Senior Database Engineer

🕒 October 1

🇺🇸 United States – Remote

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

🔙 Backend Engineer

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Spreedly

WebsiteLinkedInAll Job Openings

51 - 200 employees

Founded 2013

💼 Consulting

📦 Logistics

💳 Fintech

💰 $75M Private Equity Round on 2019-11

Consulting • Logistics • Fintech

Spreedly is a payment orchestration platform that helps merchants, merchant aggregators, and fintech companies optimize and scale their payment operations. By providing access to a wide ecosystem of hundreds of gateways, PSPs, and fraud tools across multiple currencies, Spreedly allows businesses to manage complex payment infrastructures with ease. Their platform supports billions of global transactions, offering cross-industry intelligence to enhance transaction success rates. With a focus on flexible and secure payment solutions, Spreedly stores over a billion payment methods in a PCI-Level 1 compliant vault, minimizing regulatory burdens for its users.

📋 Description

• Improve database performance and reliability in the existing distributed database environment • Investigate performance bottlenecks and reliability risks using instrumentation, code review, and staging tests • Optimize slow queries, indexes, and database settings • Diagnose distributed-database issues including transaction contention, retries, hot ranges, and inefficient access patterns • Establish performance baselines • Advise engineering teams on schema migrations, access patterns, and configuration changes • Participate in design reviews covering schema design, primary keys, indexing, and transaction boundaries • Contribute database expertise to incident response and root-cause analysis • Develop safer migration procedures, documentation, and guidance • Own version upgrades, backup and recovery validation, cluster settings, and capacity planning • Improve database observability for latency, retries, contention, range health, and capacity • Partner with Cockroach Labs on the managed database environment • Collaborate with infrastructure, platform, and application engineers • Mentor engineers on database troubleshooting, performance, and distributed-database concepts • Serve as the go-to database expert on the Reliability team as a senior individual contributor with no direct reports

🎯 Requirements

• 5+ years of experience in a role where operating and optimizing production databases was your primary job • Deep, hands-on experience managing distributed databases, including performance and high-availability behavior • Hands-on experience managing relational databases supporting business-critical production systems • Track record of diagnosing database inefficiencies and delivering measurable improvements to queries, indexing, schema, or configuration • Strong SQL skills and fluency with execution plans, transaction management, and distributed SQL trade-offs • Ability to assess database-change risk and explain technical trade-offs clearly • Independent approach to investigating unfamiliar systems, prioritizing, and completing improvements • Considerate, collaborative working style • Production experience administering CockroachDB at meaningful transaction volumes • PostgreSQL administration experience • Experience operating a managed database service and working with vendor support and engineering teams • Experience with zero- or minimal-downtime schema migrations on large, high-traffic tables • Experience supporting payments, financial technology, or similarly availability-sensitive platforms • Experience with database capacity planning and cluster sizing, including multi-region topologies • Experience building operational tooling or checks in Python, Go, or similar languages • Familiarity with ORMs such as Rails ActiveRecord • Cloud experience on AWS or Azure • Database-focused cloud certifications are a plus • CockroachDB or PostgreSQL experience is not required if equivalent distributed database management depth is demonstrated • Must be currently legally authorized to work in the job location country and not require future sponsorship • Successful background and reference check required • Applicants must not reside in New York

🏖️ Benefits

• Competitive salary + Equity • Outstanding Medical and Dental benefits, including 100% employer-paid option • Company-paid Life and Disability insurance • Optional vision and supplemental insurance options, and various Flexible Spending Accounts (FSA) • Open Paid Time Off policy + 12 weeks of paid leave for new parents • Matching 401(k) plan (5% up to $5,000 yearly) • $1,000 annual professional development stipend • Monthly home working/digital lifestyle stipend, new MacBook, and one-time accessory reimbursement • Access to company-paid professional coaching service • Visits to HQ in Durham, North Carolina for remote employees