Database Reliability Engineer, LaunchDarkly
$147-204k
Salary dependent on location. + RSUs
Feature management for software teams
Job no longer available
Feature management for software teams
501-1000 employees
Job no longer available
$147-204k
Salary dependent on location. + RSUs
501-1000 employees
Company mission
To empower all teams to deliver and control their software.
Role
Who you are
- Extensive experience with CockroachDB administration, operations, and performance tuning
- Proficiency in SQL and database schema design, with a strong understanding of distributed database systems
- Familiarity with cloud services (AWS, GCP, Azure), containerization (Docker, Kubernetes), and infrastructure as code (Terraform)
- Extensive observability expertise with a major platform, ideally Datadog
- Demonstrated ability to work in a fast-paced, collaborative environment, with excellent problem-solving and communication skills
What the job involves
- LaunchDarkly is seeking an experienced Database Reliability Engineer specializing in CockroachDB to join our growing Service Reliability team
- This role will be key in hardening, scaling, and optimizing our CockroachDB instances to ensure world-class performance and reliability as we grow
- As part of this team, you will enable developers to deliver services on top of robust database infrastructure, ensuring seamless scalability and uninterrupted service to our customers and end-users
- LaunchDarkly is a mission-critical service to thousands of brands, and your role as Database Reliability Engineer will help us continue to earn their trust
- Manage and maintain CockroachDB clusters across multiple environments with high availability and cost efficiency
- Implement and oversee backup, restore, and DR procedures
- Monitor database performance, adjusting configuration and resources to meet evolving needs
- Conduct regular performance analysis and tuning of CockroachDB instances to ensure health and efficiency
- Collaborate with development teams to implement indexing strategies, improve schema design, and optimize application queries
- Engineer database solutions for scalability, employing best practices in clustering, partitioning, and replication
- Address and resolve database-related issues, ensuring minimal downtime and impact on users
- Participate in on-call rotations, providing front-line support and escalation for critical database incidents
- Work closely with engineering peers, security, and GRC teams to align database strategies with organizational goals
- Own database-related incidents including root cause analysis, observing trends, and diagnosing complex production issues
- Contribute to the development and refinement of database standards, guidelines, and procedures
- Own the full developer experience around the database, including operational stability, SQL tuning, capacity planning, consultation, education, and the client driver and code abstractions
- Mentor junior team members, fostering a culture of learning and continuous improvement
Our take
Feature flags are a powerful software development tool, allowing teams to modify system behavior without changing code, therefore minimizing risk. If a business has a new feature they want to test, they can then roll it out to a small set of users before letting it go live. These companies can, for example, get quick feedback on the new feature and fix any bugs, or roll back any changes.
LaunchDarkly allows companies to run tests like this by activating the new code for only a small set of users prior to launch. Typically running these tests requires lots of developer time - a daunting and expensive prospect for most rapidly growing businesses - and can risk disruption to the user experience if testing takes place on the live product.
Demonstrating its value to businesses, the platform is used by the likes of IBM, Intuit and Atlassian. Recently it has seemed to focus on further scaling its growth as it develops towards being a leading business in the feature management space.
Freddie
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
0% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 6 rounds)
Aug 2021
$200m
SERIES D
Jan 2020
$54m
LATE VC
Total funding: $330.3m
Company benefits
- Full Vision
- Full Dental
- Full Medical
- Flexible Schedule
- Healthy Lunches & Snacks
- Conference & Meetup Access
- Education Stipend
- Personalized Work Station
- Close to Public Transportation
- Bike Parking
- Team Activities
- Unlimited paid time off policy
- Work from home opportunities
- Health insurance
Company HQ
Lakeside, Oakland, CA
Leadership
Edith Harbaugh
(Co-founder, Executive Chair & CEO)Worked as a Product Manager at Vignette, Monster Worldwide, and PlantSense. Previously Product Director at TripIt.
John Kodumal
(Co-founder & CTO)Prior to co-founding LaunchDarkly was Software Development Manager at Atlassian and Bytecode Anaylsis Architect for Coverity.
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