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- Work on database reliability and performance aspects for ClickUp from within Platform Engineering
- Participate in OnCall support rotation
- Implement best practices for our PostgreSQL database cluster and its components
- Work on observability of relevant database metrics and make sure we reach our database objectives
- Provide database expertise to engineering teams (review of database migrations, queries and performance optimizations)
- Work on automation of database infrastructure and help engineering succeed by providing self-service tools
- Plan the growth and manage the capacity of ClickUp's database infrastructure
- Design, build and maintain core database infrastructure pieces that allow ClickUp to scale
- Support and debug database production issues across services and levels of the stack
- Make monitoring and alerting alert on symptoms and SLOs, and not on outages
- Document every action so your learnings turn into repeatable actions, then into automation
- Perform and run blameless RCA's on incidents and outages, relentlessly looking for answers that will prevent the incident from ever happening again.
- Help engineering succeed by providing self-service tools
- Work with peer DBAs/DBREs to roll out changes to our production environment
- Help mitigate database-related production incidents
- Provide database expertise to engineering teams (for eg. through reviews of db migrations, query and performance optimizations)
- Design, build and maintain core database pieces for massive scaling
- Support and debug database production issues across services and levels of the stack.
- 5 years of experience running PostgreSQL in large production environments.
- 2 years of experience with infrastructure automation and configuration management (Chef, Ansible, Puppet, Terraform…).
- Managed a DB at least 100GB in size on a high OLTP throughput database environment
- 2 years of experience with any programming language or advanced scripting - Python, bash
- Knowledge of Linux and/or the Unix Shell
- Have solid knowledge of SQL and PL/pgSQL
- Have solid knowledge of the internals of PostgreSQL.
- Have experience working in a distributed production environment.
- Share ClickUp’s core values and work in accordance with those values.
- Have excellent written and verbal English communication skills.
- Great collaborations skills and can communicate asynchronously.
- Being Proactive - You see something broken, you can't help but fix it!
- Urge for delivering quickly and iterating fast.
- Have a passion for stable and secure systems management practices.
- Cloud technology experience with AWS, Azure, GCP
- Some data modeling and design skills
- Show ownership of Relational Database/PostgreSQL ecosystem
- Bonus if you know non-relational database technologies - DynamoDB, Redis, etc.
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