Top 10 highest paying companies that use SQL Server

Pay Range: $180 - 200k USD. Health Care Plan (Medical, Dental & Vision), Retirement Plan (401k), Life Insurance (Basic, Voluntary & AD&D;), Paid Time Off, Short Term & Long-Term Disability, Training & Development, Wellness Resources.

At Vomela our greatest asset is our people. As a full-service visual communications company, we are looking for creative and intellectual thinkers that work with our customers to create compelling brand solutions and foster meaningful connections. And while you're focused on creating big things for global and local brands, we will help you build a career you can be passionate about. Apply now to find your place at Vomela. Job Summary The Principal Data Engineer is the highest-performing contributor on our data engineering team - the person who sets the technical bar, owns the data platform end to end, and delivers work that others study. You'll define and execute data strategy at the engineering level, operating as the technical point of the spear for how the organization builds, scales, and trusts its data. You write production code. You design the architecture. You solve the problems that block everyone else. You mentor without being asked, influence without authority, and deliver without handholding. You're a force multiplier and you're hungry to shape not just the platform, but the broader data strategy of the business. Microsoft Fabric is our data platform. This role is for someone genuinely energized by the Fabric ecosystem, who tracks its evolution closely and sees its breadth - Lakehouse’s, Event streams, Semantic models, Notebooks, Pipelines, Direct Lake as an opportunity, not a constraint. What You'll Do Design and implement dimensional models, star schemas, and snowflake schemas with rigor Build and maintain semantic models that serve as the single source of truth for business reporting Implement Slowly Changing Dimension (SCD) strategies appropriate to each domain Own master data engineering: golden record patterns, source-of-record authority, cross-system identity resolution Establish and enforce data modeling standards across the team Design and operate real-time and near-real-time pipelines using streaming technologies (Kafka, Confluent Cloud, Fabric Eventstreams) Relentlessly drive down data staleness in non-streaming scenarios through intelligent scheduling, incremental load optimization, and pipeline orchestration design Own performance tuning across the full stack — query optimization, partition strategy, indexing, Delta table compaction, semantic model refresh efficiency, and Direct Lake readiness Apply operational engineering discipline: pipeline observability, alerting, SLA definition, failure recovery, and capacity planning Design and implement controls appropriate for sensitive data (financials, PII, HIPAA, etc.) Build robust, scalable, observable ETL/ELT pipelines — watermark-based incremental loads, CDC patterns, batch and streaming architectures Ensure pipelines are idempotent, recoverable, and production-hardened Serve as the senior technical voice in code review — your approval carries weight Translate business requirements into semantic models and report-layer artifacts that non-technical users can trust and navigate Serve as the platform's primary technical interface across consumer groups: Power BI report builders, AI/ML developers, and application developers consuming data via SQL endpoints, REST APIs, or Direct Lake Define and enforce data contracts — schema stability, access patterns, SLAs — for each consumer class Own the developer experience of the platform: discoverability, documentation, and onboarding Required Microsoft Fabric: Lakehouses, Notebooks, Dataflows Gen2, Event streams, Semantic Models, Direct Lake mode Power BI: report development, dataset/semantic model design, DAX proficiency SQL Server / Azure SQL/Postgres: query optimization, schema design, stored procedures Azure DevOps: Git-based development workflows, CI/CD for data pipelines Demonstrated use of AI coding assistants in a production engineering workflow Ability to critically evaluate, edit, and improve AI-generated code and artifacts Clear understanding of where AI accelerates work and where it introduces risk Preferred Qualifications Familiarity with broader Azure Data Services (Azure Data Factory, Synapse Analytics, ADLS Gen2, Event Hubs) Experience in a private equity-backed or multi-entity portfolio company environment Exposure to MDM platforms (Profisee, Semarchy, Ataccama, or equivalent) Experience with Confluent Cloud / Apache Kafka for streaming ingestion into Fabric or Synapse Familiarity with cross-tenant Azure / Fabric architecture Background in business analysis, solutions architecture, or pre-sales engineering Microsoft Fabric or Azure Data Engineer certifications Benefits listed above

Base salary $119k–$164k per year; Full-time

Healthesystems provides medical cost management solutions for the workers' compensation industry, including PBM, Clinical Review Services, and Ancillary Benefits Management. The Principal Appian Engineer will establish and govern Appian design patterns, development standards, and platform governance across the organization, define best practices, enforce architectural principles, ensure consistency in Appian application development, and architect/implement integrations between Appian and existing technologies including containerized microservices on Kubernetes and SQL Server.

