their team of scientists, technologists, and academics looks beyond the traditional to develop creative solutions to some of the world’s most complex economic problems.
The Database Engineering team operates the most critical database systems which are integrated tightly with their highly parallel research environment and core live trading systems. They are also developing new database services and solutions to further scale their research platform and growing their database offerings by adopting cloud native database platforms. The challenge, complexity, and impact of this team will grow substantially as they scale their research and trading systems to remain at the forefront of an industry where latencies are approaching zero and the depth and breadth of relevant data sources is growing exponentially.
You will take on the following responsibilities:
- Provide production support for the critical applications running on PostgreSQL to ensure ongoing health and fast recovery in the event of a failure
- Provide consultation for user adoption, application optimization, and usage best practices
- Design and build software to integrate modern database solutions with their data ecosystem (Storage backend, development toolings, etc)
- Research and evaluate new database technologies or tools, adopt them to improve their database infrastructure’s manageability, scalability and productivity
- Design and implement software components & services to enable seamless user adoption of cloud database services. This includes but is not limited to: tooling for data replication/migration, database backup and recovery, mainstreaming observability and monitoring, and automation for provisioning and upgrade
You should possess the following qualifications:
- Minimum 7 years of experience required; 7-15 years of experience preferred within the database domain
- BS degree in Computer Science or relevant technical subject area
- Expertise working with PostgreSQL databases
- Hands-on experience working with a Public Cloud Platform & running databases in the Cloud
- Hands-on experience with database design, application integration, and performance tuning
- Strong software engineering skills - designing, developing, testing and troubleshooting code in one and/or more of the following programming languages: Python, Java, or PowerShell
- Experience in designing and leading system automation and integration related work
- Good understanding of operating systems (Linux & Windows), network fundamentals, and system performance
Tom Morgan
Managing Partner
Pencom Systems, Inc.
phone: 212 671 1967
mobile: 917 742 7612
http://www.pencom.com/
http://www.linkedin.com/in/tommorgan1
