Senior Database Reliability Engineer, Quizlet

• 5+ years of experience software development, comfortable coding in PHP, Hacklang, Python or Go
• 3+ years of experience in systems and infrastructure engineering
• Experience building and maintaining data services
• Familiarity with design and maintaining high availability cloud-based database systems in GCP or other cloud platforms
• Experience working in distributed production environment
• A great understanding of how complex systems work and not afraid to dive deep into each component
• Working knowledge of Kubernetes and IAC tools like Terraform and Helm
• Passion for learning and technology, keen on sharing not just the wins but lessons learned

Desirable

• Plan, manage and execute initiatives to improve the way we use our databases
• Understand and execute improvements to the application / database interfaces (like ORMs and DB Drivers)
• Collaborate with engineering teams to make architectural decisions and advise on data modeling
• Educate engineers on database reliability best practices
• Optimize database and query performance; reduce errors and latency
• Improve our load testing and capacity planning frameworks
• Monitor and support the use of our data layer
• Handle operational challenges through on-call rotation and provide production incident assistance
• Enhance our visibility into data layer workflows and workloads, help us maintain database SLOs
• Work on database infrastructure automation and self-service tools