Staff Backend Engineer owning core systems for Helius, a Solana developer platform. Driving distributed infrastructure architecture, performance, reliability, and technical direction.
About the role
- Senior Database Engineer managing Aurora Postgres databases to build and maintain products at Jobber. Collaborate with engineering teams to ensure database performance and scalability.
Responsibilities
- Reporting to a Manager, Software Engineering
- Work with the operations team and the rest of the engineering organization
- Build and maintain an industry leading product that helps our customers and their small businesses be successful
- Solve problems that millions of entrepreneurs are facing
- Ensure stability and scalability of our Aurora Postgres databases
- Identify and fix issues such as cache optimization, query optimization, indexes, IOPS, etc.
- Ensure appropriate monitoring and alerting for databases’ performance
- Collaborate with development teams on schema design and query optimization
- Conduct cost analysis and optimization of the database in the AWS cloud
Requirements
- 5 to 10 years administering databases such as Postgres, Oracle or MySQL, preferably in a cloud environment
- An understanding of Postgres internals and query analysis tools like explain plan, as well as DB performance monitoring tools like RDS Performance (Database) Insights.
- Experience with Disaster Recovery / High Availability architectures.
- Familiar with some “glue” languages (eg. Bash, Python, Ruby)
- Familiarity with Infrastructure as Code, preferably Terraform
- Familiarity with AWS technologies including: RDS Aurora, RDS Proxy and Database Migration Services or their non-AWS equivalents.
- Understanding of caching technologies like Redis and Memcache
- 2-3 years development experience (not a deal-breaker)
- Experience with Rails ActiveRecord (not a deal-breaker)
- Experience with Terraform (not a deal-breaker)
- Experience with ElasticSearch (not a deal-breaker)
- Experience with AWS Redshift (not a deal-breaker)
Benefits
- a total compensation package that includes an extended health benefits package with fully paid premiums for both body and mind
- matching in RRSP, TFSA or FHSA
- stock options
- a dedicated Talent Development team
- access to coaching, learning, and leadership programs
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