Database Engineer

Responsibilities

• Provide architectural and hands on assistance with scaling and improving our Database Engines.
• Write and review Infrastructure as a code, create and maintain database documentation.
• Provide insight and analysis into the behavior of databases and caching infrastructure.
• Manage and evolve observability tools and documentation used by engineers.
• Build and contribute to tooling where the developer experience touches databases.
• Participate in an on-call rotation, and act as an escalation point for engineers when production issues related to datastores occur.
• Define best practices in database administration and introduce innovation with automation.
• Assist in implementing long-term strategic goals for database development in conjunction with end users, managers, clients and other stakeholders.

Required Skills

• Advanced knowledge of query optimization, index management, statistics, and partitioning.
• In-depth knowledge of distributed NoSQL database and Cassandra Architecture.
• Understand the need for documentation and well-defined procedures.
• Forward thinking infrastructure automation and scripting skills.
• Ability to work with team members located in multiple geographies and time zones.
• Excellent verbal, written, and collaborative skills to facilitate cross-functional teams.
• Ability to work with minimal supervision seeking direction as required.
• Strong problem solving and analytical skills and ability to clearly explain and present problems and issues to others and contribute to their resolution.

Required Experience

• Experience running relational databases in large production environments (MySQL, Oracle, PostgreSQL).
• Experience in setting up and managing Cassandra Cluster.
• Experience in automation of database setup and scaling.
• Experience with any object oriented programming language like Python, Ruby, Java etc.
• Linux/Unix shell experience especially with troubleshooting production systems.
• Experience in a config management systems like chef, puppet, ansible, or terraform.
• Experience managing and scaling caching layers such as Memcached/Elasticache.

Education Requirements

• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering or a closely related field.