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 with an accent on managing engineering escalation management and response, investigations, post-mortem analysis. Focus on continuous improvement of how hirify.global is run and optimized in the cloud.

Location: This position can be based remotely in any country where hirify.global has a hiring presence.

Salary: For roles based in the United States, the typical starting salary range for this position is listed above. In certain locations, such as the San Francisco Bay Area and the New York City Metro Area, a premium market range may apply, as listed.

Company

hirify.global is one of the most innovative and fast-growing private cloud companies that leads the market in real-time analytics, data warehousing, observability, and AI workloads.

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.

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.