In-Memory Database Platform Engineer

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in United States.

📋 Description

• Design, deploy, manage, and provide support for both production and non-production Redis environments utilizing on-premises infrastructure and cloud-managed in-memory database services.

• Execute installation, configuration, patching, version upgrades, migrations, lifecycle management, and routine platform maintenance.

• Provide support for Redis standalone, replication, and clustered architectures.

• Collaborate with application teams on aspects such as connectivity, caching patterns, key design, data structures, performance, resilience, and operational readiness.

• Support managed services including Amazon ElastiCache for Redis/Valkey, Amazon MemoryDB, Azure Managed Redis, and Google Cloud Memorystore.

• Assist with provisioning, scaling, monitoring, networking, access management, and migrations within cloud environments.

• Configure and maintain high availability, persistence, snapshots, backups, retention, restores, and recovery validation.

• Monitor availability, memory usage, latency, throughput, replication health, capacity, and overall performance.

• Analyze and optimize Redis configurations, memory policies, data structures, client behavior, connection patterns, hot keys, and workloads.

• Troubleshoot production incidents, contribute to root-cause analysis, and implement corrective and preventive measures.

• Implement authentication, authorization, least-privilege access, network controls, auditing, and credential-management integrations.

• Develop and maintain automation using source control, APIs, CI/CD, configuration management, and Infrastructure as Code.

• Provide operational support, engage in on-call rotations, incident response, change management, and problem management.

• Create and maintain runbooks, troubleshooting guides, standards, and operational documentation.

• Work autonomously on standard engineering tasks while collaborating with senior engineers on complex designs, migrations, and incidents.

⛳️ Requirements

• Over 4 years of experience in database administration, database engineering, platform engineering, or related infrastructure roles.

• At least 2 years of hands-on experience with Redis administration or engineering within production or enterprise environments.

• Proficient understanding of Redis architecture, persistence, replication, clustering, memory management, security, maintenance, and performance tuning.

• Practical experience with high availability, backup/recovery or persistence strategies, monitoring, capacity planning, and production support.

• Familiarity with at least one cloud-managed in-memory database service or a comparable cloud database platform.

• Strong Linux administration and troubleshooting abilities; RHEL or a similar enterprise Linux distribution is preferred.

• Capability to troubleshoot issues related to databases, operating systems, storage, networks, client connectivity, and application integration.

• Experience in executing upgrades, patching, migrations, platform changes, and controlled production releases.

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, along with the ability to collaborate effectively across engineering teams.

• Background investigation is required.

• A dedicated, private workspace and reliable internet with a minimum of 50 MB download and 5 MB upload speeds are required when working from home.

• Allstate typically does not sponsor individuals for employment-based visas for this position.

🏝️ Benefits

• Comprehensive technology setup, including a laptop, monitors, headset, keyboard, and mouse.

• Monthly connectivity reimbursement for eligible employees working remotely.

• Fully remote work arrangement.

• A dedicated private workspace and reliable internet requirements for home work.