Database Reliability Engineer

Summary

Join PrizePicks, a rapidly growing sports company, as a Database Reliability Engineer and contribute to the reliability and scalability of our data platform. You will collaborate with a team of DevOps and Site Reliability Engineers to design, implement, and maintain our database infrastructure. This role requires extensive experience with PostgreSQL and cloud database technologies, a strong understanding of SRE concepts, and a passion for automation. We offer a competitive compensation package, including company-subsidized benefits, flexible PTO, generous paid leave, and opportunities for professional development. While we prefer candidates in Atlanta, we are open to remote work for qualified applicants across the U.S. PrizePicks fosters an inclusive and collaborative work environment.

Requirements

• 5+ years of relevant work experience
• Extensive experience in database management and infrastructure design with PostgreSQL
• Expert knowledge and experience in delivering cloud database technologies at scale
• Strong knowledge of PostgreSQL internals and best practices design, scaling, and reliability patterns
• Unwavering commitment to automating all-the-things
• Experience working in a startup environment at a fast pace with a distributed team
• Proven track record of building large, geographically distributed scalable infrastructure in a programmatic way
• Passion for technology and collaboration
• Extensive Linux experience
• Python, Ruby, or Go expertise
• Experience with Terraform
• Experience in working with fundamental cloud technologies like virtualization and TCP/IP networking and abstractions (not just AWS, GCP or Azure)
• You must be authorized to work for any employer in the U.S

Responsibilities

• Help design and implement the next generation of PrizePicks’ data infrastructure using PostgreSQL-compatible cloud databases
• Work with peers to roll out changes to our production environment and help mitigate database-related production incidents
• Make monitoring and alerting alert on symptoms and SLOs, and not on outages
• Provide database expertise to engineering teams (for example through reviews of database migrations, queries and performance optimizations)
• Work on automation of database infrastructure and help engineering succeed by providing self-service tools
• Work closely with security to implement security controls to ensure enforcement of policies and procedures and advise on best practices
• Deeply analyze platform performance and find areas to improve speed and scale
• Participate in a 24/7 on-call rotation

Preferred Qualifications

Extensive datacenter experience

Benefits

• Company-subsidized medical, dental, & vision plans
• 401(k) plan with company match
• Bi-annual bonus
• Flexible PTO to encourage a healthy work/life balance (2 weeks STRONGLY encouraged!)
• Generous paid leave programs, including 16-week paid parental leave and disability benefits
• Workplace flexibility and modern work schedules focused on getting the job done, not hours clocked
• Company-wide in-person events and team outings
• Lifestyle enhancement program
• Company equipment provided (Windows & Mac options)
• Annual performance reviews with opportunities for growth and career development