Senior Database Reliability Engineer (Postgres)

Location: Remote, Canada. Other location: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States.

Salary: CAD 150,000–190,000 per year.

Company

PENN Entertainment provides integrated casino gaming, online gaming, sports betting, media, and entertainment products through proprietary technology platforms.

What you will do

• Evaluate database architectures, schemas, partitions, views, and queries to improve performance and availability.
• Respond to database outages, triage production incidents, and implement timely remediation.
• Manage database replication, backups, compute, networking, and storage to support resilience and business continuity.
• Design AWS and GCP database solutions and develop common architectures for repeatable database installations.
• Automate infrastructure deployment with Terraform and GitOps.
• Collaborate cross-functionally within Agile Scrum and Kanban engineering teams.

Requirements

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

Culture & Benefits

• Remote work based in Canada.
• Competitive compensation and comprehensive benefits.
• Fun, relaxed work environment.
• Education and conference reimbursements.
• Equal opportunity employment and additional rewards may include bonuses for eligible non-sales positions.