Base range: $88,400 - $162,100

Homesite Insurance (part of American Family Insurance) was founded in 1997 and was one of the first companies to enable customers to purchase home insurance directly online, during a single visit. We've got a newly created MLOps engineer position open on our Data Engineering team aligned to our Property Center of Excellence. This position will be responsible for building out highly scalable web services for insurance personalization models that will be leveraged across multiple companies in the American Family enterprise. There will also be some developer tooling work involved; as you will be integrating engineering rigor into our Data Science products and building repeatable patterns. Our stack: Languages: Python, SQL, Terraform, R (a little bit) Frameworks: FastAPI, Flask Datastores: ElasticSearch, Redis, SQL Server, BigQuery Deployment: Gitlab CI/CD, Kubernetes, Serverless

90k-160k

We are a software company that provides asset management solutions for the infrastructure and transportation industry. We are self-funded and have been growing for about 3 yrs at an explosive rate. Come join us and be a part of revolutionizing an industry. Qualifications/Requirements: - Expertise in at least one object-oriented language - Experience with Javascript Framework(s) - Experience with Git - Understanding of responsive design.

Salary range 90K - 150K

Xledger is a cloud ERP system expanding its team in Colorado Springs and seeking strong generalists to create best-in-class functionality. Onsite position only with no visa sponsorship. Requirements include a deep understanding of how the web works (HTTP, databases, caching, APIs), experience building and deploying several web applications, and comfort with relational databases (SQL Server and PostgreSQL). Bonus: experience with Clojure. Hiring process includes a few video interviews and often a short (30-60 LOC) work sample. Contact techjob.xledger@gmail.com with resume and links to work (e.g., GitHub).

Salary: 70k-140k. No visa sponsorship. Profitable, bootstrapped startup.

Embryo Options is helping fertility clinics manage their cryopreserved biological tissue, so they can focus on their patients. We're a profitable, bootstrapped startup, and we're looking to build-out our team as we ride the wave of the quickly-growing IVF market. We're currently 2 full time engineers, so you'll have the opportunity to immediately make an impact and you'll have ownership of projects that directly impact our clinics and patients. We currently use a mix of old and new technologies built on JavaScript, C#/.NET, SQL Server and deployed on AWS, and we're working on some new applications with .NET Core API and VueJS. If you're a product-focused engineer, looking to join a fast-moving team in a real, growing business then we'd love to hear from you! You can email me, Mike Gerbush (CTO), directly at mgerbush+hn@embryooptions.com.

$130K+

Established private medical software development shop looking for an expert in front end development. DOJO and Web Components expertise especially sought. CSS, HTML, XML, JSON; API development experience. React, Angular. .NET shop primarily, so C#, SQL Server, Azure DevOps experience are valuable. SQLite, GIT, as well. 10 years of overall software dev experience. Great company, great benefits, interesting work. 4 days/week remote, 1 day per week onsite (flexible though).

$120K, benefits, equity

Groopit is a rapidly growing enterprise SaaS business and we’re seeking a fast learning, motivated Software Engineer with an entrepreneurial spirit and positive attitude to jump in and join our team. We're a small team (two engineers) with deep industry experience and we will be expanding quickly. You should be comfortable working across backend, frontend, and mobile client stacks to build high-quality software. Our tech stack is ASP.NET Core (C#), SQL Server, Azure, Typescript and React, Kotlin (Android) and Swift (iOS) We offer competitive salary, benefits and equity. Familiarity with SAAS applications and integration with enterprise platforms such as Salesforce, Microsoft 365, or Okta is a plus. - BS degree in Computer Science or related field. - 3+ years' experience as a Software Engineer. Familiarity with software engineering tools, methodology and release processes. - Experience developing and deploying SAAS applications to enterprise customers.

$95,000–$115,000

Hiring a junior AI-native developer to extend an agentic AI copilot embedded in Architect AI, a portfolio-management web app. Work includes text-to-SQL over financial schemas (holdings, transactions, performance), RAG over internal docs, action tools, and deploying/operating the system on Linux + Docker. Must have real SQL skills, be able to read Python and evaluate AI-generated code, and show a public project demonstrating use of Claude Code/Cursor/Copilot to ship something. Reports directly to the Director of PM who built the system. Application includes a 5-minute pre-screen form with a quick SQL question.

90K-110K AUD

eBooks.com is a popular ebook retailer with a reputation for innovation, integrity and independence. A small, collaborative, harmonious team environment. Based primarily in Perth, but also London, Los Angeles and Melbourne. We're a smart, friendly and motivated team who enjoy the challenges of working in a competitive industry, up against One Huge Scary Competitor. Everyone has share options and, after a qualifying period, you can apply for a stake in the company too. Your day to day job will be working with our other devs on our retail site and back-end applications. We have one formal meeting per week, the rest of the time you collaborate as needed.