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Job Responsibility:
working with the latest versions of PostgreSQL database which is the main persistence store for our Ruby on Rails application
help us scale, optimize and shard our database infrastructure in line with the significant growth our product area is currently seeing
understands database performance and our current workloads
has a good knowledge of 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
Requirements:
5+ years experience working with PostgreSQL, planning and provisioning database instances
Commercial experience managing PostgreSQL database performance relative to workload requirements
Proven database deployment experience, particularly in public clouds (preferably AWS and their RDS offering)
PostgreSQL development experience in a scaled environment
Nice to have:
working with databases that cross-regions/datacenters
working with teams that use ORMs (AR in rails) or other application framework
You propose pragmatic solutions to painful problems
You seek innovative solutions to problems
You find opportunities to teach others
You are a team player, you motivate your teammates