Sr. Database Engineer : Position is remote

["Dave, Chirag" <chirag.dave@xxxxxxx>]

Job Description:

Do you like to make things that scale?  Do you enjoy the challenge of debugging and improving those things when they are already at scale?  Our team works with some of the biggest companies on the planet to develop, build and operate distributed systems with millions of simultaneous users, and deal with data sets whose growth is currently measured in petabytes/day.
 
Responsibilities include:

• Managing/Architecting large scale Postgres/Cassandra based metadata system
• In-depth knowledge of Postgresql Internal and Administration
• Ability to analyze, diagnose and tune database performance issues
• Configure backup and define automated disaster recovery procedures
• Planning effective monitoring and setting up long term trending data for future tuninig
• Participating in collaborative projects with small software engineering teams
• Develop automation, processes, and tools designed to make our services simpler and more robust
• Participate in troubleshooting, capacity planning and analysis, performance analysis activities
• Advise management on service onboarding strategies and execution

Critical Hiring Criteria

What we are looking for:       

•     Entrepreneurs who seek the kinds of challenges that scare most people.  "Yeah, I did that!"

•     Creativity, initiative and acute attention to detail

•     Thirst for innovation and solving problems at lightning speed

•     Passion for automating everything repetitive

•     Obsession with software scalability and performance under high loads

•     Love for using and contributing to open-source software

Please bring to the table:

•     Ability to build highly available database system using Postgres and related technology

•     Development experience, comfortable working in multiple languages at once (Python /Java is plus)

•     Experience working in collaborative coding environments (peer review, continuous integration, etc)

•     2+ years of application development

•     Experience working in distributed, remote teams across multiple time zones a plus

•     Experience in large scale operations environments

•     2+ years of experience with Linux/Unix development or systems administration

•     1+ years of experience with networking systems and technologies

•     Deep understanding of network performance and security, IPv6 experience a plus

•     Ability to identify tasks which require automation and implement required automation

•     Configuration Management tools experience with Puppet, Ansible, SaltStack or CFEngine

•     Hands-on operational experience in a high-volume or critical production service environment - distributed systems, capacity planning, continuous deployment

•     BA/BS in Computer Science preferred, or equivalent experience (advanced degrees preferred)

•     Experience leading teams a plus

 

We have opportunities to work with and learn:

•     Object Storage (e.g. ViPR, Swift)

•     OpenStack core technologies

•     vSphere/VCD

•     HDFS and OpenTSDB

•     NoSQL technologies (e.g. Cassandra)

•     Postgres related technologies at large scale