9 days ago
Toronto, CanadaSenior
Responsibilities
- Lead the design, architecture, and lifecycle management of PostgreSQL environments for high availability, disaster recovery, and scalable performance.
- Automate database provisioning, major-version upgrades, monitoring, and credential rotation.
- Partner with Product and Data Engineering teams on database design, schema optimization, query performance, and safe migrations.
- Drive multi-region cloud database strategy while balancing performance, security, cost, and operational excellence.
- Serve as a senior escalation point during production incidents, perform root-cause analysis, and implement reliability improvements.
- Mentor engineers, document reusable operational patterns, and raise technical standards across teams.
Requirements
- At least 7 years of experience administering, engineering, and operating PostgreSQL or equivalent complex database systems in production.
- Deep knowledge of PostgreSQL architecture and internals, including query planning, locking, write-ahead logging, replication, vacuuming, and connection management.
- Experience designing, implementing, and operating high-availability, disaster-recovery, and failover solutions for critical database infrastructure.
- Proficiency in SQL and at least one programming or automation language such as Python, Go, or Bash.
- Hands-on experience building database automation with infrastructure-as-code or configuration management tools.
- Preferred experience with PostgreSQL on public cloud platforms, Kubernetes, or containerized environments.
- Preferred experience with Grafana, Prometheus, OpenTelemetry, Redis, MongoDB, OpenSearch, or distributed databases.
- Preferred experience improving developer productivity through self-service database provisioning and platform automation.
Benefits
- Hybrid Toronto work arrangement with an expectation of working in the office two days per week.
- Work from almost anywhere for up to 20 days per year.
- Company-paid therapy sessions through SpringHealth and a company-paid Headspace subscription.
- Annual company-wide week off, paid parental leave, paid vacation, birthday time off, paid volunteer time, and 20 days of paid time off.
- Development Dollars, leadership development, and access to thousands of on-demand e-learning courses.
- Travel discounts, employee resource groups, private health and dental insurance, life and disability insurance, and retirement benefits.
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