Senior Database Engineer

We are looking for a Senior 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. We’re looking for excited individuals who want to be immersed in our Cloud Native (K8) platforms. Using DevOps principles and orchestration with a focus on availability, reliability and durability.

As a key As a key member of our Database Engineering team dealing with Site Reliability 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)