Galileo Financial Technologies is hiring a
Staff Database Engineer, Remote - United States

Summary

The job is for a Data Services team member at Galileo Financial Technologies. The role involves managing and upgrading the data infrastructure of their tech platform, working closely with a team to ensure scalability, building tools for faster feature shipping, providing guidelines for data-intensive application development, analyzing SQL performance, writing monitoring scripts, communicating project health, and providing rotating on-call support.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field or equivalent work experience
• Minimum 5 years experience in managing highly available RDBMS environments with partitioning and clustering technology (e.g. Postgresql, Oracle)
• Proficiency in SQL
• Proficiency in automating using an object-oriented language (e.g. Python, Java, Go, PowerShell, or equivalent)
• Hands-on experience with operating RDBMS environments in AWS
• Hands-on experience with Schema as Code capabilities and tooling
• Hands-on with experience observability tools (e.g., DataDog, Splunk, Cloudwatch)
• Hands-on with experience version control systems (e.g., Git, SVN)
• Hands-on with experience CI/CD tools (e.g., GitLab CI, Jenkins, Travis CI, Circle CI)
• Hands-on with experience configuration management tools (e.g., Terraform, Ansible, Puppet, Chef)
• Excellent problem-solving and communication skills

Responsibilities

• Be a technical lead in developing guidelines for managing, upgrading, and deep-dive analysis for operational issues in a highly performing financial service tech platform
• Work closely with a team of operations & engineers to ensure the platform is durable and scalable
• Work on building tools and processes to enable application teams to ship features that rely on data faster
• Provide data storage and access guidelines and best practices in data-intensive application development
• Analyze SQL performance and provide recommendations to improve and stabilize performance
• Write, test, and deploy efficient, scalable monitoring scripts
• Communicate ongoing project health with key stakeholders and business leadership
• Provide rotating on-call support

Preferred Qualifications

• Certifications such as AWS Certification on RDS, Postgresql Professional Certification
• Experience with microservices architecture
• Knowledge of Agile methodologies
• Hands-on experience with additional cloud platforms (e.g., Azure, GCP)