Requirements

• 5+ years experience as a backend engineer and a Bachelor's degree. In lieu of a degree, 7+ years of relevant experience may suffice
• Experienced with cloud native databases (AWS preferred), including transactional RDBMS such as Aurora, MySQL, and Postgres, as well as NoSQL databases such as DynamoDB or MongoDB
• Experienced in cloud based high availability, disaster recovery, and distributed systems including replication and failover
• Experienced in IaaC, automation and orchestration tools (Terraform, AWS Step Function, etc.)
• Experienced CI/CD — pipelines, job runners, deployment automation
• Solid understanding of database administration: internals, query tuning, indexing, and performance metrics
• Proficient in Python
• Experience with Linux commands and shell scripting
• Experienced in monitoring and observability tools: Datadog preferred