The Bridge Engineering team at Instructure is looking for a DBA to help us grow our product, scale our database systems and empower our feature teams.Bridge is a tool that helps people find their place at work, form meaningful relationships with peers and managers, and forge a path towards growth. We’re helping our customers create work cultures people love.What we look for:

• • A database expertwho can help us manage, structure and maintain production databases at scale.
  • A problem solverwho asks questions to get at the core issue that the team is grappling with before deciding on a solution.
  • A pragmatistwho knows how to make trade offs to solve challenges while building an architecture that scales for the future.
  • A systematic thinkerwho can understand how the larger system operates and knows when to take a step back and consider alternative approaches.
  • A team playerwho loves teaching and learning from others.
  • A technologyenthusiast who is familiar with and interested in developing a deep set of skills and tools to solve a variety of different problems.

What You’ll Be Doing

• • Managing and tuning production databases for multiple services and database clusters
  • Migrating legacy database systems to managed, cloud-based solutions
  • Responding to data-related incidents and contributing to a continuous improvement culture
  • Helping to improve data policies and standards

What You’ll Need to Know

• • How to run production data systems at scale
  • Deep expertise of PostgreSQL
  • How to optimize database usage and architecture for scale and resilience 
  • Knowledge of cloud-based solutions (AWS, Azure, Google Cloud)
  • System observability through monitoring and alerting
  • How to work with a globally distributed team in multiple time zones
  • How to work with Terraform or another means of storing configuration as code