Senior Database Reliability Engineer

April 26

Mercury

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Banking for startups: mercury.com

201 - 500

Description

• Guide product engineers towards structures and practices that maximize performance, efficiency, and reliability • Pair with product engineers on query performance improvements • Automate processes and distribute knowledge • Drive database upgrades and migrations • Identify long-term architecture goals and execute incremental steps to achieve them • Collect and present database metrics • Educate product engineers on PostgreSQL and relevant topics • Make code and infrastructure changes to improve application interaction with the database

Requirements

• 5 years of experience administering PostgreSQL in medium-to-large organizations • Experience with Amazon RDS, Google Cloud SQL, Azure Database, or similar managed offerings • 1 year of experience using Infrastructure-as-Code tooling: Terraform is preferred • Deep query optimization experience with PostgreSQL • Knowledge of combining PostgreSQL with other data systems • Comfortable with a scripting language such as Python • Open to learning Haskell/Persistent/Esqueleto • Willingness to learn and solve new problems

Benefits

• Base salary • Equity (stock options) • Benefits