Software Engineer — DBA

• Contribute to HA Open Source Database solutions utilizing mariadb, postgres, and tidb.
• Revisit current architecture and make recommendations for any improvements or gaps in the designs.
• Must understand importance of protecting data and ensure even for non production environments to make sure the data is properly backed up and protected
• Help with any slow queries or other optimizations that can increase the performance of our databases.
• Willingness to work with team to work on Infrastructure as code principles to automate all activities
• Must be willing to handle oncall responsibilities
• Still work with the team to try to find solutions that we can best support based on our existing infrastructure as code technologies
• Can not rely strictly on cloud based DB solutions

• Be comfortable in a Linux Based environment (rocky/centos/rhel and ubuntu)
• Familiar with configuration management tools (ansible preferred)
• Able to communicate effectively with members of the team in different time zones
• Ability to analyze complex problems and come up with effective solutions in a cloud context.
• Able to communicate effectively with members of the team in different time zones and cross-functionals teams including DevOps, architects, and business stakeholders.
• Basic project management skills to manage tasks, timelines, and priorities effectively.
• The ability to analyze data and metrics to make data-driven decisions for optimizing cloud resources and performance.
• Ownership -Take ownership of projects, ensuring excellence in execution and accountability for results. Foster sense of responsibility and pride in delivering high-quality work
• Innovation - Drive innovation by proposing and implementing creative solutions to challenges. Stay abreast of industry trends and technologies, bringing fresh ideas to the table
• Customer focus - Understand and prioritize customer needs, striving to exceed expectations in every interaction. Collaborate with cross-functional teams to ensure the delivery of customer-centric solutions
• Teamwork - Embrace a collaborative and inclusive approach, working seamlessly with colleagues to achieve common goals
• Experience running mariadb HA workloads
• Experience with running postgres in HA setting
• Experience with being able to recover from issues such as replication failures
• Understanding of cicd pipeline concepts
• Developer experience with golang and python or similar programming languages
• Some experience with Terraform, Kubernetes, and Infrastructure as Code methodologies.

Be open to expanding into other areas such as redis or foundationdb

• Medical
• Dental
• Vision
• Life Insurance
• 401(k)
• Employee Purchase Program
• Vacation
• Sick leave
• electronic reimbursement
• bonus compensation based on individual, department, and company performance
• Work Remotely
• Referral Bonus
• Retirement Benefits with Matched 401K Contributions
• Discounts on Samsung and affiliate company products
• Training and Education
• Training resources and certifications