Senior Data Reliability Engineer

About the role:

Forter is seeking a Senior Data Reliability Engineer with a focus on Database Solutions to join our Data Stores team. We are looking for a proactive detailoriented individual to be responsible for designing implementing and delivering database solutions that are the core of Forter products. If you are passionate about database solutions and want to contribute to a dynamic and innovative team we would love to hear from you.

About the team:

As the Data Stores team we are responsible for implementing and delivering database solutions that handle and store petabytes of data. Our focus is on scalability low latency high throughput and geodistributed database systems ingesting terabytes of data every day. We provide seamless reliable and scalable database solutions which are key components for Forters Machine Learning Models that deliver highly accurate realtime risk decisions to protect our customers from fraud. Continually adapting to the evolving landscape and trends in databases we implement new database offerings to ensure Forters innovative solutions stay ahead in the market.

Why should you join us

As a member of the data stores team you will work alongside highly technical software engineers shaping the way Forter stores vast amounts of data. You will be entrusted with the designing implementation and delivery of database solutions that are the right fit for the requirements. Your unique perspective and experience will bring innovative ideas to the team and help us deliver long term database solutions.

What youll be doing:

• Design implement and maintain scalable reliable and efficient database solutions.
• Lead and mentor engineers to ensure the seamless operation of our database systems.
• Investigate and implement performance and cost optimizations for our database solutions.
• Create or introduce tooling and processes to support the operational aspects required for maintaining large database solutions.
• Contribute to the continual improvement of our database infrastructure.
• Stay updated with the latest trends and technologies for databases and implement new database offerings as needed.
• Participate in oncall rotations to ensure the availability and performance of our database systems.

Who are you

• 5 years of experience as a data Infrastructure or backendoriented software engineer.
• Proven experience in designing and maintaining largescale database solutions.
• Strong knowledge of database principles distributed systems and database management.
• Experience withboth Relational(e.g: MySQL Postgres or MariaDB) and NoSQL databases (e.g: Aerospike Cassandra ScyllaDB DynamoDB ElasticSearch)
• Experience with AWS Infrastructure and database products.
• Strong linux troubleshooting experience.
• Proficiency in Bash Python or Go.
• Experience with configuration management (chef ansible terraform or cloud formation)
• Excellent problemsolving skills and attention to detail.
• Strong communication skills.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience with OLAP databases (e.g: Druid Pinot Clickhouse)
• Experience with Kubernetes

About us:

Digital commerce is built on trust. At every point along the eCommerce journey businesses must make a critical decision: Can I trust this customer Answering this simple question accurately and instantly is powerfulit can accelerate revenue growth and strengthen a companys connection with its customers. How do we do it Forter was founded on the insight that its not about what is being purchased nor where but who is behind the interaction.

The Forter Decision Engine finds patterns across more than one billion identities in our dataset. We isolate fraudsters and protect customersensuring everyone gets the experience they deserve. Given that trust is central to how we operate Forter is very much driven by a defined set of values. We attract remarkable talent and have retention and engagement levels that are well above benchmarks. Were meticulous about strengthening our culture as we grow and ensuring this is an environment where people can have outsized impact.

Trust is backed by data Forter is a recipient of over 10 workplace and innovation awards including:

• Great Place to Work Certification2024
• Fortunes Best Workplaces in NYCand 2024
• Forbes Cloud 100and 2024
• #3 on Fast Companys list of Most Innovative Finance Companies 2022
• AntiFraud Solution of the Year at the Payments Awards 2024
• SAP Pinnacle Awards New Partner Application Award 2023
• Fintech Breakthrough Awards Best Fraud Prevention Platform 2023

Life as a Forterian:

We are a team of over 600 Forterians spread across 3 different continents. Since 2013 weve raised $525 million from investors such as Tiger Global Bessemer Sequoia Capital March Capital and Salesforce Ventures. Were on a mission to bring trust to global digital commerce so that companies like Adobe ASOS eBay Instacart Priceline and Nordstrom can block fraud drive revenue and improve customer experience.

At Forter we believe unique people create unique ideas and valuable experience comes in many forms. So even if your background doesnt match everything we have listed in the job description we still encourage you to apply and tell us why your skills and values could be an asset to us. By welcoming different perspectives we grow together as humans and as a company.

Forter is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer that will consider all qualified applicants regardless of race color religion gender sexual orientation marital status gender identity or expression national origin genetics age disability status protected veteran status or any other characteristic protected by applicable law.

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