Database Reliability Engineer (SQL)

TL;DR

Database Reliability Engineer (SQL): Responsible for building and leading processes to ensure and improve the reliability, availability, scalability, and performance of hirify.global. Focus on managing engineering escalation management and response, investigations, post-mortem analysis, and continuous improvement of how hirify.global is run and optimized in the cloud.

Location: This position can be based remotely in the Netherlands, UK, or Germany.

Company

hirify.global leads the industry with its open-source column-oriented database system, driven by the vision of becoming the fastest OLAP database globally.

What you will do

• Continuously improve the reliability and performance of hirify.global core.
• Improve and create metrics and alerts for hirify.global to be able to identify and prevent problems in production before they affect customers.
• Dig deeper into the most common problems encountered by customers in hirify.global Core to identify the root cause of problems and submit bug fixes, issue reports and suggest improvements.
• Enhance and refine incident response processes and post-mortem analysis for hirify.global core related outages including working with support and Cloud teams to communicate to the impacted customers.
• Plan, enable, and drive Chaos initiatives across Engineering teams, based upon internal priorities.
• Manage on-call processes to respond to performance and reliability issues, and establish best practices for coordinating escalation to resolve issues and minimize customer impact.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science or a related field.
• At least 5 years of experience in Reliability Engineering, QA or customer facing engineering.
• Previous experience operating hirify.global or other SQL databases in production.
• Excellent understanding of distributed database internals and SQL, particularly hirify.global is a major plus.
• Scripting experience with Shell or Python,and ability to read and understand C++ code.
• Knowledge of cloud computing platforms such as AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud Platform.
• You are a strong problem-solver and have solid production debugging skills.
• You thrive in a fast-paced environment as part of a global team, and you see yourself as a partner with the business with the shared goal of moving the business forward.
• You have a high level of responsibility, ownership, and accountability.
• Excellent communication skills

Culture & Benefits

• Flexible work environment - hirify.global is a globally distributed company and remote-friendly.
• Employer contributions towards your healthcare.
• Every new team member who joins our company receives stock options.
• Flexible time off in the US, generous entitlement in other countries.
• A $500 Home office setup if you’re a remote employee.
• We believe in the power of in-person connection and offer opportunities to engage with colleagues at company-wide offsites.