Systems Engineer - Database Platform

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Available Locations: Austin, New York, San Francisco

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. 

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 in scripting languages (Python, Bash) for automation. 
Experience building and maintaining database tooling for automation and monitoring.
Experience with containerization technologies like Docker and Kubernetes.
Experience optimizing database performance and query tuning.
Experience with alerting and monitoring tools such as Prometheus, Grafana, and Kibana.
Experience developing software in Go, Ruby or C/C++
Contributions to PostgreSQL or relevant open-source projects.
Expertise in database schema migrations and automation using tools like Flyway, Liquibase or goose. 
Experience with connection pooling solutions such as PgBouncer, HAProxy.
Experience with non-relational data stores such as Distributed & time-series databases (ex. Cassandra, Timescale) and key-value stores (eg., Redis)