Senior Database Engineer

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Database EngineerData & AI

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PENN Entertainment, Inc. is North America’s leading provider of integrated entertainment, sports content, and casino gaming experiences. From casinos and racetracks to online gaming,

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Database EngineerData & AI

PENN Entertainment, Inc. is North America’s leading provider of integrated entertainment, sports content, and casino gaming experiences. From casinos and racetracks to online gaming, sports betting and entertainment content, we deliver the experiences people want, how and where they want them.

We’re always on the lookout for those who are passionate about creating and delivering cutting-edge online gaming and sports media products. Whether it’s through Hollywood Casino, theScore Bet Sportsbook, or theScore media app, we’re excited to push the boundaries of what’s possible. These state-of-the-art platforms are powered by proprietary in-house technology, a key component of PENN’s omnichannel gaming and entertainment strategy.

When you join PENN Entertainment’s digital team, you’ll not only work on these cutting-edge platforms through theScore and PENN Interactive, but you’ll also be part of a company that truly cares about your career growth. We’re committed to supporting you as you expand your skills and explore new opportunities.

With locations throughout North America, you can build a future at PENN Entertainment wherever you are. If you want to challenge conventions in gaming, media and entertainment, we want to talk to you.

About the Role

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As a key As a key member of our Database Engineering team dealing with Site Reliability you will:

Evaluate current database architectures and suggest improvements to maintain performance and availability
Work within agile scrum & kanban to foster Engineering and support efforts
Support the engineering organization by responding to database outages, helping triage, and remediating any database-related issues
Support the engineering organization by evaluating database schemas, partitions, views and queries, implementing changes to increase database performance
Manage and maintain replication between databases, ensuring resilience and the ability to recover from faults (observability platform in place already)
Product choice decisions, design methods, and modelling for AWS and GCP database direction
DB architecture to support our business continuity plan, backups, compute, network and storage development, using Terraform to automate deployment/creation leveraging GitOps
Build and develop a common database design architecture that can be easily replicated for new database installations
Other duties as required

Ability to work with K8S operators. Specifically Zalando and CNPG
Experience with Postgres, Kafka (other distributed event streaming systems), ETLs and CDC
5+ years of hands on Database Engineering (Postgres preferred)
5+ years working within an AWS or GCP cloud environment
3+ years of high-level programming experience in Python or Go
Strong database monitoring experience
Strong database architecture experience
Strong Kubernetes production experience
Experience working with applications requiring compliance audits
Experience with production support issues, and how to remediate in a timely manner
Experience building infrastructure as code via IaC (preferably terraform)