Sr. Database Reliability Engineer

Job Description

• Plan, manage and scale our data layer to be resilient and performant • Collaborate with engineering teams to make architectural decisions and advise on data modeling • Apply best practices to raise database reliability awareness • Provide database expertise to analyze query for optimization and database tuning • Improve our load testing and capacity planning frameworks • Take charge of our object relational mapping (ORM) code in applications • Monitor and support the use of our data layer which consists of both RDBMS and streaming technologies • Handle operational challenges through on-call rotation and provide production incident assistance • Enhance our visibility into data layer workflows and workloads, help us maintain database SLOs • Work on database infrastructure automation and self-service tools

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in systems and infrastructure engineering or software development • 5+ years of experience building and maintaining data services on RDBMS and distributed databases with 3+ years of work on data modeling • Familiarity with design and maintaining high availability cloud-based database systems in GCP or another cloud platform • Solid knowledge of SQL and experience working in distributed production environment • A great understanding of how complex systems work and not afraid to dive deep into each component • Comfortable with coding in Python, PHP, Hacklang, Go, or similar languages to automate repetitive tasks and the ability to rewrite application code to enhance our data management strategy • Experience working with Kubernetes and IAC tools like Terraform and Helm • Passion for learning and technology, keen on sharing not just the wins but lessons learned

Benefits

• Collaborate with your manager and team to create a healthy work-life balance • 20 vacation days (and we expect you to take them!) • Competitive health, dental, and vision insurance (100% employee and 75% dependent PPO, HMO, VSP Choice) • Employer-sponsored 401k plan with company match • Access to LinkedIn Learning and other resources to support professional growth • Paid Family Leave, FSA, HSA, Commuter benefits, Wellness benefits • 40 hours of annual paid time off to participate in volunteer programs of choice