Senior Database Reliability Engineer

Penn Interactive

4d • $150,000 - $190,000 • Remote

About The Position

PENN Entertainment is seeking a Senior Database Reliability Engineer to join its Engineering team. The role works across engineering on database architecture and platform performance, including designing and administering databases, addressing production issues, and using cloud technologies. The position focuses on cloud-native Kubernetes platforms and DevOps principles, with emphasis on availability, reliability, and durability.

As part of the Database Engineering team focused on Site Reliability, the engineer will assess and improve database architecture, support production operations, and help develop database direction and reusable designs across AWS and GCP. The role uses Terraform and GitOps for infrastructure deployment and supports business continuity through database architecture, backups, compute, network, and storage development.

The position is remote, as indicated by the job posting’s #LI-REMOTE tag. The listed salary range is $150,000–$190,000 USD. PENN Interactive offers a competitive compensation package, comprehensive benefits, a fun and relaxed work environment, and education and conference reimbursements.

Requirements

• At least 5 years of hands-on Database Engineering experience; PostgreSQL is required.
• At least 5 years of experience working in an AWS or GCP cloud environment.
• At least 3 years of high-level programming experience in Python or Go.
• Experience working with Kubernetes operators, specifically Zalando and CNPG.
• Experience with PostgreSQL, Kafka or other distributed event-streaming systems, ETLs, and CDC.
• Strong database monitoring experience.
• Strong database architecture experience.
• Strong production Kubernetes experience.
• Experience working with applications requiring compliance audits.
• Experience handling production support issues and remediating them in a timely manner.
• Experience building infrastructure as code; Terraform is preferred.

Nice To Haves

• Terraform experience is preferred.

Responsibilities

• Evaluate existing database architectures and recommend improvements to maintain performance and availability.
• Work within agile Scrum and Kanban processes to support engineering and operational efforts.
• Respond to database outages, assist with triage, and remediate database-related issues.
• Evaluate database schemas, partitions, views, and queries, and implement changes to improve performance.
• Manage and maintain replication between databases to support resilience and recovery from faults.
• Make product-choice, design-method, and data-modeling decisions for AWS and GCP database direction.
• Develop database architecture supporting the business continuity plan, including backups, compute, network, and storage.
• Use Terraform and GitOps to automate infrastructure deployment and creation.
• Develop a common database design architecture that can be replicated for new database installations.
• Perform other duties as required.

Benefits

• Competitive compensation package.
• Comprehensive benefits package.
• Education and conference reimbursements.
• Benefits intended to support employees physically, financially, and emotionally, including personalized options, expert guidance, and always-on tools.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Education Level: No Education Listed