Staff Database Engineer, Flex

• A minimum 6 years of experience with Databases operation/optimization is required
• You have strong computer science fundamentals
• You have 6 years of hands-on experience in database engineering (SQL and NoSQL)
• You have good understanding of SQL engine internals to help design and tune databases to get the optimal performance
• You have experience implementing and operating databases related components in distributed services environments at scale
• You have experience in cloud databases such as AWS Aurora, DynamoDB
• You have great communication skills and are comfortable working with a distributed team

Desirable

• Flex is looking for a Staff Database Engineer who will be responsible for driving various initiatives to ensure our database is reliable, scalable and optimal
• In this role, you will be part of the core platform team, responsible to maintain our SQL and NoSQL databases and build any database related component/strategy, such as intelligent routing, cross-service transactions, performance turning etc
• You will work closely with backend engineers and infrastructure team to solve our most pressing platform problems about cost-saving and supporting 10x growth.The ideal candidate will be comfortable leading scoping, design, prioritization, and implementation and can drive their production rollouts to completion with minimum oversight