Senior Database Engineer
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Senior Database Engineer working with database and software architecture teams at Payscale. Designing and implementing resilient database solutions while collaborating with cross-functional stakeholders.
Responsibilities:
- Collaborate with stakeholders from across the organization to set priorities and drive toward implementation
- Ensure database systems meet all requirements of performance, availability, scalability, quality, and security to produce world class products
- Delivering high-quality work-products; champion quality standards, performance, and scalability
- Research innovative technologies and stay ahead of the industry
- Design and implement resilient and performant database processes and solutions
- Develop custom stored procedures, views, or user-defined functions
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams
- Debug and tune/optimize SQL code either directly or indirectly from the application
- Support Tier2 development team with database requests as needed (including bug fixes, production data manipulation and feature testing)
- On-call duty may be required, responding to critical DB alerts, and escalating if needed
Requirements:
- Minimum of 7+ years of experience in administering MySQL, MariaDB, and PostgreSQL
- Support and encourage data engineering practices supporting a multi-source data ecosystem
- Extensive knowledge of Pgpool-II for query load balancing, failover management, and connection routing between primary and standby nodes
- Automate database deployment and maintenance tasks using shell scripts and infrastructure automation tools
- Develop operational runbooks for replication setup, failover recovery and pooler troubleshooting
- Intrinsic self-starter and problem solver
- Experience with performance tuning and a broad knowledge base of indexing strategies, In-Memory OLTP technologies, and best practice SQL standards
- Hands on experience with replication, performance tuning and maintenance plans
- Hands on experience building processes for OLTP and OLAP processing
- Ability to collaborate with SQL developers and solve problems
- Experience working in a microservice architecture with separate data sources per microservice
- Familiarity with one or more industry standard source control solutions (Git preferred - experience with DACPAC a plus)
- Agile experience
- Excellent communication skills
- Desire to work in a fast paced, evolving, growing, and dynamic environment
- Bachelors in computer science, Engineering, Information Technology, other relevant degree, or comparable work experience
Benefits:
- Flexible paid time off, giving you the opportunity to rest, relax and recharge away from work
- 14 Paid Company Holidays, includes 2 floating holidays (you choose!)
- A comprehensive benefits plan including medical, dental, life, vision, disability, and life insurance covered up to 100% by Payscale
- Unlimited infertility coverage benefits through our medical plans
- Additional supplemental health benefits offered to you and your family
- 401(k) retirement program with a fully vested immediate company match
- 16 weeks of paid parental leave for birthing and non-birthing parents
- Health Savings Account (HSA) options and company contributions each pay period
- Flexible Spending Account (FSA) options for pre-tax employee allocations
- Annual remote work stipend to be used on wellness or home office equipment
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