Senior Database Engineer
Zoox
- Foster City, CA
- Permanent
- Full-time
- Lead database architecture and design efforts to meet business requirements.
- Develop and maintain database code with a focus on performance and scalability.
- Identify and resolve performance bottlenecks through optimization and tuning.
- Administer and secure database servers, ensuring data integrity and availability.
- Design and implement ETL processes for data integration and transformation.
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to understand and address database needs.
- Mentor junior engineers and provide technical guidance and support.
- Document database designs, configurations, and processes thoroughly.
- Ensure compliance with regulatory requirements and data privacy regulations.
- Investigate and resolve database-related incidents and outages promptly.
- Participate in database on-call support.
- Expertise in PostgreSQL and MySQL.
- Proficiency in AWS Services such as EC2, RDS, S3, Lambda, IAM, CloudFormation, CloudWatch.
- Database Design and Modeling experience.
- Strong programming skills in Python.
- Experience with performance optimization and tuning including query optimization, indexing strategies, and hardware optimization.
- Experience with Data Integration and ETL.
- Knowledge of Infrastructure as Code (IaC) such as Terraform and Salt.
- Strong problem-solving and troubleshooting skills.