About the Job:
Join the company, a mission-focused company at the forefront of crypto and blockchain technology. As a Senior Database Platform Engineer, you will work with our Core Infrastructure – Data Systems team, which is responsible for building and maintaining the shared data systems that other engineering teams depend on to deliver production services efficiently. Your role is hands-on and includes owning and enhancing production-grade stateful systems, improving observability, incident prevention, and collaborating with other engineers on data-system design and performance.
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Location: United Arab Emirates (Remote)
Work Conditions: Full-time, Remote
Language Requirements: Over 50 languages spoken within the team, specific language requirements not listed.
Key Responsibilities:
- Ensure reliability, availability, performance, capacity, backup/restore, disaster recovery, and security of shared data systems.
- Operate and enhance platforms including Kafka, Redis, Elasticsearch, MariaDB, and various NoSQL databases.
- Build and maintain high-touch abstractions and self-service workflows for operational changes and maintenance.
- Automate repetitive tasks, enhancing diagnostics, documentation, and incident resolution.
- Collaborate with internal engineering teams on data access patterns, query optimization, schema design, and operational readiness.
- Enhance observability, alerting, SLOs, and operational reviews to streamline systems understanding and reduce incident frequency.
- Participate in on-call rotations and incident response.
Required Skills:
- Strong hands-on experience in operating production-grade stateful or distributed systems.
- Proficient in programming languages such as Python, Rust, or Go, with a history of automating operations or infrastructure tasks.
- Experience deploying and managing production tools and services.
- Familiarity with Kubernetes, especially regarding stateful workloads.
- Solid understanding of Linux, networking, and systems troubleshooting.
- Experience with observability, incident response, and post-incident analysis.
Nice to Have:
- Experience with MariaDB, PostgreSQL, Kafka, Redis, Elasticsearch, or MongoDB.
- Familiarity with automation tools such as Terraform, GitOps, CI/CD.
- Knowledge of data engineering technologies like CDC, Kafka Connect, or Flink.
The company celebrates diversity and encourages applicants from various backgrounds to apply, especially if they have a passion or knowledge of crypto. We assess candidates based on merit and aim to create an inclusive work environment.
