Senior Database Engineer
Senior Database Engineer
Posted on :
26-04-2025
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Monthly Salary
$ 180000 - 230000
Vacancy
1 Vacancy
Posted on :
26-04-2025
Job Description
Seeking an experienced individual to take a lead role in managing a portfolio of over 500 Zoox databases. Working closely with developers and business partners you will drive the delivery of optimized and scalable database solutions. Your responsibilities will include identifying areas for improvement in our existing database implementation and proactively collaborating with software partners to address them. Additionally you will play a pivotal role in crossfunctional collaboration with teams including data science software development security and compliance influencing key databaserelated decisions and promoting best practices.
In this role you will:
- Lead database architecture and design efforts to meet business requirements
- Develop and maintain database code with a focus on performance and scalability
- Identify and resolve performance bottlenecks through optimization and tuning
- Administer and secure database servers ensuring data integrity and availability
- Participate in database oncall support
- Collaborate with crossfunctional teams to understand and address database needs
- Document database designs configurations and processes thoroughly
- Stay current with emerging database technologies and best practices
- Investigate and resolve databaserelated incidents and outages promptly
- Implement proactive monitoring and alerting to detect and mitigate issues
- Propose and implement innovative solutions to improve database performance and reliability
Qualifications:
- Proficiency in AWS Services: EC2 RDS S3 Lambda IAM CloudFormation CloudWatch.
- Expertise in PostgreSQL and MySQL: Database architecture administration performance tuning replication.
- Knowledge of Major Database Technologies: Oracle PostgresMysqlRedshift.
- Performance Optimization and Tuning: Query optimization indexing strategies hardware optimization.
- Shell Scripting: Bash scripting for system administration deployments workflows.
- Database Design and Modeling: Normalization denormalization efficient schema design.
- ProblemSolving and Troubleshooting Skills: Analytical diagnosing complex issues optimizing system performance.
Bonus Qualifications:
- Strong Programming Skills in Python: Data manipulation analysis automation.
- Infrastructure as Code (IaC): TerraformSalt
- DevOps Practices: CI/CD Agile/Scrum Git for version control.
- Data Integration and ETL: Integrating data from multiple sources ETL processes data warehousing.
Compensation
There are three major components to compensation for this position: pay Amazon Restricted Stock Units (RSUs) and Zoox Stock Appreciation Rights. The pay range for this position is $180000 to $230000. A signon bonus may be offered as part of the compensation package. Compensation will vary based on geographic location and level. Leveling as well as positioning within a level is determined by a range of factors including but not limited to a candidates relevant years of experience domain knowledge and interview performance. The pay range listed in this posting is representative of the range of levels Zoox is considering for this position.
Zoox also offers a comprehensive package of benefits including paid time off (e.g. sick leave vacation bereavement) unpaid time off Zoox Stock Appreciation Rights Amazon RSUs health insurance longterm care insurance longterm and shortterm disability insurance and life insurance.
Required Experience:
Senior IC
Employment Type
Full-Time
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