Principal Site Reliability Engineer - Database Infrastructure — Sydney CBD, Sydney

Expired

We are looking for a Principal Engineer with a background in large scale relational database deployments and who is passionate about solving complex problems at scale to join our Product SRE group, reporting to the APAC site lead. You are someone who is aware of current industry trends (particularly those related to relational database infrastructure and reliability) and who values working with a diverse set of partners, who can articulate the business impact of a problem and can also dive deep into the technical solution.We'd love it if you brought a deep understanding of modern cloud infrastructure, database performance and tuning, programming expertise, operational experience and a desire to change the status quo. We're looking for an engineer who can analyse and help improve our services and processes to get us to an even higher level of reliability, performance, scalability, and cost efficiency. You'll achieve this by crossing team and functional boundaries to advocate for reliability methodologies and will work with a variety of platform, product and SRE teams to both build reliability into our platform and drive adoption of those practices into our products. On your first day, we'll expect you to have: Expert-level proficiency with 8 years experience in one or more prominent languages such as Java, Go or Python. Expert-level proficiency with 5 years experience in public cloud offerings (AWS components like EC2, CloudFormation, RDS / Aurora, Caches, SQS - or equivalents, e.g. in GCP / Azure). Expert-level proficiency with 5 years experience in operating high-availability, fault-tolerant, scalable, distributed software in production: building monitoring into your code, tweaking dashboards, defining alerts, writing runbooks, etc. Proficiency with 3 years of experience with public cloud relational database offerings (Amazon RDS / Aurora, Azure SQL Database, Google Cloud SQL). An ability and desire to mentor and coach engineers. It would be great, but not mandatory if you had: Experience in SQL, complex query optimization, as well as scalability and performance tuning of relational databases. Experience performing capacity planning for high-availability, multi-tenant databases. Excellent communication skills in written and verbal forms, and an ability to communicate complex technical issues to a range of technical and non-technical audiences (management, peers, clients).