Staff Database Reliability Engineer

Experience: 8 to 15 yearsJob DescriptionWhat you will be working on:As a Database Reliability Engineer, you will have ownership of all technical aspects of our data services tier from the ground up. As a team, we are also particularly committed to two Engineering mantras: "Always On" and "No Mysteries". Reporting to the Manager of Site Reliability Engineering, you will partner with our core product engineers, performance engineers, site reliability engineers, and growing DBRE team, working on scaling, securing, and tuning our infrastructure be it self managed MySQL, RDS Aurora PostgreSQL/MySQL or CloudSQL. Additionally, you will play a key role as we evolve our architecture to meet the demands of our enormous growth and the hundreds of millions of users who rely on us to provide uninterrupted access to business-critical enterprise and consumer applications.Ensure effective performance and 24X7 availability of the production database tier.Design, automate and document operational processes, tasks, and configuration management.Coordinate efforts towards performance tuning, scaling and benchmarking the data services infrastructure.Contribute to automation amongst other things using ansible plays, configuration management using chef and infrastructure as code using terraform.What do you bring:First and foremost a positive team playing attitude - we are a team and we support each other so we can provide the best service for our customers.Extensive experience managing MySQL 5.7/8, PostgreSQL 11-15 at scale in a cloud environment as well as RDS Aurora MySQL/PostgreSQL and or CloudSQLProficient in a Linux environment, including Linux internals and tuningProficiency with terraform, chef, ansibleProficient writing Go/Python/Ruby/ShellExperience working with AWS (EC2 / EBS / S3 / RDS) or equivalent PRB