3 months ago
Base Salary
$176k - $196k/yr
Responsibilities
- Design and operate RDS/Aurora PostgreSQL, ElastiCache Redis/Valkey, and DynamoDB fleets, including replication, failover, capacity, and engine strategy.
- Build multi-tenant data-isolation SDKs in Go, Java, and Python to enforce safe access patterns.
- Own database engine upgrades and Terraform state changes across hundreds of production clusters with zero customer-facing impact.
- Build and scale Kafka/MSK streaming infrastructure, including topic architecture, consumer patterns, and blue/green deployments.
- Develop SLI dashboards, tenant-dimensioned telemetry, and real-time observability for database and cache systems.
- Partner with product and platform teams on scaling readiness, golden-path infrastructure migrations, and difficult production incidents.
- Lead cross-team operational programs involving change management, migration coordination, and rollback planning.
Requirements
- 5+ years of experience building and operating distributed systems, including production-scale experience with PostgreSQL or a similar managed database in AWS.
- Experience building shared tooling such as SDKs, client libraries, or platform APIs.
- Ability to write Go or ramp up quickly, with comfort using Terraform, Kubernetes, and IAM-heavy AWS environments.
- Experience leading cross-team operational programs involving change management, migration coordination, and rollback planning.
- Preferred experience with multi-tenant isolation, key prefixing, row-level security, and RBAC/ACL models.
- Preferred experience operating Kafka/MSK at scale, including consumer lag, partition rebalancing, and cross-account IAM authentication.
- Preferred experience contributing to observability platforms for database and cache monitoring.
Benefits
- Base pay range is $176,000-$196,100, with potential bonuses and restricted stock units excluded from the stated base range.
- Paid vacation, holidays, sick time, parental leave, and recharge leave.
- Medical, tele-health, dental, and vision benefits.
- 401(k), flexible spending accounts, commuter program, life and disability insurance, pet insurance, and an Employee Assistance Program.
- Maven support for new parents, Carrot fertility benefits, and UrbanSitter caregiver referral services.
- Equal opportunity employer with professional growth, mobility, and diversity and inclusion programs.
Tech Stack
Categories
BackendData Engineering
About Compass
Compass is a residential real estate brokerage and technology company that builds an end-to-end platform for agents and their clients. It earns primarily from brokerage commissions while providing CRM, marketing, listings, and transaction tools to help agents serve home buyers and sellers. Founded in 2012 and headquartered in New York City, Compass operates across major U.S. markets and is publicly traded on the NYSE.