Senior Database Engineer, Payscale
$139.8-174.7k
Offers bonus and 10% CBP
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Compensation software & data
501-1000 employees
Be an early applicant
$139.8-174.7k
Offers bonus and 10% CBP
501-1000 employees
Company mission
To help organizations transform pay decisions from an uncertain compromise to a confident commitment.
Role
Who you are
- Minimum of 7+ years of experience in administering MySQL, MariaDB, and PostgreSQL
- Support and encourage data engineering practices supporting a multi-source data ecosystem
- Extensive knowledge of Pgpool-II for query load balancing, failover management, and connection routing between primary and standby nodes
- Automate database deployment and maintenance tasks using shell scripts and infrastructure automation tools
- Develop operational runbooks for replication setup, failover recovery and pooler troubleshooting
- Intrinsic self-starter and problem solver
- Experience with performance tuning and a broad knowledge base of indexing strategies, In-Memory OLTP technologies, and best practice SQL standards
- Hands on experience with replication, performance tuning and maintenance plans
- Hands on experience building processes for OLTP and OLAP processing
- Ability to collaborate with SQL developers and solve problems
- Experience working in a microservice architecture with separate data sources per microservice
- Familiarity with one or more industry standard source control solutions (Git preferred - experience with DACPAC a plus)
- Agile experience
- Excellent communication skills
- Desire to work in a fast paced, evolving, growing, and dynamic environment
- Curiosity to explore innovative ideas and passion to make them happen
- Bachelors in computer science, Engineering, Information Technology, other relevant degree, or comparable work experience
Desirable
- Experience with designing and implementing large scale database systems at enterprise and/or Internet scale
- Experience designing and building Distributed Database ecosystems
- Understanding of data analytics and reporting solution concepts and strategies
- Experience with SQL Server 2012 and above
- Experience with PostgreSQL v9 and above
- Understanding and experience with NoSQL databases
- Understanding of Event Streaming Platforms such as Apache Kafka
- Experience with administration and configuration of sharded, multi-tenant databases
- Experience with Database Encryption Strategies (Encryption per Client, PIP encryption)
- Experience with scaling databases on Cloud platforms (preferably Azure)
- AWS/Azure/Azure SQL
- Elasticsearch
- Data visualization and analytic software tools such as Tableau
What the job involves
- The Senior Database Engineer will work directly with the database, software architecture, development, and product teams to design and implement product, process solutions, and improve application performance and stability
- This role reports to our Manager, Database Engineering
- Collaborate with stakeholders from across the organization to set priorities and drive toward implementation
- Ensure database systems meet all requirements of performance, availability, scalability, quality, and security to produce world class products
- Delivering high-quality work-products; champion quality standards, performance, and scalability
- Research innovative technologies and stay ahead of the industry
- Design and implement resilient and performant database processes and solutions
- Develop custom stored procedures, views, or user-defined functions
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams
- Debug and tune/optimize SQL code either directly or indirectly from the application
- Support Tier2 development team with database requests as needed (including bug fixes, production data manipulation and feature testing)
- On-call duty may be required, responding to critical DB alerts, and escalating if needed
Our take
Although pay isn't always the main motivator when it comes to selecting a new job, compensation matters for a raft of reasons. All things being equal, talent that is underpaid will pass on an uncompetitive offer and become demotivated by lower-than-market pay, and the gender gap in salaries sees women earning up to 20% less than men in the same roles which is both unfair and bad for morale.
Payscale exists to provide a clear view of a company's overall offering while at the same time providing real-time data on the jobs market, allowing HR teams to adjust compensation and price jobs instantly and accurately in line with their industry's standards. It also gives jobseekers information on expected salaries for the positions they are interested in along with a range of career planning and negotiation tools.
This approach is sorely needed, as governments are beginning to legislate on pay transparency and jobseekers are increasingly expecting to know where they stand compared to the people they'll be working next to. Already counting The Washington Post, United Healthcare and the New York Times among its customers, Payscale has grown steadily through marketing and aggressive acquisitions, and is now very well placed to take advantage of the move to benefits transparency in the HR sector.
Kirsty
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
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Company
Funding (last 2 of 4 rounds)
Jul 2011
$7m
EARLY VC
Jul 2007
$10.3m
SERIES C
Total funding: $27.5m
Company benefits
- Flexible paid time off (PTO)
- Paid holidays and floating holidays
- Company-sponsored volunteer hours
- Complimentary days off based on meeting company goals
- Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision, covered up to 100% by Payscale
- Life and disability insurance, covered up to 100% by Payscale
- Employee assistance program
- Flexible spending account
- Infertility benefits
- Company matched and immediately vested 401k
- Paid development hours
- Learning and development opportunities
- Regular pportunities to meet with executive leadership
- Annual remote work stipend for wellness or home office equipment
- 16 weeks paid parental leave
Company HQ
Pioneer Square, Seattle, WA
Leadership
Chris Hays
(CEO)Chris joined Payscale in 2024 as CEO. Prior to that, they spent nearly 8 years at ZoomInfo as the President & COO. They also spent 7 years at Inside Sales Team as a VP of Operations, and 10 years at Avaya as a Finance Director.
Lexi Clarke
(CPO)Lexi initially joined Payscale in 2020 as a Director of People, since then they have held various roles, becoming CPO in 2023. They previously worked in HR roles at Convoy, Redfin, Boeing, and One Kings Lane.
Kate Peter
(CCO)Previously a Global VP of Customer Experience at Anaplan, and Global Head of Customer Success at Harvard Business Publishing. They also spent 4 years at Gainsight in various roles, including Head of Enterprise Customer Success.
Peh Keong Teh
(CPO)They have been at Symend since 2020, previously serving as President, CPO & CTO, now serving as an Executive Advisor. Previously they spent 3 years at Salesforce as a Senior VP of Marketing Cloud, 1 year at Oracle in product Management (Oracle Bare Metal Cloud), and 10 years at Microsoft in various roles, including Principal Group Program Manager (SQL Azure).
Philip Watson
(CFO)Previously the CFO at Paddle and a Portfolio Finance & Operations Director at Hg. They also spent over 7 years at ZoomInfo in various VP roles.
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