The Role: How You'll Make an Impact at PersonioAt Personio, we're on a mission to empower organizations to work more efficiently by streamlining and automating thousands of HR processes across Europe. As a Lead Database Reliability Engineer, you'll play a crucial role in ensuring our data platforms are robust, scalable, and high-performing-directly supporting the teams and products that drive Personio's success.
You'll join a talented team, collaborating across Europe to solve complex database challenges, drive automation, and implement best practices. Your expertise will shape the reliability and future of our data infrastructure, making a real impact on how Personio delivers value to our customers.
This role will be Hybrid, based in either our Dublin, London, Madrid, Berlin or Munich office 2 days a week.
What You Will Focus On
- Database Reliability & Performance:Ensure the reliability, performance, and scalability of our core data platforms, proactively identifying and resolving database issues before they impact our business.
- Collaboration & Support:Work closely with engineering teams to support database queries, optimize performance, and provide expert guidance on data storage solutions.
- Automation & Best Practices:Design and implement automation for routine database tasks using scripting (e.g., Bash, Python), and champion best practices in database governance and code review.
- Continuous Improvement:Drive continuous improvement in our database operations, collaborating with engineers to share knowledge and enhance our data infrastructure.
- Innovation & Impact:Influence the future of Personio's data systems by introducing new tools, techniques, and processes that elevate our platform's reliability and efficiency.
What You Need to Succeed
- Deep Database Expertise:Extensive hands-on experience with AWS (especially Amazon RDS), MySQL (MariaDB), and PostgreSQL in production environments.
- Automation Skills:Strong scripting abilities in Bash or Python, with a passion for automating database operations and improving efficiency.
- Customer-Focused Mindset:Excellent communication and collaboration skills, with a proven ability to support and empower engineering teams.
- Problem-Solving & Initiative:A proactive approach to identifying and solving complex database challenges, always seeking opportunities to improve and innovate.
- Desire to Learn & Share:Eagerness to stay up-to-date with the latest database technologies and best practices, and to mentor others on the team.
Why Personio?Aside from working in a high-impact, fast-growing environment, we offer:
- Competitive compensation package including salary, benefits, and virtual shares.
- 26 days of paid vacation + 2 additional days off for Christmas and New Year's Eve.
- Regular company and team events like Oktoberfest, ski trips, Christmas parties, and more!
- PersonioFlex: A remote-friendly hybrid model.
- Mental health support because we know that wellbeing matters. #PersonioCares
- Parental benefits: 10 extra days off if your child gets sick.
- Two Impact Days per year for volunteering or social good initiatives. #SocialResponsibility
Interested? We'd love to hear from you! Apply today and help us build the future of HR automation at Personio.
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What We Do
We believe small and medium-sized organizations are the backbone of global economies, and their most valuable asset is the people they employ. But many of their HR teams are held back by complicated, time-consuming processes and admin. We’re changing that with our all-in-one HR solution that transforms the way millions of people experience work every day.
At the core of our people-focused product are the individuals who craft it: We proudly identify as Personios. As we build on our success as Europe’s leading HR platform for SMEs, we are looking for the brightest minds to bring their own innovative ideas to the table. When you join our team of 1800+ across Europe and the US, you’ll have an impact from day one – for our 15,000 customers and the 1.5 million employees we serve.
Why Work With Us
Personio is one of the most valuable tech startups in Europe, but we're just getting started with revolutionizing HR for the 1.7 million small and medium-sized organizations still stuck in the spreadsheet era. Now we need your experience scaling tech companies to take us to the next level.
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