Senior Database Reliability Engineer

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

📋 Description

• Assess database architectures and suggest enhancements for improved performance and availability

• Collaborate within agile Scrum and Kanban frameworks to facilitate engineering initiatives

• Address database outages, assist in triaging, and resolve database-related challenges

• Analyze database schemas, partitions, views, and queries to implement performance enhancements

• Oversee and maintain database replication to ensure resilience and fault recovery

• Make decisions regarding product selection, design methodologies, and modeling for AWS and GCP database strategies

• Design database architectures that support business continuity, backups, compute, networking, and storage development

• Utilize Terraform and GitOps for the automation of infrastructure deployment and creation

• Develop a unified, replicable database design architecture for new installations

• Execute additional responsibilities as necessary

⛳️ Requirements

• Proficiency in working with K8S operators, particularly Zalando and CNPG

• Experience with Postgres, Kafka, or other distributed event streaming systems, ETLs, and CDC

• 5+ years of practical Database Engineering experience; Postgres is mandatory

• 5+ years of experience in an AWS or GCP cloud environment

• 3+ years of advanced programming experience in Python or Go

• Strong background in database monitoring

• Extensive experience in database architecture

• Solid experience in Kubernetes production environments

• Familiarity with applications that require compliance audits

• Experience in addressing production support issues and ensuring timely resolutions

• Experience in building infrastructure as code (IaC), preferably using Terraform

🏝️ Benefits

• Competitive compensation package

• Comprehensive benefits package

• Enjoyable and relaxed work atmosphere

• Reimbursements for education and conference attendance

• Bonus eligibility for most non-sales roles

• Top-tier benefits with tailored options, expert guidance, and continuous support tools for physical, financial, and emotional well-being