about 3 hours ago
Base Salary
$144k - $180k/yr
Responsibilities
- Support all services owned by the Database Engineering team in a 24x7 on-call rotation.
- Contribute to the technical vision for database engineering and cloud migration.
- Design high availability and disaster recovery solutions for database architecture.
- Work on platform architecture, database partitioning, and sharding.
- Focus on automation to reduce manual work in database management.
- Collaborate with engineers across teams to execute technical visions.
- Conduct root cause analysis and document efforts to minimize incidents.
- Write clear design documents and articulate technical decisions.
- Contribute to monitoring and alerting practices using tools like Datadog.
- Mentor junior engineers and contribute to team standards.
Requirements
- 5+ years of experience as a backend engineer or 7+ years of relevant experience in lieu of a degree.
- Experience with cloud native databases, especially AWS, including RDBMS and NoSQL databases.
- Knowledge of high availability, disaster recovery, and distributed systems.
- Proficiency in IaC, automation, and orchestration tools like Terraform.
- Experience with CI/CD pipelines and deployment automation.
- Solid understanding of database administration and performance tuning.
- Proficient in Python and experienced with Linux commands and shell scripting.
- Familiarity with monitoring tools, preferably Datadog.
- Strong sense of ownership and accountability for work.
- Curious and committed to continuous learning.
Benefits
- Flexible working environment with options to work from home or office.
- Multiple health insurance options.
- Flexible time off policy.
- Retirement savings program with company contributions.
- Equity in a publicly-traded company and an Employee Stock Purchase Program.
- Family-forming benefits and up to 20 weeks of Parental Leave.
- Free therapy sessions and professional coaching.
- Monthly stipend to support remote work.
- Annual development dollars for personal growth.