Senior Database Engineer
Our Opportunity:
We are looking for experienced and motivated Sr. Database Engineer who will join our team in Boston, MA; Minneapolis, MN, or Dania Beach, FL. Our team supports hundreds of relational and non-relational transactional and analytical databases hosted on-premises and in the Cloud.
As the member of the team, you will work with multiple database, Cloud and automation technologies. You will collaborate with business users, and help developers with data-tier architecture, performance tuning, and database design and development.
We expect you to have experience working as both, Infrastructure and Developer DBA, be proficient with automation, and have expert-level knowledge of at least one database technology from our portfolio. We don’t expect you to know all technologies we use as long as you are willing to learn and work in highly energetic environment.
What you'll do:
- Work as the member of cross-platform Database Services team
- Be responsible for meeting various SLAs for multiple database platforms used in the company
- Troubleshoot and address various issues in the systems
- Participate in system and data tier architecture, performance tuning and help with database development of performance-critical code
- Architect and implement HA/DR/Backup/Maintenance strategies in the company
- Collaborate with development teams
- Learn other database platforms and technologies
What you'll need:
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Math or related fields
- 8+ years of hands-on experience working with database technologies
- Experience working with at least two, and expert-level knowledge of at least one database technologies in our portfolio: Postgres, SQL Server, Vertica, Snowflake, DynamoDB, MongoDB, DocumentDB
- Proficiency in automation
- Willingness and commitment to learn other database, automation and Cloud technologies
- Understanding of various relational and non-relational database technologies along with their benefits, downsides and best use-case
- Experience working with the databases in public Clouds, preferably AWS
- Strong analytical skills
- Ability to perform system monitoring and address various issues in the system
- Ability to do performance tuning and database development
- Great communication and collaboration skills
Bonus
- Software development experience and knowledge of modern software development processes
- Experience working with ETL and replication tools
- Knowledge of Terraform, Ansible and Python
- Experience in Agile development methodology & Agile development tools
- E-commerce, Retail, Supply Chain functional knowledge
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