Database Reliability Engineer, Justworks
$115-155k
2+ days a week in office
Business operations platform
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Business operations platform
1001+ employees
Be an early applicant
$115-155k
2+ days a week in office
1001+ employees
Company mission
Justworks' mission is to help entrepreneurs and businesses grow with confidence.
Role
Who you are
- Good judgement - the exercise of critical thinking, analyzing and assessing problems and implications, identifying patterns, making connections of underlying issues, understanding risks and developing mitigation strategies, and taking ownership of the outcome
- Resourcefulness - taking a can-do approach, even in the face of obstacles and constraints by assessing what’s in front of you and effectively and efficiently optimizing what you have, whether it's working on something new or thinking about how to do something better
- Teamwork and communication - putting our collective best together through documentation, collaboration, relationship-building, listening, empathy, recruiting, and evangelism
- Influence and leadership - fostering a community of knowledge-sharing, collaboration, mentorship, and forward-thinking
- Skills and knowledge - the capacity to actively learn and apply specific domain knowledge, know-how, and best practices to continually enhance and improve
- Minimum 5 years of professional hands on experience with database systems, in particular MySQL and PostgreSQL
- Experience supporting high-availability DB clusters, including replication/sharding, and zero-downtime migrations
- Strong communication skills with the ability to grasp and explain complex concepts to both technical and non-technical people
- Self-motivated and self-accountable for delivery and adherence to standards and delivery timelines
- Familiarity with working on Cloud Platforms such as Amazon Web Services
- Familiarity with infrastructure automation tools (Puppet, Ansible, Terraform)
- Highly fluent in SQL and Python, with firm understanding of different language paradigms
- Experience with Ruby/Rails or Golang is a plus
- Have solid knowledge of the internals of MySQL
- Have strong programming skills
- Strong experience with Linux systems and shell scripting
- Knowledge of caching technologies (e.g. memcached, redis) is a plus
- Experience with governing data security and compliance preferred
What the job involves
- You enjoy working with databases and will lead the managing and scaling of Justwork’s datastores in order for data to be accessed in a performant, reliable and safe manner
- In addition to keeping our database systems running smoothly 24/7/365, you will work on improving the tooling, orchestration, monitoring surrounding our datastores as well as developing a strategy for future growth
- You will bring your expertise to the SRE and Infrastructure teams as well as the rest of our engineering teams
- Define and implement a strategy for scaling our systems and plan for growth by delivering production solutions that scale, identifying automation points, and proactively proposing ideas on how to improve efficiency
- Address database-related related problems; pursue short and long term problem resolution, drive root cause analysis (RCA) and risk management processes
- Review and tune databases for optimal system performance including modifying parameters to improve throughput and effectively utilize system resources
- Participate in after-hours support and may be required to perform production releases or maintenance operations during non-peak hours
- Work with infrastructure engineers to define and execute backup and restore testing, as a part of disaster recovery plan
- Work closely with all operational groups to ensure SOX compliance
- Work on the database reliability and performance of our datastores
- Improve our observability, alerting and monitoring
- Help mitigate database related incidents
- Provide support and help debug database issues
Our take
Justworks operates in an increasingly crowded space of all-in-one business operation suites, that include tools like human resources, payroll, employee management, benefits, and others that businesses critically need to operate as they scale.
Globally, human resource management has become an extremely fertile field, worth over $20 billion annually and predicted to grow to over $50 billion annually by 2030 - creating great opportunity for Justworks to continue to grow. The company is regarded as a market leader, but does see competition in the shape of Paychex Flex, Rippling, Paylocity, and TriNet, among others.
Solutions delivered by Justworks have proven to be extremely popular with SMEs, and this has not gone unnoticed by investors, with the company picking up exceptional amounts of funding. Justworks is known to have sights on going public, though action towards this end has been delayed until global mass-market conditions have settled from a period of volatility. However, the company's acquisition of
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Insights
24% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 7 rounds)
Nov 2023
$16.9m
LATE VC
Jan 2020
$50m
SERIES E
Total funding: $159.9m
Company benefits
- Paid volunteer work.
- Paid parental leave.
- Work from home opportunities.
- Medical, dental, and vision insurance, plus access to One Medical, Kindbody, and Teladoc.
- Premium access to Headspace, ClassPass stipends, and webinars to support your overall wellness on topics like nutrition, budgeting, mindfulness, and more.
- All Justworks offers include equity, and Justworkers can continue to earn more over time with promotions and tenure.
- Extensive learning & development opportunities through workshops, ExecOnline, Udemy, and BetterUp coaching.
- Engineering Apprenticeship program that supports internal movement and growth
Company values
- Camaraderie: As a growing company, we know how crucial teamwork, higher purpose, and a healthy dose of fun can be to success. Be an active listener, treat people respectfully, and have a strong desire to know and help others.
- Openness: We believe in radical transparency. This means being willing to share information, understand other perspectives, and consider new possibilities. Be curious, ask open questions, and be receptive to thoughts and feedback from others.
- Grit: They say when the going gets tough, the tough get going. We are a team of hardworking individuals with the courage to persevere. Be committed, be earnest, and dive in to get the job done well with a positive attitude.
- Integrity: We do the right thing. Be honest and forthright, have a strong moral compass, and strive to match your words with your actions while leading by example.
- Simplicity: We make things easy for everyone to understand and do. Be innovative, unafraid of streamlining processes, a clear and concise communicator, and don't overcomplicate solutions.
Company HQ
Fulton Ferry District, NY
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Leadership
Isaac Oates
(Executive Chair)Experience as a Senior Product Manager at Amazon before founding Adtuitive and serving as COO for a year. Left this position to spend 3 years as a VP at Etsy, before founding Justworks.
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