Senior Software Engineer - Database Reliability (5-8 yrs)

Job Description :

Roles & Responsibilities :

- You play a leadership role in your area.

- You are known for your subject matter expertise in one or more software engineering 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.

What to Bring :

- 5 - 8 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.

- Experience with CI/CD pipelines, repeatable self-serve gitops-based deployments, and infrastructure-as-code technologies (CloudFormation, Terraform) and processes.

- 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.

- Proficient in functional programming languages (including Python) as well as declarative programming languages (e. SQL, MYSQL).

- You are experienced in hands-on database administration for both SQL and NoSQL technologies.

- 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.