Database Reliability Engineer (Remote)

NOTE: THIS POSITION IS TO JOIN AS W2 ONLY.

Senior Database Reliability Engineer / Database SME

Location: Atlanta, GA (Remote)

Duration: 3+ Months

Job Responsibilities / Typical Day in the Role:

• You play a leadership role in your area. You are known for your subject matter expertise in one or more database reliability specializations.
• You have a platform-wide view of the solutions that you build, and you consistently think in terms of architecture.
• You are a key influencer in your team’s strategy and contribute significantly to team planning.
• You have built multiple high-performance, stable, scalable systems that have been successfully shipped to customers in production.
• You show good judgement making trade-offs between immediate and long-term business needs.
• You still actively seek input where appropriate and engage your team to inform and share what you are doing.
• You can describe and defend your design and code decisions to other engineers, embrace constructive feedback, and adapt your approach to align with team and company standards and objectives.
• You offer enhancements to best practices, document, design, and architecture improvements, and as feedback through code reviews to other engineers without continuous prompting or recurring encouragement. Other engineers appreciate your feedback.
• You can troubleshoot a production issue by reviewing source code, logs, operational metrics, stack trace etc. to pinpoint a specific problem and then resolve it.
• You can partner with SRE and service team engineers, to devise database solutions that satisfy service team needs.
• Contribute to building a vibrant workplace, where teams can thrive, and model the organization’s positive, supportive culture of respect and excellence

Technology requirements:

• Proficient in functional programming languages (including Python) as well as declarative programming languages (e.g. SQL, MYSQL).
• You are experienced in hands-on database administration for both SQL and NoSQL technologies.
• Familiarity with elements of our greater service tech stack, including containerized Kubernetes-based microservice architectures, performance testing platform and tools, JS, APMs, messaging services, API gateways.
• Experience with database dashboarding as a service.
• Expertise with CI/CD pipelines, repeatable self-serve gitops-based deployments, and infrastructure-as-code technologies (CloudFormation, Terraform) and processes.

Years experience:

• 5+ years of hands-on experience and technical leadership with cloud-native database technologies in a production environment and familiarity with AWS database services (Aurora Postgres, DynamoDB, ElastiCache, Keyspaces).
• 2+ years of experience working in public or private cloud environments, with preference for AWS.

Must Have Skills / Requirements

• Experience in RDBMS, NoSQL
• Must have extensive experience on either RDBMS or NoSQL and also should be open to learning new DB technologies.
• Experience with Cloud
• Must have experience working with any cloud provider.
• Experience with Infrastructure as Code.
• Experience with any of the Iac like terraform, cloudformation, ansible etc would do.
• Nice to Have Skills / Preferred Requirements
• Experience with GHA, Jenkins etc
• Exposure to multi-tenant database environments is a big plus.

Soft Skills

• You drive best practices and set standards for your team.
• You solve business problems with simple and straightforward solutions, applying appropriate technologies and software engineering best practices.
• You deliver high-quality results the first time and improve code, documentation, and results with each iteration. Your team trusts your work.

Interview Process / Next Steps

• 3-round interview process:
• STAR Method questions to be expected.
• Technical exercise to be expected.