About the job

Engineering at our client's company

The Engineering team includes Data, IT, Security, and Software, and is responsible for building innovative products and infrastructure for both internal and external users. They have multiple autonomous and collaborative teams who are eager to learn, teach, and constantly improve how things work. Together, they strive to build robust and scalable systems that enable rapid growth and help customers reach their full potential.

What you’ll do

The team is responsible for building, maintaining, and monitoring the infrastructure platform which other teams use to build and operate products. They must also evangelize for, and educate other teams about, the infrastructure and best practices for running their services on top of it. This includes working with their Cloud Provider to engineer the computing, data storage, and networking functionality for customers and other critical cloud-based infrastructure components.

As they operate at the most foundational levels, their work has a cascading effect on the entire company. They must always strive to look holistically at architecture to uncover areas of optimization and reliability to drive efficiency.

Responsibilities

• Work within and across Product Engineering teams to determine requirements and challenges to managing their data stores.
• Utilize expertise in databases along with developer skills to design systems that mitigate or surface metrics around database problems.
• Mentor database users on good modeling techniques and query practices as needed.
• Provide or advise tactical solutions to challenges while maintaining service reliability.
• Participate in an On-Call rotation for responding to incidents.
• Operate core systems of the infrastructure to ensure the highest levels of reliability.
• Collaborate closely with other engineers to design, operate, and scale their systems.
• Evangelize best practices both internally and externally.

Requirements

• Significant experience in database modeling, operation, and administration with common open-source technologies such as PostgreSQL.
• Significant experience in systems software development, preferably in DevOps.
• 4+ years of experience working in AWS or equivalent cloud provider.
• 2+ years of experience working with Kubernetes environments.
• Experience working with at least one programming language (e.g., Golang, Java, Python).
• Strong communication (written and verbal) and interpersonal skills.
• Must be willing to work in office 2 days per week on Wednesday and Thursday.

Bonus points

• Interest in adjacent issues such as compliance, confidentiality, and security.
• Capability to discuss thorny issues of concurrency and correctness.

Compensation

The expected salary range for this role is $192,000 - $240,000. However, the starting base pay will depend on a number of factors including the candidate’s location, skills, experience, market demands, and internal pay parity. Depending on the position offered, equity and other forms of compensation may be provided as part of a total compensation package.