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AlpacaAlpacaUnited States

Staff Site Reliability Engineer, Database

Staff SRE focused on ensuring reliability and performance of multi-terabyte PostgreSQL clusters in a fintech environment. Triages issues, improves observability, manages incidents, and collaborates on scalable designs. Requires 5+ years with PostgreSQL, Go, Prometheus, and Linux.

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Remote5+ YOEDevOps / SRE

About the role

Responsibilities

  • Triage difficult technical problems and implement solutions
  • Improve our observability stack (monitoring, logging, profiling)
  • Incident Management: Respond to and resolve incidents in a timely manner, conducting post-incident reviews to identify and implement improvements.
  • Collaboration: Work closely with development teams to ensure new features and services are designed with reliability and scalability in mind.
  • Capacity Planning: Monitor system capacity and performance, making recommendations and implementing changes to handle future growth.

Requirements

  • 5+ years of experience in Site Reliability Engineering, Performance Engineering, or similar roles.
  • 5+ years of experience with multi-terabyte scale PostgreSQL clusters.
  • Proven track record of managing and maintaining large-scale, high-availability, and high-performance PostgreSQL database.
  • Experience designing and implementing SLIs, SLOs, and SLAs for internal systems and databases.
  • Experience with troubleshooting PostgreSQL performance problems and slow queries.
  • Extensive experience with efficient schema design and efficient query design.
  • Experience migrating multi-terabyte tables into more efficient schemas.
  • Proficient with Go.
  • Proficient with Prometheus.
  • Proficient with Linux.
  • Knowledgeable in trading/fintech domains.
  • Experience with low-latency systems.
  • Experience with distributed tracing.
  • Experience scaling PostgreSQL clusters rapidly.
  • Experience with pgx, gorm, or sqlc.

Compensation & Benefits

  • Competitive Salary & Stock Options
  • Health Benefits
  • New Hire Home-Office Setup: One-time USD $500
  • Monthly Stipend: USD $150 per month via a Brex Card

Skills

PostgresGoPrometheusLinuxPgxGormSqlcSlisSLOsSlas

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