Summary

Our engineering team is growing! We’re looking for a talented Database Administrator to join our global team and build scalable systems that will shape the future of our cloud infrastructure for our customer-facing and internal systems.

What you'll be doing

• Continuously monitor all the databases and drive performance tuning. Maintain and improve our existing databases with upgrades and installations.
• Integrate secure solutions and compliance management including identity and access management role-based access control systems.
• Being on-call to handle any P0 incidents, troubleshooting database errors, and follow disaster recovery protocol.
• Champion for a flawless Service Level Agreement (SLA). Shooting for the 5 9s target and helping contribute to this from the database perspective.
• Provide multi-tier levels of support to engineering and non-engineering stakeholders.
• Debug, troubleshoot, and resolve system level scale, performance, and automation problems.
• Design, build, test, deploy, and automate stable/scalable databases and related services for the internal engineering team and end users.
• Creating deployments, services, and other database resources on Kubernetes clusters.
• Work across multiple functional teams to assess, design, build and maintain a highly fault-tolerant database infrastructure.
• Checking in code to Github repositories and performing code reviews for your fellow team members.

What you should have

• Bachelor’s degree in computer programming, computer science, or a related field.
• 5+ years experience in a Database Administrator role.
• Working with and maintaining managed cloud Postgres databases in a production environment.
• Well-versed in writing SQL queries for all areas of scale.
• Experience in managing secure database access.
• Experience with high availability database design and implementation.
• Experience with continuous monitoring of the databases and maintaining healthy uptime.
• Ability to own and be responsible for the projects you will be working on.

We'll be excited if you have

• Working with and maintaining Cassandra databases in a production environment.
• Closely working with SQL and NoSQL databases and experience executing zero-downtime database upgrades.
• Good understanding of database schema and data modeling.
• Fluent in Terraform/Terragrunt and writing Infrastructure as Code (IaC).
• Experience creating automation scripts for database maintenance.
• Excellent eye for security and creating bulletproof secure systems.
• Excellent and effective verbal, written, interpersonal communication skills.
• Comfortable with fast-paced change: ability to demonstrate comfort with ambiguity, adapt quickly and be effective in new situations in a highly dynamic setting.
• Data-driven but also imaginative and intuitive in coming up with ideas and solutions.
• Proven ability to balance multiple priorities in a collaborative team environment.
• Impeccable attention to detail.

The role may be hybrid in one of our offices or remote. For remote, we are looking for candidates based in the United States or Canada. 
Don’t hold back

We understand some candidates may see the above and not apply because they don’t meet all the qualifications. We encourage you to apply anyway; we often find talented candidates that fit many other opportunities we have and look for potential too, not just what you did in the past.  As an equal employment opportunity employer, we are a diverse team that strives for an inclusive environment for all. We prohibit discrimination and harassment of any kind based on race, color, sex, religion, sexual orientation, national origin, age, disability, genetic information, pregnancy, or any other protected characteristic as outlined by federal, state, or local laws.