About the Role You will be working with the latest versions of PostgreSQL database which is the main persistence store for our Ruby on Rails application.
We are looking for a talented engineer to help us scale, optimize and shard our database infrastructure in line with the significant growth our product area is currently seeing.
This role requires a person that : understands database performance and our current workloads has a good knowledge of a connection management and how system resources are used on a database server is familiar, and can suggest related tooling (including monitoring solutions) Is capable of tuning and configuring PostgreSQL (ideally within AWS) predicting the required capacity and helping DevOps to provision it.
We are also interested to hear about: working with databases that cross-regions/datacenters working with teams that use ORMs (AR in rails) or other application framework About You 5+ years experience working with PostgreSQL, planning and provisioning database instances You have worked with database deployments in public clouds (preferably AWS and their RDS offering) You propose pragmatic solutions to painful problems You find opportunities to teach others You are a team player, you motivate your teammates You are responsible, helpful, and kind.
You seek innovative solutions to problems.
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Believe you are missing some of the skills and are hesitant to apply?
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So however you identify and whatever background you bring with you, apply and see what we are all about.