BlackRock is a company focused on helping individuals achieve financial well-being. They are seeking an Associate Database Platform Developer to design, build, and maintain database-centric tooling and services that improve scalability, reliability, and developer productivity across their database estate.
Responsibilities
- Contribute to the development and maintenance of internal database tooling, services, and automation used for provisioning, access management, schema changes, and operational validation
- Develop and enhance scripts, services, and utilities using Python, Perl, Java, or similar languages under the guidance of senior engineers
- Support ongoing modernization efforts by assisting with migration of legacy scripts and workflows into more scalable, service-based or API-driven solutions
- Assist application teams with database-related development needs, including schema design support, SQL review, and adherence to database development standards
- Help implement and maintain guardrails, validations, and checks that promote performance, reliability, and security across database platforms
- Learn and apply best practices across relational and cloud database technologies
- Support automation efforts focused on reducing manual operational work and improving consistency across environments
- Participate in incident analysis and contribute code fixes or tooling enhancements that prevent recurrence
- Help improve observability and transparency of database platforms through logging, monitoring integration, and tooling enhancements
- Work collaboratively with global DBA, platform, and application engineering teams across time zones
- Participate in code reviews, design discussions, and team knowledge-sharing forums
- Build technical depth across database platforms, development practices, and enterprise tooling
Skills
- Experience with one or more programming languages such as Python, Perl, or Java
- Basic understanding of relational database concepts including tables, indexes, transactions, and SQL
- Familiarity with software development fundamentals including version control, code reviews, and testing
- Strong problem-solving skills and willingness to learn enterprise database platforms and tooling
- Ability to work effectively in a team-based, large-scale technology environment
- Exposure to database platforms such as SQL Server, Snowflake, or similar enterprise databases
- Experience supporting or maintaining internal tools, scripts, or shared libraries
- Familiarity with APIs, automation frameworks, or CI/CD pipelines
- Interest in platform engineering, automation, and reducing operational toil through code
Benefits
- Annual discretionary bonus
- Healthcare
- Leave benefits
- Retirement benefits
- Strong retirement plan
- Tuition reimbursement
- Comprehensive healthcare
- Support for working parents
- Flexible Time Off (FTO)
Company Overview
BlackRock is an investment company that offers its services to institutions, intermediaries, foundations, and individual investors. It was founded in 1988, and is headquartered in New York, New York, USA, with a workforce of 10001+ employees. Its website is http://www.blackrock.com.Company H1B Sponsorship
BlackRock has a track record of offering H1B sponsorships, with 1 in 2026, 18 in 2025, 34 in 2024, 7 in 2023, 37 in 2022, 31 in 2021, 27 in 2020. Please note that this does not guarantee sponsorship for this specific role.