Senior DBA Engineer
Envoy
- San Francisco, CA
- Permanent
- Full-time
- Perform Database maintenance - upgrades, patching, security, troubleshooting and issue resolution, backup procedures, and performance tuning
- Consult with software engineers and advise on optimizing query performance.
- Perform database health checks
- Plan and perform the database upgrades
- Work closely with the application team to understand changes planned, perform an impact analysis, and provide feedback.
- In consultation with the fellow engineers, will advise on alternative storage solutions, e.g. NoSQL or other
- Required Skills: 5+ year's hands-on database administration experience, with a minimum of 3 years in PostgreSQL.
- Python scripting experience, or unix shell scripting experience.
- Excellent understanding of PostgreSQL database concepts and structures
- Excellent knowledge of PostgreSQL
- Clustering architectures
- Excellent understanding of PostgreSQL database performance tuning skills
- Exposure to AWS RDS/AWS is a plus.
- An exceptional writer and spoken communicator
- Highly organized & autonomous
- Comfortable and energized operating in a fast moving organization
- Passionate about our product and working with Enterprise sized businesses
- Enthusiastic about learning and growing at Envoy
- Intellectually curious and ambitious
- A high degree of trust in your ideas and execution
- An opportunity to partner and collaborate with other talented people
- An inclusive community where you feel welcomed and cared for as a person
- The ability to make an immediate impact helping customers create a great workplace experience
- Support for your personal and professional growth