Requirements

5+ years experience as a backend engineer and a Bachelor's degree. In lieu of a degree, 7+ years of relevant experience may suffice

Experienced with cloud native databases (AWS preferred), including transactional RDBMS such as Aurora, MySQL, and Postgres, as well as NoSQL databases such as DynamoDB or MongoDB

Experienced in cloud based high availability, disaster recovery, and distributed systems including replication and failover

Experienced in IaaC, automation and orchestration tools (Terraform, AWS Step Function, etc.)

Experienced CI/CD — pipelines, job runners, deployment automation

Solid understanding of database administration: internals, query tuning, indexing, and performance metrics

Proficient in Python

Experience with Linux commands and shell scripting

Experienced in monitoring and observability tools: Datadog preferred

Strong sense of ownership — you follow through, raise i...