Staff Platform Database Reliability Engineer

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🌐 Canada, United States – Remote

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⏰ Full Time

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⛑ DevOps & Site Reliability Engineer (SRE)

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📋 Description

• Provide strategic leadership across multiple domains and collaborate with product, operations, infrastructure, and platform engineering teams • Foster innovation, continuous improvement, and collaboration within the data systems team • Advocate for strategic directions that reduce complexity and technology stack footprint • Deploy and operate databases at scale in decentralized cloud, Kubernetes, external, and bare-metal environments • Architect relational data structures for performance, scale, and continuity • Evaluate emerging technologies and make adoption recommendations • Ensure operational processes guarantee database stability and scalability • Develop database administration, monitoring, maintenance, testing, and production release best practices • Implement automation-first end-to-end delivery procedures • Apply security and IAM practices, audits, and traceability • Collaborate with developers, system administrators, and data scientists to optimize database performance and functionality • Present roadmaps during quarterly planning and align with broader technology objectives • Lead problem identification, troubleshooting, resolution, retrospectives, and root-cause analysis to improve reliability and minimize downtime

🎯 Requirements

• 7+ years of proven experience as a Database Reliability Engineer, Database Administrator, general SRE with a slant to data systems, or a similar role • In-depth expertise of databases, with a focus on MySQL, MariaDB, Galera, PostgreSQL, Kafka, Aerospike, Redis, StarRocks, Vertica • Experience deploying and operating databases at scale in containerized (Kubernetes) and bare metal environments • Working knowledge of languages like Python, Bash/Shell, Kotlin, Java and/or Golang • Good understanding of automation tools like Ansible, Terraform, and CI/CD tools such as Helm, GitLab workflows, and ArgoCD • Good understanding of database change management systems like Liquibase, Flywheel, or Alembic • Good understanding of observability tools like Loki, Grafana, Prometheus, etc. • Basic understanding of streaming and big data technologies like Kafka, Spark, Flink, Hadoop, Presto/Trino, or Redis • Demonstrated leadership, mentoring, and collaboration skills • Excellent problem-solving and troubleshooting abilities for globally distributed, low-latency infrastructure • Effective communication skills for technical and non-technical audiences

🏖️ Benefits

• Comprehensive health, dental, and vision plans for you and your dependents • Paid time off, health days, and personal obligation days plus flexible work schedules • Competitive retirement matching plans • Equity packages • Generous parental leave available to birthing, non-birthing, and adoptive parents • Annual well-being allowance plus fitness discounts and group wellness activities • Commuter benefits and discounts, where available • Employee assistance program • Mental health first aid program that provides an in-the-moment point of contact and reassurance • One day of volunteer time off per year and a donation-matching program • Monthly town halls and regular community-led team events • Multiple resources and programming to support continuous learning • A workplace that supports a diverse, equitable, and inclusive environment

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