Staff Software Engineer - Database

2 days ago

🌵 Arizona – Remote

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🏄 California – Remote

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+25 more states

🌵 Arizona – Remote 🏄 California – Remote ⛰️ Colorado – Remote 🦌 Connecticut – Remote 🐊 Florida – Remote 🌺 Hawaii – Remote 🌽 Illinois – Remote 🗻 New Hampshire – Remote 🗽 New York – Remote 🌲 North Carolina – Remote 🌾 North Dakota – Remote 🏈 Ohio – Remote 🌲 Oregon – Remote 🦀 Maryland – Remote 🍂 Massachusetts – Remote 🚗 Michigan – Remote ❄️ Minnesota – Remote 🏰 Missouri – Remote 🔔 Pennsylvania – Remote ⚓ Rhode Island – Remote 🌴 South Carolina – Remote 🤠 Texas – Remote ⛷️ Utah – Remote 🍁 Vermont – Remote ⚔️ Virginia – Remote ☕ Washington – Remote 🧀 Wisconsin – Remote

💵 $191.7k - $241.5k / year

⏰ Full Time

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ActBlue

WebsiteLinkedInAll Job Openings

Online Fundraising • Technology • Organizing

201 - 500 employees

Founded 2004

🤲 Charity

🤝 Non-profit

🌍 Social Impact

💰 $22M Series A on 2010-08

Description

• WHO WE ARE: • ActBlue is a nonprofit that builds tech and infrastructure for Democratic campaigns, progressive-aligned causes, and people trying to make an impact to fuel long-term, people-powered change. • We put power in the hands of small-dollar donors and help thousands of groups — from presidential candidates to environmental organizations — build grassroots movements. • We envision a democracy where everyone looking to make progressive, people-powered change can easily and effectively deploy their resources, energy, and creativity to shape our country and futures. • Each and every one of us, from the political activists to the tech innovators to the customer service pros, is fully committed to our mission. • THE OPPORTUNITY: • We are seeking a Staff Engineer/Architect who is passionate about designing and implementing modern data architectures. • As a member of the Database Platform team, you will be directly responsible for the foundation of our data infrastructure. • Help us make it more efficient, reliable, and future-proof! Our team’s mission is to innovate and optimize our data systems to support the organization's evolving needs.

Requirements

• 10+ years of experience in software engineering and architecture. • Strong knowledge of AWS and cloud database services (specifically multi-region), with the ability to evaluate both technical and cost implications of various database solutions. • Proven experience in scaling PostgreSQL databases effectively in high-volume, mission-critical environments. • Expertise in evaluating and implementing architectural changes, including potential solutions such as sharding or other scaling techniques. • Strong understanding of optimizing database performance, including: • Offloading materialized views to external systems. • Refactoring and moving business logic out of the database. • Driving the adoption of PostgreSQL as a simple key-value store where appropriate. • A strategic eye for improving database architecture to support scalability and performance. • Collaborative skills to work cross-functionally and drive organizational alignment on database strategy. • Expertise in relational databases, document stores, in-memory databases, and big data solutions. • Proficiency in database replication, monitoring, and troubleshooting. • Passion for automation and repeatable configuration management. • Experience with Linux system administration. • Excellent problem-solving skills and attention to detail. • Ability to lead and inspire a team, fostering collaboration and innovation. • Strong communication skills, both written and verbal. • The ability to leverage your technical expertise not just to tackle the most challenging problem in sight but to empower, teach, and build systems of support that allow others to succeed. • Experience making recommendations for system-level improvements related to infrastructure. Comfort acting as a go-to consultant for other team engineers. • Fluency moving between design and implementation.

Benefits

• Flexible work schedules and an unlimited time-off policy • Fully paid and trans-inclusive health, dental, and vision insurance for employees and their families; plus fully-paid health reimbursement arrangement to use for out of pocket expenses and fully-paid short- and long-term disability • Fully paid basic and AD&D life insurance and a voluntary supplemental life insurance option • Dependent and health care flexible spending account options • Employee Assistance Program (EAP) benefits for employees • Automatic 2% Employer-paid 401K contribution, plus up to an additional 6% match on employee contributions • A minimum of three months paid medical, family and parental leave (for all new parents, adoptions included) • Commuter or home-office benefits, including a $1,000 home-office setup allowance for all new full-time remote employees • Additional perks including quarterly snack deliveries and digital subscriptions to the Boston Globe & New York Times