Sr. Engineer, Database Reliability

The role

You will set direction for data infrastructure and solve operational problems for the State team. You will manage relational database fleets, caching layers, and the tooling used by product teams.

What you will do

• Own the reliability of the caching layer including capacity planning and failover behavior.
• Participate in the on-call rotation and serve as an escalation point for data-layer issues.
• Support internal customers with troubleshooting and documentation.
• Manage database and cache infrastructure as code using Terraform.
• Build database and cache templated standards within the internal platform.
• Build and maintain observability including dashboards, alerts, and SLOs.
• Implement strategies to improve performance and resilience across MySQL, PostgreSQL, and Redis fleets.
• Work with development teams on architectural decisions for new services.
• Consult with product teams on schema design, query patterns, and capacity planning.
• Lead design reviews and mentor engineers on database and cache practice.

Required qualifications

• At least 7 years in systems administration, systems engineering, or software development.
• At least 4 years running production relational databases.
• Deep expertise in MySQL or PostgreSQL.
• Working knowledge of the other engine in MySQL or PostgreSQL.
• Knowledge of the engine's ecosystem of extensions and tools.
• Understanding of caching such as Redis.
• Experience designing and operating caching at scale.
• Experience with cloud platforms like AWS.
• Experience managing infrastructure as code with Terraform or similar tooling.
• Experience operating stateful services alongside Kubernetes or other distributed systems.
• Experience implementing metrics, logging, and alerting using tools like Datadog, Prometheus, or CloudWatch.
• Ability to participate in an on-call rotation.

Before you apply

• You must answer in-depth questions in the application.
• If you receive an offer, you must include your most recent educational experience for a background check.
• Check the provided list of countries to ensure you can work permanently in your location.

About the company

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