1 day ago
Base Salary
$158k - $233k/yr
Responsibilities
- Design, operate, and improve highly available PostgreSQL environments across cloud and production platforms.
- Define database reliability standards, reference architectures, operational runbooks, and service-level objectives.
- Lead capacity planning, performance tuning, query optimization, indexing, and storage growth management.
- Establish backup, restore, point-in-time recovery, disaster recovery, and business continuity processes.
- Design and validate replication, failover, partitioning, connection pooling, and high-availability solutions.
- Monitor database health, latency, throughput, utilization, replication lag, errors, and reliability trends.
- Develop automation for provisioning, configuration, upgrades, patching, schema changes, maintenance, and decommissioning.
- Build guardrails, APIs, and self-service tooling for consistent and safe PostgreSQL operations.
- Evaluate PostgreSQL capabilities, managed database services, extensions, operators, and operational tooling.
- Participate in incident response and on-call rotations and improve detection, diagnosis, mitigation, and prevention.
- Document technical decisions, procedures, failure modes, recovery strategies, and operational readiness criteria.
- Mentor engineers and collaborate with engineering, technical leadership, security, and cross-functional stakeholders.
Requirements
- 8+ years of hands-on software development experience in an object-oriented programming language such as C#, C++, or Java.
- 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 and cross-functional teams.
- Preferred experience in database reliability, platform, or production engineering roles; PostgreSQL operators, managed PostgreSQL services, Patroni, PgBouncer, multi-region platforms, Kubernetes deployments, internal platforms, APIs, self-service workflows, database security, compliance, SLOs, error budgets, observability, and cloud operations.
- Relevant cloud, PostgreSQL, Kubernetes, or reliability engineering certifications are preferred.
Benefits
- Hybrid work designation with a minimum expectation of two days per week in the office; access to an office location is required.
- Company bonus plan for non-sales roles and eligibility for Restricted Stock Units.
- Paid time off and region-based company holidays.
- Up to six months of paid parental leave after birth, adoption, or foster care placement.
- Health benefit options from the first day of employment, including fully employer-paid and low-contribution plans.
- Retirement and pension programs with potential employer contributions.
- Coaching, online courses, and education reimbursement options.
- Paid compassionate care leave.
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.