5 days ago
Base Salary
$168k - $245k/yr
Responsibilities
- Plan, administer, maintain, and secure PostgreSQL infrastructure in collaboration with SRE teams.
- Design and maintain ETL pipelines for PostgreSQL and develop data migration procedures and scripts.
- Perform database administration, including installation, upgrades, patching, backup and recovery, monitoring, capacity planning, and architectural changes in cloud environments.
- Participate in on-call rotations, incident response, monitoring, alerting, and post-incident reviews.
- Build database platform tooling, self-service workflows, and safe paved paths for application teams.
- Operate and improve production data systems through reliability practices such as SLOs, disaster recovery, backup validation, and failover testing.
- Produce design documents, lead operational reviews, explain technical tradeoffs, and mentor engineers.
Requirements
- At least 5 years of experience designing, operating, and troubleshooting PostgreSQL in production environments.
- At least 5 years of experience managing production databases or distributed data systems across application, database, operating system, storage, and network layers.
- At least 3 years of Linux systems engineering experience, including performance tuning, memory management, I/O tuning, configuration, security, networking, and infrastructure or database automation.
- At least 2 years of experience using a scripting or programming language such as Python, Bash, Go, Ruby, or Perl for automation and operational tooling.
- Experience with a polyglot production data environment, including a non-PostgreSQL system such as Kafka/MSK, ClickHouse, Redis, MySQL, Cassandra, Elasticsearch, or a similar distributed data system.
- Preferred experience with PostgreSQL on Kubernetes, Amazon RDS, AWS, Terraform, service discovery, and secrets management.
- Preferred ability to operate MSK/Kafka, ClickHouse, or Redis at scale, including cluster operations, replication, partitioning or sharding, retention, capacity planning, and workload tuning.
- Deep knowledge of PostgreSQL internals and operational behavior, including concurrency, transaction consistency, replication, maintenance, backup and recovery, indexing, and query performance.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills, including design documentation, operational reviews, tradeoff analysis, and mentoring.
Benefits
- U.S. benefits include medical, dental, and vision insurance, a 401(k) plan with Cisco matching contributions, paid parental leave, disability coverage, and basic life insurance.
- Employees may be eligible for Cisco restricted stock unit grants and annual bonuses for non-sales roles.
- Paid time off includes holidays, floating and personal wellness days, birthday leave, year-end shutdown, vacation or flexible vacation time, sick time, and family emergency leave.
- Employees may receive up to 10 paid volunteer days per year.
Tech Stack
AnsibleApache CassandraApache KafkaAWSBashChefClickHouseElasticsearchGoKubernetesLinuxMySQLPerlPostgreSQLPuppetPythonRedisRubyTerraform
Categories
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About Cisco
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