Senior or Staff Software Engineer, Database Engineer

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Requirements:

• 5-8 years of hands-on experience in database design, development, and enterprise-class operations with one or more of the following technologies: PostgreSQL, MySQL, Aurora PostgreSQL, Aurora MySQL.
• Experience managing a highly reliable database platform with a focus on security, performance, and scale to meet the requirements of enterprise customers.
• Experience migrating mission-critical database applications from on-premise to the cloud or managing a hybrid cloud environment for large enterprise applications.
• Proficient in data modeling for OLTP and OLAP workloads.
• Extensive experience in performance monitoring, troubleshooting, and performance tuning.
• Experience influencing product roadmap and strategy, and prioritizing existing database initiatives to drive business outcomes.
• Experience writing high-performance Postgres modules and extensions to optimize database performance.

Responsibilities:

• Design, implement, and maintain Petabyte scale relational database systems with a focus on availability, security, performance, and scalability.
• Work closely with cross-functional teams to plan and execute database infrastructure build-outs, upgrades, and migrations.
• Serve as an expert in database performance, scalability, query tuning, monitoring, and incident response.
• Manage data replication in environments serving both batch and real-time use cases.
• Independently troubleshoot and resolve production and pre-production issues in a timely manner.
• Contribute to major system upgrades, deployment automation, monitoring enhancements, and production changes.
• Create operational playbooks, contribute to documentation, and gain domain expertise to drive changes within the team.
• Tune and configure databases, as well as build tools and scripts to monitor, troubleshoot, and automate our systems.