio, Pelotons, personal training, group exercise classes 
• Access to CoStar Group’s Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion Employee Resource Groups  
• Complimentary gourmet coffee, tea, hot chocolate, fresh fruit, and other healthy snacks  

We welcome all qualified candidates who are currently eligible to work full-time in the United States to apply.  However, please note that CoStar Group is not able to provide visa sponsorship for this position.  

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CoStar Group is an Equal Employment Opportunity Employer; we maintain a drug-free workplace and perform pre-employment substance abuse testing