Staff Cloud Database Engineer

Summary

Join Varo, a digital bank, as a Staff Cloud Database Engineer. You will be responsible for cloud database services, driving the vision and ownership of enterprise database systems. This role involves building and improving infrastructure, leading and mentoring teams, and collaborating with stakeholders. You will work with stakeholders to define database requirements, consult on optimal database design, resolve database issues, and improve operational support. The position requires extensive experience in Postgres and AWS database administration, systems administration, and distributed computing environments. A competitive salary is offered.

Requirements

• 8+ years of Postgres Database Administration experience on RDS
• 8+ years of AWS Database Administration experience (Dynamo, RedShift, Etc)
• 8+ years of experience with systems administration in a Linux environment
• 5+ years of experience on AWS - particularly IAM, EC2, S3, RDS, DMS
• Solid understanding of distributed computing environments, including distributed SQL systems
• Expertise in database administration activities like installation, configuration, backup & recovery, query optimizations, creating roles, managing user permissions and resolving deadlocks
• Expertise with query analyzers and query tuning
• Experience in implementing different types of replication models like Snapshot, Merge and Transactional
• Expertise in handling database maintenance with minimal to zero downtime

Responsibilities

• Work with stakeholders to understand database requirements, plan capacity, drive observability for database(s), execute maintenance, and build enterprise level roadmaps for database initiatives
• Provide architecture consultation around optimal database design and performance
• Work with Engineering teams to help resolve database issues and deficiencies
• Improve operational support including monitoring, performance analysis, testing, and debugging
• Provide regular database training including holding discussions with development teams regarding best practices, trade-offs, and risk mitigation
• Monitor and be on-call for all aspects of databases from the hardware; like disk, network, cpu, and memory as well as internal components like tables, indexes, error logs, transaction logs, user sessions, and buffers
• Identify and resolve database contention and performance issues (slow-running queries, bottlenecks, and other latency related issues)

Benefits

$180,000 - $220,000 a year