Sr PostgreSQL Engineer

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You will be working with the latest  versions of PostgreSQL database which is the main persistence store for our Ruby on Rails application.  We are looking for a talented engineer to help us scale, optimize and shard our database infrastructure in line with the significant growth our product area is currently seeing. 

This role requires a person that :

• understands database performance and our current workloads

• has a good knowledge of a connection management and how system resources are used on a database server

• is familiar, and can suggest related tooling (including monitoring solutions)

• Is capable of tuning and configuring PostgreSQL (ideally within AWS)

• predicting the required capacity and helping DevOps to provision it.

We are also interested to hear about:

• working with databases that cross-regions/datacenters

• working with teams that use ORMs (AR in rails) or other application framework

• 5+ years experience working with PostgreSQL, planning and provisioning database instances

• Commercial experience managing PostgreSQL database performance relative to workload requirements 

• Proven database deployment experience, particularly in public clouds (preferably AWS and their RDS offering)

• PostgreSQL development experience in a scaled environment 

• You propose pragmatic solutions to painful problems

• You seek innovative solutions to problems

• You find opportunities to teach others

• You are a team player, you motivate your teammates 

• You are responsible, helpful, and kind

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