2 days ago
Remote, AmericasSenior / Staff+
H1B sponsor
Responsibilities
- Build and extend the database management control plane for Shopify’s global YugabyteDB platform.
- Develop systems for database provisioning, safe operational workflows, backups, backup verification, configuration management, migrations, and schema changes.
- Build database safety and performance guardrails for application teams.
- Operate production database infrastructure, debug distributed-systems failures, and improve reliability at scale.
- Participate in the required on-call rotation and support site/database reliability engineering practices.
- Provide technical mentorship and, at the Staff level, lead difficult technical problems and influence across teams.
Requirements
- Write high-quality code in a high-level programming language such as Go or Ruby.
- Have experience or interest in configuration management and comfort working in a Linux shell.
- Have experience with relational databases, PostgreSQL internals, distributed databases, or database reliability engineering.
- Have experience with a cloud platform such as AWS, GCP, or Azure.
- Have experience with Site Reliability Engineering or DevOps practices, or be a software engineer interested in infrastructure work.
- Demonstrate technical mentorship, teamwork, quality, technical excellence, and a commitment to psychological safety.
- Have experience working on a remote or distributed engineering team.
- Be willing to participate in on-call work and learn the team’s technology stack; exact component experience is not required.
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About Shopify
Shopify is a leading global commerce company, providing trusted tools to start, grow, market, and manage a retail business of any size. Shopify makes commerce better for everyone with a platform and services that are engineered for reliability, while delivering a better shopping experience for consumers everywhere. Shopify powers millions of businesses in more than 175 countries and is trusted by brands such as Allbirds, Gymshark, PepsiCo, Staples, and many more. Find all our jobs here: www.shopify.com/careers