Senior Database Reliability Engineer

About Your Role

We’re looking for a proficient Senior Database Reliability Engineer to join the Juniper Square SRE team. You will work closely with your fellow team members and developers to help scale and improve the existing systems, respond to production issues.  As we look to the future, building visibility around observability and capacity planning will help play an instrumental role in building out new products and services across the organization.

• Protect and ensure the consistency of customer data
• Work with developers to design data models, and choose the correct data stores, to support orders of magnitude more customer data and traffic.
• Influence and create new designs, architectures, standards, and methods for scalable data systems
• Engage in service capacity planning and demand forecasting, software performance analysis, query optimization and system tuning
• Support existing Production infrastructure and take initiative to identify and address opportunities for improvements within the organization
• Participate in on call rotation responding with urgency to incidents that may arise
• Work as part of a team serving multiple stakeholders, balancing priorities to deliver on time while communicating status to internal customers

Qualifications

• 5+ years of relevant experience with database services and AWS services
• Production experience managing a PostgreSQL environment
• Strong knowledge of data retention, backups and recovery processes
• You value correctness and efficiency; you leave no stone unturned when diagnosing production issues
• Systematic problem-solving approach coupled with a strong sense of ownership and drive
• Experience in one or more: Python, Go, Ruby, Scala, NodeJS,C, C++, Java
• Expertise in designing, analyzing, and troubleshooting large-scale distributed systems (Redis, Elasticsearch, Kafka, or comparable solutions)
• Familiarity with running web services at scale; understanding of cloud native technologies and networking
• You handle infrastructure with code because automation lets you focus on the more difficult and rewarding problems 

At Juniper Square, we believe building a diverse workforce and an inclusive culture makes us a better company. If you think this job sounds like a fit, we encourage you to apply even if you don’t meet all the qualifications.

Compensation

Compensation for this position includes a base salary, equity, and a variety of benefits. The U.S. base salary range for this role is $136,800 - $228,000. Actual base salaries will be based on candidate-specific factors, including experience, skillset, and location, and local minimum pay requirements as applicable. We are actively hiring for this role in Canada, and offer competitive local pay and benefits. Your recruiter can provide further details.

Benefits include:

• Health, dental, and vision care for you and your family
• Life insurance and disability coverage
• Mental wellness coverage
• Fertility and growing family support
• Unlimited vacation in addition to company paid holidays
• Paid family leave, medical leave, and bereavement leave policies
• 401k retirement savings plan
• Healthcare FSA and commuter benefits programs
• Allowance to customize your work and technology setup at home
• Annual professional development stipend

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