Sr Software Development Engineer

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About the Team

About the Role

You will be working with the latest versions of PostgreSQL database which is the main persistence store for our Ruby on Rails application. We are looking for a talented engineer to help us scale optimize and shard our database infrastructure in line with the significant growth our product area is currently seeing.

This role requires a person that :

• understands database performance and our current workloads

• has a good knowledge of a connection management and how system resources are used on a database server

• is familiar and can suggest related tooling (including monitoring solutions)

• Is capable of tuning and configuring PostgreSQL (ideally within AWS)

• predicting the required capacity and helping DevOps to provision it.

We are also interested to hear about:

• working with databases that cross-regions/datacenters

• working with teams that use ORMs (AR in rails) or other application framework

About You

• 5 years experience working with PostgreSQL planning and provisioning database instances

• You have worked with database deployments in public clouds (preferably AWS and their RDS offering)

• You propose pragmatic solutions to painful problems

• You find opportunities to teach others

• You are a team player you motivate your teammates

• You are responsible helpful and kind.

• You seek innovative solutions to problems.

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