Senior Software Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Build, deploy, and ensure all DEEP& T database infrastructure is available 24/7/365
• Leverage software development and automation to design, modernize, and deliver database infrastructure.
• Participate in setting the architectural direction for database platforms and projects.
• Manage multiple competing priorities in a fast-paced, deadline-oriented environment.
• Analyze, design, and deploy fault-tolerant, distributed, and highly available database infrastructure.
• Proactively plan and implement infrastructure changes through capacity forecasting, software release cycles, and right-sizing.
• Provide database expertise through performance tuning, troubleshooting, and administration.
• Develop, enhance, and adhere to engineering and administration standards.
• Develop automation and tooling to increase operational efficiency while ensuring system reliability and security.
• Build infrastructure and systems for scalability, resiliency, availability, and recovery through infrastructure as code and configuration management.
• Provide relevant insights into data store infrastructure through metrics, monitoring, and alerting.
• Maintain thorough and well-written documentation.
• Participate in live event support and on-call rotation.
• May provide oversight and direction to junior team members.
• Build relationships with engineering teams and leads.

Requirements:

• 5+ years of related work experience with NoSQL database systems such as Cassandra, MongoDB, Redis, DocumentDB, and DynamoDB.
• Fundamental understanding of database internals for at least one of the above database engines.
• Experience working in Agile software development.
• Experience with source control management tools (Git, GitLab, GitHub).
• Intermediate to advanced level of expertise in one or more programming languages such as Python, Java, or Go.
• Experience running, deploying, and maintaining production cloud infrastructure in Amazon Web Services.
• General understanding and experience with the Linux operating system, networking, and containers.
• Experience with infrastructure as code (Terraform, CloudFormation).
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• Experience designing and deploying fault-tolerant, distributed, and highly available database infrastructure.
• Experience with disaster recovery planning and implementation.
• Carries out assignments with little coaching or guidance.
• Experience operating within a database reliability engineering (DRE) team.
• Experience building a proper path to production leveraging multiple lifecycles, testing, integration, and CI/CD pipelines.
• Experience running, deploying, and maintaining production cloud infrastructure in AWS.
• Experience with configuration management (Ansible, Chef).