Senior Site Reliability Engineer, Databases

Summary

Join Valimail, a leading email authentication company, as a Senior Site Reliability Engineer, Databases. You will play a crucial role in securing billions of inboxes by evangelizing standard methodologies for building and operating highly reliable data storage systems. This position requires deep expertise in Postgres, database fundamentals, and cloud technologies. You will collaborate with cross-functional teams, design reliable systems, and participate in on-call rotations. Valimail offers competitive pay, comprehensive benefits, and a remote-first work environment.

Requirements

• 5+ years experience building and maintaining highly available relational databases
• Work collaboratively with cross functional teams
• Value team success over individual success
• Put industry and engineering best practices into practice and promotes them to others
• Passion for reliable, scalable, and performant datastores with strong sense of ownership
• Experience building and supporting highly performant and highly reliable datastores
• Deep experience working with Postgres
• Expert in database fundamentals, SQL, PL/pgSQL, (or other)
• Experience with NOSQL datastores and caching solutions
• Working knowledge of AWS or Azure cloud providers
• Experience with Infrastructure-as-Code tools, such as Terraform

Responsibilities

• Evangelize standard methodologies for building and operating highly reliable data storage systems
• Serve as the subject matter expert in datastore design and performance
• Build and support Valimail’s mission-critical datastores
• Conduct timely post mortems of production datastore incidents
• Collaboratively design systems with other engineers to meet reliability, scalability, and performance requirements
• Provide assistance to teams working with datastores
• Automate routine database tasks
• Participate in on-call rotation and incident response
• Upgrade data storage systems as necessary

Preferred Qualifications

Regularly demonstrates our behaviors/values ( Be inclusive, Be Trustworthy, Be a Learner and Be Driven ) in addition to demonstrating a strong technical acumen

Benefits

• Competitive pay + participation in employee stock option plan. The anticipated salary range for this role is $170,000 - $190,000
• This role is eligible to participate in our equity incentive plan
• Comprehensive health, dental, + vision coverage
• Six weeks of paid parental leave for all parents, and an additional 6 weeks for parents giving birth
• Remote First Company, you can work anywhere within the US
• Unlimited and flexible PTO. We believe balanced, happy, relaxed people do better work