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Role Description

The Database Reliability Engineer (DBRE) is responsible for managing, building, maintaining, monitoring, and troubleshooting the cloud-based database infrastructure that our mission critical SaaS application runs on. The DBRE role is also responsible for improving processes via automation/coding to reduce toil. They will be liaising with engineering and SRE teams to aid in bringing new products to market that require database support.

• Work on observability of relevant database metrics and make sure desired database objectives are met.
• Work with DBA team to understand areas of toil. Implement automations/processes to help manage PCC's database systems at scale.
• Implement a data-driven approach to performance and availability improvements to stakeholder database systems.
• Provide database expertise to engineering and SRE teams (review of database migrations, queries, performance optimizations, standardize configurations and deployments of new database systems).
• Assist DBA team in performance troubleshooting and root cause analysis.

Qualifications

• SQL Server experience preferred, MySQL, PostgreSQL nice to haves.
• 7+ Years working with relational databases systems (3+ at a Senior, lead or architect level).
• 2+ years in a DBRE or SRE role.
• Experience working in the cloud (AWS, GCP or Azure).
• Coding / Automation Experience.
• Experience working with IaC tools such as Ansible, Terraform.
• Experience working with source control such as GIT.
• Experience working with VLDBs (1+ TB) and managing a large number of databases (100+).
• Languages such as Powershell, C#, SQL, Python.
• Additional experience with the following tools/systems a plus: Git, Jira, Azure Data Factory, DataBricks, Grafana, InfluxDB and flavors of NoSQL databases.

Requirements

• Some on-call or after-hours work will be required.

Benefits

• Benefits starting from Day 1!
• Retirement Plan Matching.
• Flexible Paid Time Off.
• Wellness Support Programs and Resources.
• Parental & Caregiver Leaves.
• Fertility & Adoption Support.
• Continuous Development Support Program.
• Employee Assistance Program.
• Allyship and Inclusion Communities.
• Employee Recognition … and more!