Senior Database Reliability Engineer

Responsibilities include, but are not limited to

• Lead, and take ownership of our core database systems to ensure high levels of performance, availability, and security
• Communicate critical data changes to the data warehousing team
• Work alongside both engineering teams and data teams to shepherd schema changes from design to deployment to ensure architectural and downstream compatibility
• Build and maintain automated test and deployment data pipelines, including production level data testing at scale, with SRE and DevOps teams
• Proactively work on detecting weak areas and incorporate into automated monitoring and production alerting with our Cloud Ops teams
• Document and automate processes to eliminate time spent on recurring tasks
• Evaluate new database features (and products if needed) to meet scalability and global uptime requirements
• Own database backup and recovery, and help establish disaster recovery targets and practices as the systems scale
• Support, debug, and perform RCA on production database issues, and participate in incident response as needed

Qualifications:

• 5+ years of experience managing MySQL/CloudSQL at scale
• Expert at SQL and MySQL specifics including schema design
• Deep knowledge of MySQL internals
• Solid understanding of MySQL replication, SQL tuning, and database optimization while minimizing downtime
• Experience operating Google Cloud Spanner at scale, including schema design and query optimization
• BS in Computer Science or equivalent program
• Bonus points for:
  • Payments experience (or related industry)
  • Experience with the GCP toolset
  • Experience with infrastructure as code
  • Experience with Redis
  • Experience with global, multi-region deployments including sharding