Database Engineer

Summary

Join PENN Entertainment, Inc., a leading provider of integrated entertainment, sports content, and casino gaming experiences, as a Senior Database Engineer. You will be part of a thriving Engineering team working cross-functionally to optimize platform performance. This role involves designing and administering databases, resolving production issues, and leveraging cloud technologies in AWS and GCP. You will be responsible for evaluating database architectures, supporting engineering efforts, managing replication, and making product choices for database direction. The ideal candidate has 5+ years of hands-on database engineering experience with Postgres, 5+ years in AWS or GCP, 2+ years of programming experience in Python or Go, and strong experience in database monitoring, architecture, Kubernetes, compliance audits, production support, and infrastructure as code.

Requirements

• 5+ years of hands on Database Engineering (Postgres preferred)
• 5+ years working within an AWS or GCP cloud environment
• 2+ years of high-level programming experience in Python or Go
• Strong database monitoring experience
• Strong database architecture experience
• Strong Kubernetes production experience
• Experience working with applications requiring compliance audits
• Experience with production support issues, and how to remediate in a timely manner
• Experience building infrastructure as code via IaC (preferably terraform)

Responsibilities

• Evaluate current database architectures and suggest improvements to maintain performance and availability
• Work within agile scrum & kanban to foster Engineering and support efforts
• Support the engineering organization by responding to database outages, helping triage, and remediating any database-related issues
• Support the engineering organization by evaluating database schemas, partitions, views and queries, implementing changes to increase database performance
• Manage and maintain replication between databases, ensuring resilience and the ability to recover from faults (observability platform in place already)
• Product choice decisions, design methods, and modelling for AWS and GCP database direction
• DB architecture to support our business continuity plan, backups, compute, network and storage development, using Terraform to automate deployment/creation leveraging GitOps
• Build and develop a common database design architecture that can be easily replicated for new database installations
• Experience with Postgres, Kafka (other distributed event streaming systems), ETLs and CDC
• Other duties as required

Benefits

• Competitive compensation package
• Comprehensive Benefits package
• Fun, relaxed work environment
• Education and conference reimbursements