Senior Database Reliability Engineer (Online Gaming)

Location: Remote, United States; other listed location: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States.

Salary: $150,000–$190,000 USD annually.

Company

hirify.global develops online gaming, sports betting, sports media, and entertainment platforms as part of PENN Entertainment.

What you will do

• Evaluate database architectures, schemas, partitions, views, and queries to improve performance and availability.
• Design and administer databases across cloud-native Kubernetes platforms, including AWS and GCP database direction.
• Respond to database outages, triage incidents, and remediate production issues in a timely manner.
• Manage database replication, backups, compute, networking, and storage to support resilience and business continuity.
• Build reusable database architectures and automate infrastructure deployment with Terraform and GitOps.
• Collaborate cross-functionally within agile Scrum and Kanban teams and support engineering efforts.

Requirements

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

Culture & Benefits

• Remote work from the United States within the Interactive Engineering organization.
• Competitive compensation and comprehensive benefits.
• Fun, relaxed work environment.
• Education and conference reimbursement.
• Equal opportunity employment and additional bonus eligibility for most non-sales positions.