Senior Cloud Data Engineer

WHAT YOU'LL BE DOING:

• Work with a customer-focused dedicated team of SREs, Architects, and Engineers who are passionate about reducing the toil of software vulnerability remediation for our customers: IT, Engineering, and Operations teams.
• Leverage your engineering skills to dive into and prevent bottlenecks and inefficiencies of data systems and help shape the future of the data platform. 
• Pair with fellow Architects, SREs and partner with software engineers to learn new technologies and innovative ways of building scalable cloud-native data platforms.
• Help us build on and improve a self-service, cloud-native software delivery platform that enables developers to go from development to production quickly.
• Partner with Automox's Engineering teams to identify, instrument, and measure the performance of data services that impact Automox's customers. 
• Learn and grow your skills while working with new and exciting technologies

WHAT YOU BRING TO THE TABLE:

• 6+ years of experience as a DBA, Database Engineer, or similar role is required.
• Experience with data management systems: Relational Databases (e.g. PostgreSQL), Event Streaming Platforms (e.g. Kafka), Key-Value Stores (e.g. Redis) is required.
• Experience with database load balancer/proxy tools (e.g PGPool, PGBouncer)
• A cloud certification (such as AWS cloud certification) is highly desirable.
• Familiarity with Cloud technologies such as RDS, Redshift, DynamoDB, EC2, S3, CLI, SDK, or equivalent cloud services.
• Exposure to a fast pace environment with focus on a growth stage product and scaled cloud infrastructure setup.
• Proficiency in coding in SQL, SPARQL, and/or other no-SQL data languages
• Should have worked in Agile methodology.
• Comfortable working outside and inside the database (setting up, optimizing, etc)
• Able to define and optimize data structures and recommend optimal techniques for data processing
• Experience deploying Database migrations in a safe, automated way.
• Solid understanding of all software development process phases, from initial requirements to operational support.
• Excellent problem-solving skills and experience with Production Incident Management / Root Cause analysis.
• Experience with important distributed systems service, including supporting Database Production Infrastructure with 24x7x365 support responsibilities.
• Have outstanding verbal and written communication skills and excellent speaking-listening-writing skills, attention to detail, proactive self-starter.
• Ability to deliver initiatives from conception through support.