Staff Software Engineer (Remote Available)

JOIN US AND "CREATE YOUR VISION" 

ABOUT US

S&S Activewear is a leading North American, tech enabled specialty distributor of imprintable apparel, including t shirts, fleece, athletic wear, headwear, workwear, scrubs and accessories. We pride ourselves on being the “critical link” that enables our 100+ brand partners such as Adidas, Columbia and Gildan to reach our hyper fragmented base of customers, comprised of apparel decorators, eRetailers and promotional products distributors that embellish apparel items for diverse end consumer use cases (e.g., everyday wear, concerts, fitness attire, life events, team sports, etc.). At S&S, we differentiate in the market through a customer service focus, strategic product portfolio, world class distribution infrastructure, a collaborative growth culture and a relentless focus on technology and innovation.

Our success has compounded since the Company’s humble beginnings in 1988 as a regional t shirt distributor to a leading, multibillion dollar value-added distribution platform that drives market penetration for our suppliers while enabling growth, operations and fulfillment for a diverse range of customers across channels and business sizes.

Today, we continue to strive to be the apparel distributor of choice by inspiring and fostering growth for customers, employees and suppliers, anchored in our commitment to Lead with Respect, Never Settle, Own the Outcome, Win Together, and the belief that Innovation Powers Our Hustle. These values guide how we serve, how we collaborate and how we continuously improve, ensuring we deliver on our promise of service, deep relationships, innovation, continuous improvement and accountability.

ABOUT THE ROLE 

In this role, you will lead the design and delivery of advanced technical solutions that strengthen S and S Activewear’s competitive edge. The systems you build and optimize are core to how the company operates and scales, directly influencing our continued year over year growth. As a senior engineering leader, your expertise will shape both current initiatives and long-term technical strategy.

We are looking for a Staff Software Engineer with deep mastery of SQL Server, database architecture, and performance optimization. You will guide our transformation toward a highly performant, reliable, and scalable data platform. This includes partnering closely with Software Engineering, DevOps, Infrastructure, and Product teams to architect, tune, and monitor the mission critical database systems that power our applications.

This role is ideal for an engineer who thrives on query tuning, indexing strategies, storage engine internals, and end to end performance visibility and who can operate as a technical authority and collaborator across teams.

SCHEDULE & LOCATION 

Monday-Friday, Full-Time, Exempt 

Remote Available 

BENEFITS

We offer a comprehensive benefits package designed to support your life, health, and future. Benefits begin 0–90 days after hire and include Vacation, Personal, and Sick time; Medical, Dental, Vision, Life Insurance, and Disability coverage; Flexible Spending Accounts; and a 401(k) plan. You’ll also enjoy discounts on brand‑name apparel, fun employee events, and meaningful opportunities for growth and advancement. Join a company that invests in you from day one.

WHAT YOU WILL DO 

• Architect, design, and evolve SQL Server database schemas, indexing strategies, and storage structures for scale and resilience.  Collaborate with software engineering teams to design efficient schema and data access patterns.
• Lead complex performance investigations involving query execution plans, locking/latching behavior, and I/O bottlenecks.
• Establish best practices for T SQL development, code reviews, and database development standards while serving as the organization’s database subject matter expert and technical mentor.
• Build and refine monitoring and alerting for database health, performance anomalies, and long running queries using tools such as Datadog and SQL Sentry in order to quickly identify and triage issues with the application tier.
• Lead efforts in capacity planning, high availability design, failover strategies, backup/restore validation, and disaster recovery readiness.
• Partner with DevOps to improve CI/CD processes for database deployments, integration testing, and migration automation.
• Provide oversight and support for data migration pipelines to data warehouse.
• Evaluate and optimize database configurations including memory, CPU, parallelism, and s