3 months ago
Remote, United States +2 moreSenior
Base Salary
$145k - $230k/yr
Responsibilities
- Own database reliability across Aurora, OpenSearch, Redis, and the CDC pipeline, including schema reviews, migration safety, and data-tier incident response
- Improve Django ORM performance and establish QuerySet, schema, CI, and AGENTS.md standards that scale across the engineering organization
- Operate and evolve the Aurora-to-DMS-to-S3 Parquet-to-Snowflake CDC pipeline, including replication slot hygiene and schema evolution safeguards
- Build observability with pganalyze, CloudWatch, Honeycomb, and Django instrumentation connecting slow queries to users, flags, and deployments
- Drive multi-AZ resilience for Aurora, ElastiCache, OpenSearch, and RabbitMQ, including failover behavior and RTO/RPO
- Build self-service tooling and dashboards for teams to understand their query footprint
- Write documentation, run internal education sessions, and contribute database knowledge to AI review tooling
Requirements
- Deep practical PostgreSQL expertise, including EXPLAIN, MVCC, bloat, lock contention, vacuum behavior, and Aurora Serverless V2 tuning
- Production-scale experience with Django, SQLAlchemy, ActiveRecord, or a similar ORM, including query generation and N+1 detection
- Production CDC pipeline experience, ideally with AWS DMS, logical replication, schema evolution, and Parquet-based data lakes
- Hands-on experience with pganalyze or Datadog DBM/pg_stat_statements pipelines, CloudWatch, Honeycomb or another high-cardinality tracing tool, and OpenTelemetry
- Production-scale experience with OpenSearch, Redis, and at least one message broker such as SQS, RabbitMQ, or Kafka
- Ability to write automation in Python, Go, or a similar language and experience using Terraform or comparable infrastructure-as-code
- Experience using AI coding and review tools, maintaining AGENTS.md files, configuring review agents, and iterating on prompts
- Nice-to-have experience includes Postgres event sourcing, Debezium, Fivetran, Airbyte, PgBouncer, RDS Proxy, advanced Honeycomb usage, Snowflake producer-side workflows, rapid data infrastructure scaling, and compliance work such as SOC 2 Type II or GDPR
Benefits
- Health, dental, and vision insurance for employees and dependents
- Flexible paid time off and company holidays
- 401(k)
- Paid parental leave
- Daily catered lunch for the San Francisco office
- Commuter benefits
- Home office stipend
- San Francisco hybrid work with three days per week in-office, or permanent remote work within Pacific Standard Time
Tech Stack
AirbyteAmazon RedshiftApache KafkaDjangoGoGoogle BigQueryPostgreSQLPythonRabbitMQRedisSnowflakeTerraform
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About Scribe
Every organization has its own way of doing things: how your best people really work, the judgment calls, the exceptions, the workarounds. It's your company’s most valuable dataset, and almost none of it is written down. It lives in peoples’ heads. You can’t use it, and you certainly don’t own it. And when they leave, it leaves. Scribe is trusted by 94% of the Fortune 500 to turn what your teams actually do — which we call specialized intelligence — into a living asset you own. Scribe structures your company’s IP and puts it back to work for your teams and AI agents.