At the company, we believe that people deserve more from their money — more visibility, more control, and more freedom. Since our inception in 2015, we have rapidly expanded to over 65 million customers worldwide by offering a diverse suite of innovative financial products. As we continue to grow, we recognize that our success relies heavily on our talented workforce and our inclusive company culture. We are proud to be certified as a Great Place to Work™ and have a global team of over 10,000 employees collaborating both onsite and remotely.
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Our Technology team is essential in creating the systems and experiences that keep the company at the forefront of the finance industry. We are seeking a DevOps Engineer with database expertise to enhance our Site Reliability team, focusing on automation and tooling to efficiently manage, scale, and maintain our databases.
Responsibilities:
- Develop self-service database tools used by over 1,000 engineers.
- Build and optimize automation for database provisioning, scaling, and maintenance.
- Lead and support incident response for production database issues, ensuring reliability and rapid recovery.
- Deliver scalable, user-friendly platforms for provisioning and configuration management (IaC) across product teams.
- Monitor and optimize resource costs to ensure efficiency and minimize waste.
- Implement observability solutions for proactive system monitoring.
- Ensure compliance with industry standards through automated processes and continuous checks.
Requirements:
- Experience managing highly available PostgreSQL clusters on bare metal or cloud environments (excluding managed services).
- Operational experience with PostgreSQL lifecycle tasks, including version upgrades, backup, restore workflows, replication configuration, and disaster recovery strategy implementation.
- In-depth knowledge of PostgreSQL internals, including query planning, indexing strategies, vacuuming, performance tuning, and partitioning.
- Monitoring and observability experience with PostgreSQL.
- Understanding of database security, including TLS setup, role management, auditing, and encryption (at rest/in transit).
- Comfort in troubleshooting live production issues, such as performance degradation, lock contention, replication lag, or node failures.
- Familiarity with cloud providers like GCP and AWS.
- Experience with distributed systems, including scaling, fault-tolerance, load-balancing, networking, and security.
Nice to Have:
- Experience using Consul for high availability in database clusters.
- Knowledge of monitoring solutions (e.g., NewRelic, StackDriver, Prometheus).
- Familiarity with HashiCorp Vault.
- Experience as a backend developer.
- Knowledge of Java and Python database drivers.
- Experience with Kubernetes for continuous delivery.
The company values diversity and encourages applications from individuals with varied backgrounds and experiences. We believe that a diverse workforce drives innovation and enhances our ability to create exceptional products and services.
Language Requirements:
Not explicitly mentioned, but proficiency in English is typically expected for international roles.
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