Senior Cloud Database Engineer, The RealReal
$142.1-179.3k
Online marketplace for authentic, resale luxury goods
Job no longer available
Online marketplace for authentic, resale luxury goods
1001+ employees
Job no longer available
$142.1-179.3k
1001+ employees
Company mission
To extend the lifecycle of luxury.
Role
Who you are
- 6+ years experience building and maintaining highly available cloud based relational database infrastructure in AWS, specifically experience with RDS Aurora MySQL and RDS Aurora Postgres required
- Experience with Infrastructure as Code using Terraform or CloudFormation
- Experience with MySQL and Postgres transactional management, indexing strategies & maintenance, backup & recovery models, and SQL query performance tuning
- Experience with database security to ensure data / databases are fully secured and comply with corporate cybersecurity policy
- Experience with data privacy regulations and how it pertains to maintaining data within our core database infrastructure
- Understanding and knowledge with respect to SOX compliance requirements and how it pertains to databases
- Understanding of data modeling and application of modeling techniques to ensure development & implementation efforts meet integration and performance expectations
- Expert in automating repeatable processes using script languages such as Bash or other preferred languages
- Experience developing and maintaining non-production database environments to include automation and self-service refresh processes, such as AWS DMS
- Experience working with Data Engineering and Data Science teams to support data pipelines, such as GCP DataStream
- Knowledge of the software development lifecycle, experience using SDLC-style development in automation and doing code reviews
- Experience with ORMs such as ActiveRecord or Ecto
- Use of git and Github workflows and knowledgeable about GitOps
- Experience working with a remote-first team using tools such as Slack and the Google Workspace
- Bonus knowledge: Kubernetes, Ruby on Rails, Elixir, Kafka, OpenSearch, DynamoDB, ElastiCache Redis
What the job involves
- As a Sr. Cloud Database Engineer, you will be exposed to the latest technology, a data-driven culture, while immersed in a friendly, helpful engineering organization
- As a member of a high-impact devops team, you’ll be able to shape the evolution of our cloud data tier and represent our team to the rest of the organization
- You will help lead the administration and operation of our relational cloud-based databases that underpin The RealReal platform
- Major projects may include database migrations and upgrades, high-availability implementations, metrics and observability improvements, performance tuning, and more
- Bring your thorough, practiced understanding of databases to help shape The RealReal’s production database infrastructure and Technology culture
- Design, build, and evolve our database infrastructure across production and non-production environments, strategically employing automation where possible
- Design, build and evolve our code pipelines, specifically around data migrations, designing and building automation in order to enable agile software development, using self-service where possible
- Collaborate efficiently and effectively with Engineers from various Technology teams (Security, DataScience, Application, IT) on complex problems involving functionality, scaling, and performance
- Build and deliver training and best practices to Technology teams to improve the overall quality of database queries and performance
- Drive ad-hoc troubleshooting teams towards solutions during emergency production incidents
- Collaborate with Security and Engineering teams to ensure data privacy standards are met based on the data we are maintaining, especially with respect to GDPR, CCPA, and other pertinent data privacy requirements as set forth by Security
- Quickly absorb context and knowledge while ramping up and using that to build and bolster related documentation. Turning obscure business knowledge into well-known and understood collective knowledge
- Keep a strong level of quality and velocity in your work, while collaborating and reporting when appropriate
- Exercise and promote security best practices with respect to database management
- Participate in an on-call rotation on a regular basis and respond to incidents reliably and professionally. Lead technical troubleshooting if necessary
Our take
The founder and CEO of The RealReal began the company in her kitchen, traveling via van to customers at their homes to deliver goods. Fast forward several years and The RealReal has more than 27 million shoppers, 19 retail locations, and has successfully IPO'ed after achieving unicorn status.
The RealReal is an online marketplace for second-hand luxury goods including high-end fashion, jewellery, watches, and fine art, all verified by in-house experts as part of the company’s robust authentication infrastructure. With a focus inspired by the circular economy, it also helps both buyers and consignors to extend products' lifespan, bringing sustainability to the fashion industry.
The company has sought to boost its activities through strategic moves like a partnership with Gucci, which is focusing on sustainability as it incentivises its customers to buy authenticated secondhand goods via The RealReal. Also, there have been forward-thinking approaches to customer acquisition and retention such as AI pricing and fake finding. Regardless, as a primarily retail-based company, The RealReal was affected by inflation in 2023 and made a 7% cut to its workforce to reduce operational costs in the first quarter. 2024 Q1 also showed the company to report a loss with an optimistic hope for growth in the following quarters.
Kirsty
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
-10% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 9 rounds)
Mar 2019
$70m
SERIES H
Jul 2018
$115m
SERIES G
Total funding: $358m
Company benefits
- Stock awards for all positions!
- Top tier medical, dental and vision
- Company sponsored access to One Medical
- Generous Paid Time Off
- 401(k) plan with company matching
- Company paid insurance plans for LIFE, AD&D
- Option for Short/Long Term Disability, Hospital Indemnity and Pet Insurance
- Other perks include: Travel Assistance, Legal Assistance, Employee Assistance Program, Commuter and Parking Flexible Spending Account
Company HQ
Telegraph Hill, San Francisco, CA
Leadership
Julie Wainwright
(Boardmember)Having studied at Purdue University, Julie started her career as a Brand Assistant at Clorox, before several CEO and Vice Presidential roles. In February 2011, she combined her commercial experience with a passion for sustainability to found The RealReal.
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