Senior Site Reliability Engineer - Data REMOTE
Senior Site Reliability Engineer - Data REMOTE
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Job Description
The Discogs Platform team is focused on several objectives: building and supporting performant costeffective reliable infrastructure; developer experience tooling and mentorship; and creating golden paths for organizationwide standards and velocity. As a key member of the Platform team the Senior Site Reliability Engineer Data will be working closely with other Discogs engineering squads to develop and optimize scalable wellplanned relational database architectures drive best practices and stability for our use of Kafka and change data capture and contribute to the Platform teams operations.
Location
This is a remote position. Open to candidates located in OR WA CA CO TX IL
Compensation
Starting Base Salary Range: $130000 $140000 yearly
Who We Are
We are dedicated to supporting a global community of music fans and collectors who share the value culture connection and joy of record collecting. Fostering the exchange of knowledge records and curation we help people help each other deepen their relationship with music. Leveraging the power of community we are committed to enabling people to explore artists and their recorded works through the worlds definitive music discography stay informed with record collection and sales history data get organized with specialized collection management tools and stay connected to a global community of fellow record collectors and sellers. Providing this essential set of resources tools and access we aim to unleash boundless opportunities for people to dig into the depths of their musical interests build and fortify their record collections cultivate and bridge communities and elevate their connection to music and record collecting.
What Youll Accomplish
Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
- Stewarding Discogs data stores as a key subject matter expert
- Leading efforts on the reliability and design patterns of our Kafka and Kafka Connect implementations
- Establishing data contracts and clear communication standards between CDC producers and consumers
- Working closely with engineering squads to refactor and rearchitect MySQL database schema and indexing for longterm scalability performance and cost effectiveness
- Mentoring engineering squads on Platform best practices for MySQL Kafka and other software development lifecycle areas
- Writing documentation and runbooks that contribute to the engineering organizations knowledge base
- Working in a containerized orchestrated environment
- Contributing to the Platform teams disciplines of site reliability and operations supporting both our squads and Platforms central infrastructure
- Participating in oncall rotation responding to incidents and troubleshooting data and other operations issues
Requirements
What Youll Contribute
Minimum Education and Experience
- A Bachelors Degree in Computer Science or similar area of focus or equivalent relevant work experience.
- 5 years of experience working with Kafka and relational database management systems (RDBMS).
- 6 years experience in Ops DevOps Site Reliability Platform or other systems roles.
Required Skills & Abilities:
- Relational database schema design query performance optimization administration (MySQL Percona Server AWS RDS)
- Kafka: Cluster administration (Strimzi) Kafka Connect (Debezium JDBC)
- CI/CD (GitHub Actions)
- GitOps (ArgoCD)
- Kubernetes (EKS Kustomize Karpenter administration application manifests)
- AWS and cloud development (VPC EKS RDS S3
- Observability (Datadog Sentry)
- Scripting (Shell Python)
- Track record of collaboration and mentorship
- Excellent written communication and documentation skills
- Continuous learning
- Ownership and proactive approach to solving large problems
Preferred:
- Infrastructureascode (Terraform)
- Elasticsearch (ECK administration scaling performance)
- Python (SQLAlchemy FastAPI)
- GraphQL (schema design Apollo federation)
- REST API
- Hashicorp Vault
- Redis
- Memcached
- NoSQL Database
- Data Lake/Warehouse
- Data Governance
- Data Security
The Platform team covers a wide range of technical topics and wed love to hear about your skills beyond this list!
Benefits
What We Provide
- Competitive compensation: salary plus performancerelated bonus program
- 401(k) with employer match
- 100 companypaid medical and dental insurance benefits for you and your dependents
- 4 weeks paid vacation increasing based on tenure
- 18 weeks paid leave for birth moms
- 8 weeks paid parental leave including for adoption
- Monthly wellness allowance
- Annual professional and personal development allowance
- Work from home office setup and expense allowances
- Flexible work location opportunities
- Employer matching toward charitable contributions
What We Believe In
Were building a world idealized for record collectors driven by community and fueled by a shared passion for music. Through culture information and innovation we strive to develop a complete ecosystem of resources to empower music lovers and entrepreneurs everywhere to engage more deeply in the joys and possibilities of record collecting. We foster a collaborative community dedicated to preserving the recording industrys past present and unfolding future by cataloging the worlds complete interconnected music discography. Leveraging the power of this dynamic knowledge base we aim to innovate integrated technologies to empower music fans everywhere to embark on a boundless journey of music discovery and record collecting. We envision this to be the complete collecting journey.
Discogs is an Equal Opportunity Employer.
Applicants needing accommodation to apply should contact us at
Discogs does not promote job openings through text messaging. If you receive a text message claiming to offer a position at our company please disregard it as fraudulent. For a list of our actively open positions and to apply please visit the official Careers page on our website: you apply for this role you will be required to upload a resume cover letter and fill out a few questions regarding your application. Once submitted our hiring team will review your application and contact you if you are selected for an interview. Whether you are successful or not we will store your application and data in our system for a maximum period of one year from the application date in case another role becomes available that you are suitable for. If you have any questions or concerns about us storing this data and/or the period of time please contact us at and we will respond to you within 30 days.
Required Experience:
Senior IC
Employment Type
Full-Time
