Senior Site Reliability Engineer - Database Specialty

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Technology • Payment Systems • Alternative Payments • Risk Management • Currency Exchange

5001 - 10000

Description

• The SRE team is dedicated to achieving operational excellence ensuring that we deliver an exceptional customer experience. • In this role, you will bring database expertise to the SRE and Infrastructure teams as well as our engineering teams. • You will work on helping build secure, scalable and highly available platform, collaborating with our product engineering teams to ensure alignment in reducing database related incidents, enhancing platform resilience, scalability, and advancing our incident response practices. • Work on database reliability and performance aspects from within the SRE team. • Analyze solutions and implement best practices for our database clusters (PostgreSQL). • Provide database expertise to engineering teams (for example through reviews of database migrations, queries and performance optimizations). • Work with peer SREs to roll out changes to our production environment and help mitigate database-related production incidents. • Work on observability of relevant database metrics and help achieve our database objectives. • Work on automation of database infrastructure and help build self-service tools. • Guiding product engineering teams on how to achieve operational excellence for new product and feature launches. • Collaborate with our platform and operations teams to build, maintain, performance tune and optimize our cloud infrastructure. • Debugging difficult technical challenges and making systems and products both work better. • Educate, mentor and hold the engineering teams accountable to improve the reliability of our systems and make reliability a core value of the engineering culture. • Participate in an on-call rotation to provide timely troubleshooting and resolution of urgent issues.

Requirements

• An operational mindset and a drive to achieve operational excellence with at least 7+ years of experience in database administration (SQL and NoSQL). • Strong experience building and maintaining data services on RDBMS and distributed databases. • Familiarity with design and maintaining highly available cloud-based database systems in AWS or another cloud platform. • Strong understanding of database internals, query optimization, and indexing strategies. • Experience with high availability solutions like logical replication, and clustering. • Ability to perform capacity planning and ensure an architecture is scalable to support fluctuating volumes. • Solid knowledge of SQL, PL/pgSQL and internals of PostgreSQL. • Experience working in a distributed production environment. • Experience with infrastructure automation and configuration management (at least one of Ansible, Terraform, Pulumi, etc). • Understanding of implementing solutions to reduce service disruptions and improve MTTD/MTTR. • Excellent written and verbal communication skills, and a bias toward open, transparent cultural practices. • Ability to work collaboratively across many teams influencing decisions and setting standards. • Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science or equivalent experience. • This role requires on-call availability to ensure swift resolution of issues outside regular business hours.

Benefits

• A competitive salary and benefits. • Time to support charities and give back to your community. • Parental leave policy. • Global recognition platform. • Virgin Pulse access. • Global employee assistance program.