Database Engineer II

DataRobot R&D is a hard-working, fast-moving, fun-loving team of developers who put products before pride. Job Description: DataRobot delivers AI that maximizes impact and minimizes business risk. Our platform and applications integrate into core business processes so teams can develop, deliver, and govern AI at scale. DataRobot empowers practitioners to deliver predictive and generative AI, and enables leaders to secure their AI assets. Organizations worldwide rely on DataRobot for AI that makes sense for their business — today and in the future. Datarobot is actively seeking a Database Engineer to join our Fleet Management team. This is a pivotal role that requires creativity, deep technical knowledge, and great enthusiasm to manage our stateful infrastructure. This position is an exciting opportunity to own the full lifecycle (administration, automation, and troubleshooting) of our critical database systems operating within a large-scale, multi-tenant Kubernetes environment. You will be essential in driving our GitOps and Helm-centric deployment strategy, focusing on ensuring zero-downtime upgrades and maximizing performance and stability for our core platform services. This role offers the perfect opportunity to hone your skills and gain direct exposure to advanced cloud database architecture and container orchestration challenges. Key Responsibilities:

• Design, implement, and maintain database infrastructure using StatefulSets, Operators, and Helm charts toensure databases are reliable, self-healing, and scalable.
• Own the deployment lifecycle for database clusters bymanaging version control for Helm charts and configuration templates.
• Support and administer production database systems byproactively instrumenting and monitoring performance, security, and availability within the containerized environment.
• Perform zero-downtime upgrades and migrations for major and minor releases, developing and maintaining Helm hooks and custom scripts toautomate complex stateful operations.
• Manage and optimize performance for backend data stores, ensuring data consistency and integrity across pod life cycles.
• Develop and maintain automation tools and scripts (Bash, Python) specifically focused onsimplifying Kubernetes management tasks, such asprovisioning users/secrets and monitoring cluster state.

Knowledge, Skills &Abilities:

• 3-5years ofexperience managing large-scale, high-availability database systems (PostgreSQL and MongoDB) incloud environments (AWS, GCP, orAzure)
• Experience with Kubernetes &Helm
• Experience with advanced PostgreSQLHA concepts (e.g., streaming replication, Repmgr/Patroni) and/or MongoDB sharding and replication

The talent and dedication of our employees are at the core of DataRobots journey to be an iconic company. We strive to attract and retain the best talent by providing competitive pay and benefits with our employees well-being at the core. Heres what your benefits package may include depending on your location and local legal requirements: Medical, Dental & Vision Insurance, Flexible Time Off Program, Paid Holidays, Paid Parental Leave, Global Employee Assistance Program (EAP) and more! DataRobot Operating Principles:

• Wow Our Customers
• Set High Standards
• Be Better Than Yesterday
• Be Rigorous
• Assume Positive Intent
• Have the Tough Conversations
• Be Better Together
• Debate, Decide, Commit
• Deliver Results
• Overcommunicate

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