Database Reliability Engineer IV
About The Position
PagerDuty, Inc. (NYSE:PD) is a global leader in digital operations management. Trusted by nearly half of both the Fortune 500 and the Forbes AI 50, as well as approximately two-thirds of the Fortune 100, PagerDuty is essential for delivering always-on digital experiences to modern businesses. Join us. At PagerDuty, you'll tackle complex problems, collaborate with kind and ambitious people, and help build a more equitable world—all in a flexible, award-winning workplace. PagerDuty is seeking a proficient Senior Database Reliability Engineer (DBRE) IV to enhance our dynamic, customer-centric team! In this role as a DBRE, you will develop standards and practices for our back-end data storage, and data streaming systems. You will also build tools to enable engineers to easily interact with and optimize their database systems. This role offers a thrilling opportunity to contribute to scaling the PagerDuty Platform. The perfect candidate will come with coding/scripting abilities, Kafka expertise, experience with AWS, and a solid background in Site Reliability Engineering or DBRE in high-scale environments. If you have a track record of solving complex problems with automation and a keen interest in making database systems more approachable to others, then you’re the ideal candidate.
Requirements
- 5+ years of experience in SRE, DBRE, or Software Development.
- 3+ years experience with database management systems such as MySQL, PostgreSQL, DynamoDB, Cassandra, etc.
- Experience in one or more of the following languages like Ruby, Python, or Golang.
- Experience working on cloud-native infrastructure in AWS.
- Experience working with a container scheduler platform, preferably Kubernetes.
Nice To Haves
- Experience with infrastructure as code (Terraform) for managing database & cloud resources.
- Experience with data streaming solutions such as Kafka, AWS Kinesis, etc.
- Knowledge of various Kafka-related tools and frameworks, such as Apache ZooKeeper, Kafka Connect, Kafka Streams, or KSQL, can help with integrating Kafka-based solutions with external systems, data sources, and data destinations.
- Experience with monitoring, observability and logging platforms for databases (e.g. DataDog, New Relic, Grafana Logs, etc.).
- Knowledge of configuration management systems like Ansible, Chef, or Puppet for database infrastructure management.
- Experience in automating database releases, continuous integration/delivery systems, and relevant tools (e.g., Jenkins, CircleCI, Travis CI, Buildkite, etc.) with a focus on database performance and reliability.
Responsibilities
- You partner with Engineering stakeholders to design and deliver reliable, scalable, secure, and performant data platforms.
- You continuously strive to improve the customer experience: Full lifecycle support (creation, development, deployment, retirement), observability, flexible connectivity, and monitoring.
- You stay current on technology trends in order to deliver innovative tools and approaches to interesting problems.
- You share your expertise with the entire Engineering organization
- You participate in a 24/7 on-call rotation. And yes, we use PagerDuty to manage our on-call schedules.
Benefits
- Competitive salary
- Comprehensive benefits package
- Flexible work arrangements
- Company equity
- ESPP (Employee Stock Purchase Program)
- Retirement or pension plan
- Generous paid vacation time
- Paid holidays and sick leave
- Dutonian Wellness Days & HibernationDuty - companywide paid days off in addition to PTO
- Paid parental leave: 22 weeks for pregnant parent, 12 weeks for non-pregnant parent (some countries have longer leave standards and we comply with local laws)
- Paid volunteer time off: 20 hours per year
- Company-wide hack weeks
- Mental wellness programs
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Mid Level
Education Level
No Education Listed
Number of Employees
1,001-5,000 employees
