Database Architect

Software Engineer DBA

Contract to hire

Mountain View, CA (Open to remote, PST timings)

This position pays from $70/hr - $85/hr on W2

Job Summary

Our team is experiencing great growth and we are in need of adding a Software Engineer (Developer Experience) to help with the new initiatives. This position is heavily utilizing Terraform and Kubernetes, you will be focused on working with newer technologies and solving problems related to Infrastructure-as-Code, CI, and CD. This position will be more Database focused.

Job Responsibilities

• Contribute to HA Open-Source Database solutions utilizing MariaDB, Postgres, and TiDB
• Revisit current architecture and make recommendations for any improvements or gaps in the designs.
• Must understand importance of protecting data and ensure even for non-production environments to make sure the data is properly backed up and protected
• Help with any slow queries or other optimizations that can increase the performance of our databases.
• Be open to expanding into other areas such as Redis or FoundationDB
• Willingness to work with team to work on Infrastructure as code principles to automate all activities
• Must be willing to handle on call responsibilities
• Still work with the team to try to find solutions that we can best support based on our existing infrastructure as code technologies
• Cannot rely strictly on cloud-based DB solutions

Skills and Competencies

• Experience running MariaDB HA workloads
• Experience with running Postgres in HA setting
• Experience with being able to recover from issues such as replication failures
• Understanding of CI/CD pipeline concepts
• Developer experience with Golang and python or similar programming languages
• Some experience with Terraform, Kubernetes, and Infrastructure as Code methodologies
• Be comfortable in a Linux Based environment (rocky/centos/rhel and ubuntu)
• Familiar with configuration management tools (ansible preferred)
• Able to communicate effectively with members of the team in different time zones
• Ability to analyze complex problems and come up with effective solutions in a cloud
• context.
• Able to communicate effectively with members of the team in different time zones and
• cross-functionals teams including DevOps, architects, and business stakeholders.
• Basic project management skills to manage tasks, timelines, and priorities effectively.
• The ability to analyze data and metrics to make data-driven decisions for optimizing
• cloud resources and performance.
• Ownership -Take ownership of projects, ensuring excellence in execution and accountability
• for results. Foster a sense of responsibility and pride in delivering high-quality work
• Innovation - Drive innovation by proposing and implementing creative solutions to
• challenges. Stay abreast of industry trends and technologies, bringing fresh ideas to the
• table
• Customer focus - Understand and prioritize customer needs, striving to exceed expectations
• in every interaction. Collaborate with cross-functional teams to ensure the delivery of
• customer-centric solutions
• Teamwork - Embrace a collaborative and inclusive approach, working seamlessly with
• colleagues to achieve common goals