Senior Site Reliability Engineer - Databases

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💰 $45M Series C on 2019-06

Description

• Evangelizing standard methodologies for building and operating highly reliable data storage systems • Serving as the subject matter expert in datastore design and performance • Building and supporting Valimail’s mission-critical datastores • Conducting timely post mortems of production datastore incidents • Collaboratively designing systems with other engineers to meet reliability, scalability, and performance requirements • Providing assistance to teams working with datastores • Automating routine database tasks • Participating in on-call rotation and incident response. • Upgrade data storage systems as necessary

Requirements

• 5+ years experience building and maintaining highly available relational databases. • Work collaboratively with cross functional teams • Value team success over individual success • Put industry and engineering best practices into practice and promotes them to others • Passion for reliable, scalable, and performant datastores with strong sense of ownership • Experience building and supporting highly performant and highly reliable datastores • Deep experience working with Postgres • Expert in database fundamentals, SQL, PL/pgSQL, (or other) • Experience with NOSQL datastores and caching solutions • Working knowledge of AWS or Azure cloud providers • Experience with Infrastructure-as-Code tools, such as Terraform

Benefits

• Competitive pay + participation in employee stock option plan. • Comprehensive health, dental, + vision coverage • Six weeks of paid parental leave for all parents, and an additional 6 weeks for parents giving birth • Remote First Company, you can work anywhere within the US • Unlimited and flexible PTO. We believe balanced, happy, relaxed people do better work