Senior Database Administrator
Greenlight is a fintech company that makes a debit card for kids and companion apps for the family. We proudly serve more than 4 million parents and kids, with in-app tools for sending money, setting savings goals, monitoring balances, managing chores, automating allowance, and investing.
But that’s not all that we do. Here at Greenlight, we are on a mission to support parents and help every kid grow up to be financially healthy and happy. It’s no small task, but it’s the reason we leap out of bed every morning to come to work. Because creating a better, brighter future for kids depends on it.
Greenlight is looking for an experienced Senior DBA to own and manage our operational databases supporting our direct-to-consumer and SaaS products. In this role you will collaborate with our engineering teams to coordinate migrations, call out dependencies, and plan for releases.
Technologies we use:
- Backend: Node.js, Kotlin, Java, Go
- Frontend: React, Redux, Swift, Kotlin
- REST, gRPC, graphQL
- AWS
- MySQL(AWS Aurora), DynamoDB, Redis, Skeema, Rundeck
- Kubernetes, Ambassador, Helm, Rancher
What you will be doing:
- SQL/NoSQL Data Administration and Storage (Indexing/Clustering/Sharding/Replication/HA)
- Facilitate the use of database infrastructure and standards
- Ensure we have the proper observability and alerting
- Mature and implement a disaster recovery plan
- Manage database access controls
- Responsible for actively participating in minor and major version upgrades
- Provide on-call support and responsible for database remediations resulting from incidents
- Review and approve PRs that include database changes
- Provide SQL development support to engineering and technical support teams.
- Actively monitor databases for performance issues, and take steps to identify, document, and resolve them
- Take part in Agile team ceremonies and be responsible for managing work in JIRA
- Identify and automate frequently requested changes using a combination of scripting and tools such as Rundeck
What you should bring:
- Ability to manage mission critical highly transactional and distributed databases (MySQL preferred) in the cloud
- Comfortable with rotational on-call support
- Proficient in SQL development
- Experience in troubleshooting and resolving database integrity issues, performance issues, blocking and deadlocking issues, replication and connectivity issues, etc
- Experience in performance tuning, query optimization, and performance monitoring
- Experience administering AWS RDS Aurora, DynamoDB or Redis (AWS Elasticache)
Last year, Greenlight was valued at $2.3B, backed by leading venture capitalists and institutional investors. Now, it takes a special kind of person to join a never-been-done-before mission like ours. We need people who love working with each other because they know it makes us stronger, people who look to others and ask, “How can I help?” and then “How can we make this even better?” If you’re ready to roll up your sleeves and help parents raise a generation of financially smart kids, apply to join our team today.
Greenlight is an equal opportunity employer and will not discriminate against any employee or applicant on the basis of age, race, color, national origin, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, religion, physical or mental disability, medical condition (including pregnancy, childbirth, or medical condition related to pregnancy or childbirth), genetic information, marital status, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local law.