Senior Database Administrator

Responsibilities

• Ensure the reliability, performance, and scalability of our database infrastructure.
• Work closely with application teams to ship solutions that integrate seamlessly with our database systems.
• Analyze solutions and implement best practices for supported datastores(Primarily MySQL , PostgreSQL).
• Develop and enforce best practices for database security, backup, and recovery.
• Work on the observability of relevant database metrics and make sure we reach our database objectives.
• Provide database expertise to engineering teams (for example through reviews of database migrations, queries and performance optimizations).
• Work with peers(DevOps, Application Engineers) to roll out changes to our production environment and help mitigate database-related production incidents.
• Work on automation of database infrastructure and help engineering succeed by providing self-service tools.
• OnCall support on rotation with the team.
• Support and debug database production issues across services and levels of the stack.
• Document every action so your learnings turn into repeatable actions and then into automation.
• Perform regular system monitoring, troubleshooting, and capacity planning to ensure scalability.
• Create and maintain documentation on database configurations, processes, and procedures.

Requirements

The Nice-to-Haves