Senior Database Administrator (DevOps) - Europe

Who are we?

Founded in 2013, Housecall Pro helps home service professionals (Pros) streamline every aspect of their business. With easy-to-use tools for scheduling, dispatching, payments, and more, Housecall Pro enables Pros to save time, grow profitably, and provide best-in-class service. Housecall Pro’s brand portfolio includes Business Coaching by Housecall Pro, a business coaching solution for home services businesses. Our brands are united by a singular mission to champion our Pros to success.
We support more than 40,000 businesses and have over 1,800 ambitious, mission-driven, genuinely fun-loving teammates across the globe (half of the engineering team is in Poland 🇵🇱). If you want to do work that impacts real people, supported by a team that will invest in you every step of the way, we’d love to hear from you.

Housecall Pro celebrates diversity and we are committed to creating an inclusive environment. We are an equal opportunity employer and do not discriminate on the basis of gender, race, religion, national origin, ethnicity, disability, gender identity/expression, sexual orientation, veteran or military status, or any other category protected under the law.

Our teams build an application that improves users’ lives (70k users, 4.6 rates at App Store) 👉  Learn more about the HCP product. 

Compensation: 7 000 - 8 500 USD per month (B2B)

🚀  We also offer:

• Paid time off
• 100% remote work
• Flexible work hours
• Equity shares in a rapidly growing company backed by top-tier VCs
• A culture built on innovation that values big ideas
• We work in Central European Time
• Newest MacBook + Setup Fee ($500)

🚀 Role Overview:

As a Senior Database Administrator, you are a part of a technical team that architects, builds, maintains, scales, monitors, and secures the Housecall Pro cloud infrastructure. This team promotes flexibility and autonomy and empowers you with creative freedom and ownership in your work. You are a part of the DevOps department, inside the larger engineering team, collaborating to drive performance, resilience, reliability and availability in our Database systems. Your ultimate goal is to enable engineering to help good Pros become great Pros, by creating a solid, flexible, and stable foundation that enables us to ship quickly in the face of massive growth. You face challenges with systems running real users and data with imagination, tenacity, and attention to detail. You are motivated to follow your curiosity into solutions, answers, and actions. Your superpower is empowering engineers with a Data First mindset, enabling others to make great decisions governing the storage, transmission, retrieval, and analysis of our data.

🚀 What you do each day:  

• Enjoy a mixture of schema design, reliability engineering, query and performance tuning, and operations work
• Build infrastructure in a public cloud using Infrastructure as Code techniques
• Collaborate with release engineering and delivery teams to optimize schema and data migrations, as part of our Agile development process
• Build, maintain, and monitor data persistence systems (ACID-compliant OLTP, OLAP, Search and KV/NoSQL) in our cloud environments with an eye to both flexibility and long-term viability
• Provide technical assistance, architectural insights, and individual contributor work across engineering
• Mentor, pair, and imbue delivery teams with techniques and data access patterns to improve our applications’ interface with our data tier
• Work directly with feature teams to optimize the development experience

🚀 Qualifications: 

• 5+ years of MySQL (8.0) and 3+ years of PostgreSQL administration and scaling experience
• Strong experience with traditional OLAP systems, ETL and associated Data Engineering and Data Warehouse practices
• Strong expertise in managing growing datasets using techniques like Partitioning, Sharding, Caching, Archiving, and Clustering
• Proficiency in performance profiling tools (Percona Toolkit, pgBadger, pg_stat_statements) and backup, restore, replication, and disaster recovery patterns
• Familiarity with at least one NoSQL implementation (e.g. Redis)
• Demonstrated experience with infrastructure as code tools (Terragrunt, Terraform, CloudFormation)
• Understanding of distributed systems and tradeoffs between consistency, availability, and partition tolerance
• Demonstrate a strong passion for using AI technologies to enhance productivity, quality, and innovation
• Curiosity and drive to stay ahead of emerging AI/ML technologies and their practical applications

🚀 Preferred qualifications:

• Experience with Redshift, or Snowflake administration
• Experience with Amazon Aurora and data replication to development environments.
• Experience with Elasticsearch/Opensearch in a cloud environment

🚀 What will help you succeed in this role:

• High-level written and verbal communication skills with the ability to work with team members from across the globe
• Reading and reasoning about code you are not familiar with 
• Discussing tradeoffs between B-tree and bitmap indexes is second-nature
• Understanding (and helping others understand) Cardinality, Data types, Transactions and Constraints in database design
• Experience in an Agile environment, thrive on iteration, and make opportunities to bring value sooner rather than later

Sounds interesting?
We're waiting for your resume!

This role is open to candidates inside the European Union. The specific salary for the successful candidate will be determined based on permissible, non-discriminatory factors such as skills and experience.