Sr. Engineer, Database Reliability

📋 Description

• Own the reliability of our caching layer: capacity planning, failover behavior, upgrade strategy
• Participate in our on-call rotation and serve as the point of escalation for data-layer issues
• Support internal customers day to day, from troubleshooting a slow query to advising on storage
• Manage our database and cache infrastructure as code, evolving our Terraform modules and
• Build database and cache templated standards within our internal platform's golden path that take
• Build and maintain observability for the data layer: dashboards, alerts, and SLOs that give both

🎯 Requirements

• At least 7 years in systems administration, systems engineering, or software development, with at
• Deep expertise in MySQL or PostgreSQL and working knowledge of the other, including each engine's
• Understanding caching (such as Redis) as part of the data layer, how to design and operate it at
• Designed and maintained highly available, cloud-based database systems in AWS or another cloud
• Comfortable operating stateful services alongside Kubernetes or other distributed systems.
• Implemented metrics, logging, and alerting for data systems using tools like Datadog, Prometheus