Systems Engineer (Database Platform)

• We manage an internal, multi-region PostgreSQL platform that enables engineers to rapidly build, deploy, and operate services. Our mission is to provide a highly available, stable, and self-service platform with clear operational visibility
• As a Systems Engineer, you will collaborate with database engineers, developers, and infrastructure teams to evolve our database architecture and automation
• You will be instrumental in scaling our PostgreSQL infrastructure and enhancing database reliability. If you are passionate about PostgreSQL, automation, reliability, and database tooling, let’s connect!
• Build, deploy, and manage PostgreSQL database clusters in production environments
• Develop and maintain database tooling for automation, monitoring and performance tuning
• Implement high availability, backup and disaster recovery solutions
• Work closely with Infrastructure and Applications teams to integrate database tools
• Implement proactive solutions using observability tools to monitor database health
• Optimize database performance, indexing strategies, and query tuning

Benefits

• Competitive pay: We offer a competitive total rewards package, where every employee is an owner of our stock.
• Take-what-you-need vacation: We encourage employees to find a comfortable work-life balance by taking as many days off as they need while still being able to perform their jobs satisfactorily. (We really mean it!)
• Paid maternity & paternity leave: Our global parental leave policy allows up to sixteen paid weeks of bonding leave time for all qualifying new parents.
• Employee benefits: We offer a comprehensive benefits package including healthcare, life insurance, short- and long-term disability, pension plans in accordance with the market practice in our locations.
• Commuter program: We are flexible about where we work and value connecting at the office. Our commuter benefits program is in place to support team members’ commute to work via public transportation without the extra cost burden.
• Wellbeing: Global offerings that provide mental health, childcare and family forming support to our employees across our offices.- Experience in scripting languages (Python, Bash) for automation
• Experience with building, scaling, and managing large-scale multi-tenant PostgreSQL database clusters, encompassing high availability failover, and disaster recovery strategies
• Experience with infrastructure-as-code (Terraform, Ansible or Salt)
• Experience with alerting and monitoring tools such as Prometheus, Grafana, and Kibana
• Experience with containerization technologies like Docker and Kubernetes
• Experience building and maintaining database tooling for automation and monitoring
• Experience optimizing database performance and query tuning
• Experience with non-relational data stores such as Distributed & time-series databases (ex. Cassandra, Timescale) and key-value stores (eg., Redis)
• Experience with connection pooling solutions such as PgBouncer, HAProxy
• Expertise in database schema migrations and automation using tools like Flyway, Liquibase or goose
• Experience developing software in Go, Ruby or C/C++
• Contributions to PostgreSQL or relevant open-source projects