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 real estate technology company with a powerful end-to-end platform that supports the entire buying and selling workflow. We deliver an incomparable experience to both agents and their clients all in service of the Compass mission: to help everyone find their place in the world. Founded in 2012 by Ori Allon and Robert Reffkin, Compass operates in 22+ regions across the United States including New York, Los Angeles and Orange County, Chicago, San Francisco, Boston, Washington D.C., South Florida, The Hamptons, Santa Barbara & Montecito, San Diego, Seattle & Eastside, Philadelphia, Connecticut, Westchester, Aspen, Boulder, Denver, Atlanta, Austin & Central Texas, Dallas-Fort Worth, Houston, Nashville, and Lake Tahoe. Learn more and find your place at www.compass.com and www.compass.com/careers. Compass only reaches out to applicants from a @compass.com domain and does not prompt applicants to download software or files as part of its application process.