Staff Data Platform Engineer

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San Francisco, CA
Hybrid
Software
We connect people, spaces and data to power the places where people work best together.
The Role
About Envoy

Envoy’s workplace platform has redefined how companies welcome visitors, improve the onsite experience, book desks and meeting rooms, manage deliveries, and access accurate and unified workplace data in 16,000 locations around the globe by designing products that solve common workplace problems.

Envoy provides a simple way to manage your complex safety, security, and compliance needs across all your workplace locations—wherever you need to bring people together.

Rely on smart, automated solutions to common workplace problems, like freeing up unused space and eliminating repetitive tasks. Not only does this allow you to make the most efficient use of your space and resources, it frees up your team’s time to focus on the work that matters.

With Envoy’s intuitive technology that employees actually enjoy using, you can create a great workplace experience that fosters community and togetherness by making it easy for teams to coordinate working onsite.

Unlike companies that offer disconnected workplace solutions and disparate (and often imprecise) data sources, Envoy’s platform provides accurate, comprehensive, and unified workplace data so you can make informed business decisions. Envoy’s integrated solutions pull data from multiple sources to ensure that you always have the most accurate data available.

For more information, visit Envoy.com.


About the Role

About the role

The Envoy platform is a complex environment that relies heavily on a robust data platform. At its core, Postgres DB is the foundation of the Envoy platform. This is a hybrid Data engineer and DBA role, where strong postgresql DBA foundations are essential, but modern cloud-native experience is also crucial. Successful candidates will also be familiar with data pipelines, tooling like Kafka and be comfortable working alongside fellow software engineers to scale our data platform across message buses, RDBMS and NoSQL storage. Will fill a key role on our team to help us scale the platform as our customer base continues to grow. This person is responsible for configuring, administering, and maintaining PostgreSQL Databases, Redshift clusters, Opensearch/Elasticsearch clusters, and data pipelines. They will work with the Software Engineering leaders to architect the platform for scale, and review teams’ designs for Data scalability and resilience. Other responsibilities include database upgrades, patching, security, troubleshooting and issue resolution, backup procedures, and performance tuning.

This role will provide support and direction to developers and other support personnel as needed. Daily responsibilities include delivering the optics to the broader team to enable them to monitor the DB health and their team’s impact on the DB, providing acceptable system performance, and assuring data is protected and recoverable as required.


This onsite position requires 4 days a week (Monday-Thursday) in our San Francisco HQ office.

You will
  • Work with application engineers and architects to shape our ongoing data management strategy across relational and non-relational storage platforms.
  • Perform Database maintenance - upgrades, patching, security, troubleshooting, issue resolution, backup procedures, and performance tuning. 
  • Consult with software engineers and advise on optimizing query performance.
  • Plan and perform the database upgrades.
  • Work closely with the application team to understand changes planned, perform an impact analysis, and provide feedback.
You have  
  • Required Skills: 5+ years’ hands-on database administration experience, with a minimum of 3 years in PostgreSQL.
  • Python scripting experience or Unix shell scripting experience.
  • Excellent understanding of PostgreSQL database concepts and structures
  • Familiarity with running PostgreSQL databases on modern cloud platforms. 
  • Opensearch/Elasticsearch clusters.
  • Clustering architectures.
  • Exposure to AWS RDS/AWS and Aurora is a plus.

You are
  • An exceptional writer and spoken communicator
  • Highly organized & autonomous
  • Comfortable and energized operating in a fast-moving organization
  • Passionate about our product and working with enterprise-sized businesses
  • Enthusiastic about learning and growing at Envoy
  • Intellectually curious and ambitious
You'll get
  • A high degree of trust in your ideas and execution
  • An opportunity to partner and collaborate with other talented people
  • An inclusive community where you feel welcomed and cared for as a person
  • The ability to make an immediate impact, helping customers create a great workplace experience

                                 
    This application will only be open for two weeks! Don’t miss your chance—apply now before the deadline closes!

Compensation description 

Envoy's compensation package includes a market-competitive salary, equity for all full-time roles, and excellent benefits. If you are located in the San Francisco Bay Area, our expected cash compensation for this role is $250K- $265K (Annually). Final offers may vary within the range provided based on experience, expertise, and other factors.

If you have any questions related to compensation, please get in touch with Recruiting after you apply.

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The Company
HQ: San Francisco, CA
250 Employees
Year Founded: 2013

What We Do

Envoy’s workplace platform has redefined how companies welcome visitors, improve the onsite experience, book desks, and meeting rooms, manage deliveries, and access accurate and unified workplace data in 16,000 locations around the globe by designing products that solve common workplace problems.

Envoy provides a simple way to manage your complex safety, security, and compliance needs across all your workplace locations—wherever you need to bring people together.

Rely on smart, automated solutions to common workplace problems, like freeing up unused space and eliminating repetitive tasks. Not only does this allow you to make the most efficient use of your space and resources, it frees up your team’s time to focus on the work that matters.

With Envoy’s intuitive technology that employees actually enjoy using, you can create a great workplace experience that fosters community and togetherness by making it easy for teams to coordinate working onsite.

Unlike companies that offer disconnected workplace solutions and disparate (and often imprecise) data sources, Envoy’s platform provides accurate, comprehensive, and unified workplace data so you can make informed business decisions. Envoy’s integrated solutions pull data from multiple sources to ensure that you always have the most accurate data available.

For more information, visit Envoy.com.

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