3 months ago
Base Salary
$176k - $196k/yr
Responsibilities
- Design and operate the RDS/Aurora PostgreSQL, ElastiCache Redis/Valkey, and DynamoDB fleet, including replication, failover, capacity, and engine strategy.
- Build tenant-safe SDKs in Go, Java, and Python to enforce multi-tenant data isolation.
- Own production database upgrades and Terraform state changes across hundreds of clusters with zero customer-facing impact.
- Build and scale Kafka/MSK streaming infrastructure, including topic architecture, consumer patterns, and blue/green deployments.
- Develop database and cache observability with SLI dashboards, tenant-dimensioned telemetry, and real-time performance insights.
- Partner with product and platform teams on scaling readiness, infrastructure migrations, and difficult production incidents.
- Lead cross-team operational programs involving change management, migration coordination, and rollback planning.
Requirements
- 5+ years of experience building and operating distributed systems, including production-scale PostgreSQL or a similar managed database in AWS.
- Experience building shared tooling such as SDKs, client libraries, or platform APIs.
- Ability to write Go or ramp quickly, with comfort using Terraform, Kubernetes, and IAM-heavy AWS environments.
- Experience leading cross-team operational programs, including change management, migration coordination, and rollback planning.
- Preferred experience with multi-tenant isolation techniques such as key prefixing, row-level security, and RBAC/ACL models.
- Preferred experience operating Kafka/MSK at scale, including consumer lag, partition rebalancing, and cross-account IAM authentication.
- Preferred experience building or contributing to database and cache observability platforms.
Benefits
- Base pay range is $176,000-$196,100, with potential bonuses and restricted stock units.
- Paid vacation, holidays, sick time, parental leave, and recharge leave.
- Medical, tele-health, dental, and vision benefits.
- 401(k), flexible spending accounts, commuter program, life and disability insurance.
- Maven new-parent support, Carrot fertility benefits, UrbanSitter caregiver referrals, Employee Assistance Program, and pet insurance.
- Participation in incentive programs and access to professional growth opportunities.
Tech Stack
About Compass
Compass is a residential real estate brokerage and technology company that builds an end-to-end platform for agents and their clients. It earns primarily from brokerage commissions while providing CRM, marketing, listings, and transaction tools to help agents serve home buyers and sellers. Founded in 2012 and headquartered in New York City, Compass operates across major U.S. markets and is publicly traded on the NYSE.