Staff Database Engineer

3 weeks ago


Philadelphia, United States CareerBuilder Full time

We are looking for a Staff Database Engineer to join our thriving Engineering team, to work cross-functionally across engineering, focusing on the architecture for optimal platform performance and be at the front lines, designing/administering databases, tackling database production issues and utilizing the latest and greatest cloud technologies. Were looking for excited individuals who want to be immersed in our Cloud Native (K8) platforms in AWS and GCP. Using DevOps principles and orchestration with a focus on availability, reliability and durability.

About the Work

As a key member of our Site Reliability Engineering team, you will:

Evaluate current database architectures and suggest improvements to maintain performance and availability

Work within agile scrum & kanban to foster Engineering and support efforts

Support the engineering organization by responding to database outages, helping triage, and remediating any database-related issues

Support the engineering organization by evaluating database schemas, partitions, views and queries, implementing changes to increase database performance

Manage and maintain replication between databases, ensuring resilience and the ability to recover from faults (observability platform in place already)

Product choice decisions, design methods, and modelling for AWS and GCP database direction

DB architecture to support our business continuity plan, backups, compute, network and storage development, using Terraform to automate deployment/creation leveraging GitOps

Build and develop a common database design architecture that can be easily replicated for new database installations

Experience with Postgres, Kafka (other distributed event streaming systems), ETLs and CDC

Other duties as required

About You

5+ years of hands on Database Engineering (Postgres preferred)

5+ years working within an AWS or GCP cloud environment

2+ years of high-level programming experience in Python or Go

Strong database monitoring experience

Strong database architecture experience

Strong Kubernetes production experience

Experience working with applications requiring compliance audits

Experience with production support issues, and how to remediate in a timely manner

Experience building infrastructure as code via IaC (preferably terraform)

What We Offer

A brilliant team who can extend your knowledge and skills

Competitive compensation package.

Fun, relaxed work environment.

Education and conference reimbursements.

Parental leave top up.

Opportunities for career progression and mentoring others.

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