Staff Cloud Database Engineer

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Varo Bank

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Mobile Banking • User Interface • Financial Services • Risk Management • Design Research

501 - 1000 employees

Founded 2015

🏦 Banking

💸 Finance

💳 Fintech

Description

• Varo is an entirely new kind of bank. • All digital, mission-driven, FDIC insured and designed for the way our customers live their lives. • A bank for all of us. • ABOUT THE DATABASE ENGINEERING TEAM • The Database Engineering Team is a key component of our mission on building a new kind of bank. • Our goal is to build products that help improve the financial well-being of our customers. • You will get to work with new technology stacks, be part of a growing and diverse workplace, and improve the financial lives of others. • In our Engineering team, we value personal growth, initiative and ownership, collaboration, and the importance of thinking like an engineer. • ABOUT THE CLOUD DATABASE ENGINEER ROLE • Varo is seeking a talented Staff Cloud Database Engineer to join our team. • You will be responsible for the cloud database services, where you'll drive the vision and ownership for all of the enterprise database systems. • As a staff level engineer, you will lead and mentor the team(s) while coordinating and communicating with stakeholders.

Requirements

• 8+ years of Postgres Database Administration experience on RDS • 8+ years of AWS Database Administration experience (Dynamo, RedShift, Etc) • 8+ years of experience with systems administration in a Linux environment • 5+ years of experience on AWS - particularly IAM, EC2, S3, RDS, DMS • Solid understanding of distributed computing environments, including distributed SQL systems • Expertise in database administration activities like installation, configuration, backup & recovery, query optimizations, creating roles, managing user permissions and resolving deadlocks • Expertise with query analyzers and query tuning • Experience in implementing different types of replication models like Snapshot, Merge and Transactional • Expertise in handling database maintenance with minimal to zero downtime.