2 months ago
Remote, ChileSenior
Responsibilities
- Design, build, and maintain shared database platform components, libraries, migration tooling, safety checks, query standards, and developer abstractions.
- Establish reliable and scalable database connection, transaction, pooling, retry, timeout, migration, and access patterns across environments.
- Build automation and internal tooling for safer database operations, provisioning, schema management, testing, observability, and developer self-service.
- Architect and improve AWS RDS/Aurora MySQL and PostgreSQL infrastructure, including replicas, backups, failover, parameter groups, monitoring, and capacity planning.
- Define and enforce standards for database access, schema design, migrations, indexing, query performance, security, and operational readiness.
- Investigate production issues using application telemetry, database metrics, logs, query plans, traces, and cloud infrastructure data.
- Create dashboards, alerts, SLOs, SLIs, runbooks, and readiness checks, and improve backup validation, restore testing, disaster recovery, and failover readiness.
- Partner with security and compliance teams on access controls, auditability, encryption, secrets management, least privilege, and PCI/SOC 2-aligned controls.
- Mentor engineers and use automation and AI tooling to improve migration review, query analysis, incident investigation, documentation, and developer productivity.
Requirements
- 6+ years of professional experience in software engineering, infrastructure engineering, database engineering, SRE, or platform engineering.
- Strong production programming ability in at least one of Go, Python, or TypeScript.
- Experience building production-quality internal tools, libraries, frameworks, services, or platform components used by other engineers.
- Deep hands-on experience with MySQL and/or PostgreSQL in high-availability production environments.
- Strong knowledge of connection pooling, transactions, isolation levels, retries, timeouts, deadlocks, locking, migrations, and query execution.
- Experience with shared database access patterns, ORM wrappers, migration frameworks, or developer-facing database tooling.
- Hands-on AWS RDS/Aurora experience covering provisioning, upgrades, replicas, backups, failover, monitoring, parameter tuning, and troubleshooting.
- Experience with RDS Proxy, PgBouncer, ProxySQL, or application-level connection pooling.
- Ability to analyze performance using query plans, indexes, slow query logs, wait events, locks, metrics, and application traces.
- Experience designing safe production database migration processes and observability for database-backed applications.
- Experience with infrastructure-as-code and CI/CD tooling such as Terraform, GitLab CI/CD, Kubernetes, or Helm.
- Ability to influence engineering teams through design reviews, documentation, standards, and practical implementation.
- Experience working with Claude or equivalent large language model tools is required.
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science.
- Preferred experience includes Golang application development, platform capabilities for microservices, database libraries or SDKs, fintech or high-volume transactional systems, compliance-sensitive environments, governance and access controls, operational automation, distributed systems, and observability tooling.
Benefits
- The role is full-time and remote.
- Base compensation is $5,000–$9,500 per month gross in USD.
- The role offers work with a technology stack centered on Golang, TypeScript, Python, MySQL, PostgreSQL, Elasticsearch, AWS, Kubernetes, Git, and GitLab.
- The company emphasizes open-source usage, hands-on engineering, AI-assisted productivity, and a culture involving activities such as music, yoga, cycling, cooking, golf, dogs, and rock climbing.
Tech Stack
AWSDatadogElasticsearchGitGitLab CI/CDGoGrafanaHelmKubernetesMySQLPostgreSQLPrometheusPythonReactReact NativeTerraformTypeScript
About Sezzle
Sezzle builds a buy now, pay later platform that lets consumers split purchases into interest-free installments online and in stores, integrated with e-commerce and retail merchants. The company earns revenue from merchant fees and related consumer charges and provides underwriting and payment processing services. Founded in 2016 and headquartered in Minneapolis, Sezzle is a public company dual-listed on Nasdaq and the ASX.