2 months ago
Base Salary
$158k - $233k/yr
Responsibilities
- Design, operate, and continuously improve highly available PostgreSQL environments across cloud and production platforms.
- Define database reliability standards, reference architectures, operational runbooks, service-level objectives, and recovery strategies.
- Lead capacity planning, performance tuning, query optimization, indexing, connection management, and storage growth planning.
- Establish and validate backup, restore, point-in-time recovery, disaster recovery, business continuity, replication, failover, partitioning, connection pooling, and high-availability solutions.
- Monitor database health, latency, throughput, resource utilization, replication lag, errors, and reliability trends, turning findings into improvements.
- Develop automation for provisioning, configuration, upgrades, patching, schema changes, maintenance, and decommissioning.
- Build guardrails, APIs, and self-service tooling that enable application teams to operate PostgreSQL consistently and safely.
- Evaluate PostgreSQL capabilities, managed database services, extensions, operators, and operational tooling for production use.
- Participate in incident response and on-call rotations, improving detection, diagnosis, mitigation, and prevention of database incidents.
- Document technical decisions, operating procedures, failure modes, recovery strategies, and operational readiness criteria.
- Mentor engineers and collaborate with engineering, technical leadership, security, and cross-functional stakeholders on platform solutions.
Requirements
- At least 8 years of hands-on software development experience in an object-oriented programming language such as C#, C++, or Java.
- At least 5 years of experience operating PostgreSQL in large-scale, highly available production environments.
- Experience with PostgreSQL internals, transactions, locking, write-ahead logging, vacuuming, autovacuum, replication, and recovery.
- Experience with database performance analysis, query plans, indexing, connection management, and workload optimization.
- Experience designing and validating backup, restore, disaster recovery, and business continuity solutions.
- Experience with infrastructure as code and automation using Terraform, Ansible, or equivalent tools.
- Experience with Python, Go, Shell, or another scripting or programming language.
- Experience troubleshooting complex production issues and communicating with engineering teams, technical leaders, and cross-functional partners.
- Preferred experience in database reliability, platform, or production engineering; PostgreSQL operators, managed PostgreSQL services, Patroni, PgBouncer; multi-region databases; Kubernetes deployments; internal platforms and APIs; database security and compliance; SLOs and reliability scorecards; cloud observability and cost management; or relevant technical certifications.
Benefits
- Hybrid work arrangement requiring at least two days per week in the office, with weekly in-office expectations that may vary by team.
- Washington base salary range of $158,300.00-$232,575.00, plus eligibility for a company bonus plan and Restricted Stock Units.
- Paid time off and regional company holidays.
- Up to six months of paid parental leave.
- Full health benefits with options including employer-paid plans from the first day of employment.
- Retirement and pension plans with potential employer contributions.
- Learning and development programs, coaching, online courses, and education reimbursements.
- Compassionate care leave and reasonable workplace accommodations.
Tech Stack
Categories
DevOpsSite Reliability
About DocuSign
DocuSign builds e-signature, contract lifecycle management, and agreement workflow software used by businesses to prepare, sign, and manage contracts. It sells cloud-based subscriptions and APIs that integrate with systems like Salesforce, Microsoft, and Google to automate document workflows and compliance. Founded in 2003 and headquartered in San Francisco, DocuSign is a public company on NASDAQ with over 1.5 million customers in more than 180 countries.