Database Reliability Engineer

2 weeks ago


Denver, Colorado, United States Quizlet Full time
About Quizlet

At Quizlet, we're passionate about empowering learners to achieve their goals. Our mission is to make learning fun, engaging, and accessible to everyone. We're a team of innovators, thinkers, and doers who are dedicated to creating a world where anyone can learn anything.

About the Role

We're seeking a highly skilled Database Reliability Engineer to join our Data Engineering team. As a key member of our team, you'll play a critical role in designing, building, and maintaining our data layer to ensure it's resilient, performant, and scalable. You'll work closely with our product and technical infrastructure teams to implement data technologies that meet our business needs.

Responsibilities
  • Plan, manage, and scale our data layer to ensure it's reliable and performant
  • Collaborate with engineering teams to make architectural decisions and advise on data modeling
  • Apply best practices to raise database reliability awareness and provide database expertise to analyze queries for optimization and database tuning
  • Improve our load testing and capacity planning frameworks and 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, and 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, and work on database infrastructure automation and self-service tools
Requirements
  • 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 environments
  • 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
What We Offer
  • Total compensation for this role is market competitive, including a starting base salary of $130,000 - $185,000, depending on location and experience, as well as company stock options
  • 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


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