USD per year
Database Reliability Engineer IV
Atlanta, Georgia, United States Department: Product Development Employment Type: Regular Company Overview: PagerDuty, Inc. (NYSE:PD) is a global leader in digital operations management, trusted by nearly half of the Fortune 500 and Forbes AI 50, as well as about two-thirds of the Fortune 100. PagerDuty delivers always-on digital experiences to modern businesses. Join us. At PagerDuty, you'll tackle complex problems, collaborate with kind and ambitious people, and help build a more equitable world—all in a flexible, award-winning workplace. PagerDuty is seeking a proficient Senior Database Reliability Engineer (DBRE) IV to enhance our dynamic, customer-centric team! In this role as a DBRE, you will develop standards and practices for our back-end data storage, and data streaming systems. You will also build tools to enable engineers to easily interact with and optimize their database systems. This role offers a thrilling opportunity to contribute to scaling the PagerDuty Platform. The perfect candidate will come with coding/scripting abilities, Kafka expertise, experience with AWS, and a solid background in Site Reliability Engineering or DBRE in high-scale environments. If you have a track record of solving complex problems with automation and a keen interest in making database systems more approachable to others, then you’re the ideal candidate.
Key Responsibilities
- Partner with Engineering stakeholders to design and deliver reliable, scalable, secure, performant data platforms.
- Improve customer experience through full lifecycle support (creation to retirement), observability, connectivity, monitoring.
- Stay current on technology trends to deliver innovative tools and approaches.
- Share expertise across the Engineering organization.
- Participate in a 24/7 on-call rotation using PagerDuty.
Basic Qualifications
- 5+ years experience in SRE, DBRE or Software Development.
- 3+ years experience with database management systems such as MySQL, PostgreSQL, DynamoDB or Cassandra.
- Experience with Ruby, Python or Golang.
- Experience working on cloud-native infrastructure in AWS.
- Experience working with container scheduler platforms preferably Kubernetes.
Preferred Qualifications
- Infrastructure as code (Terraform) for managing database & cloud resources.
- Data streaming solutions such as Kafka or AWS Kinesis.
- Knowledge of Kafka-related tools/frameworks like Apache ZooKeeper Kafka Connect Kafka Streams or KSQL.
- Experience with monitoring/observability/logging platforms for databases such as DataDog New Relic Grafana Logs.
- Configuration management systems like Ansible Chef or Puppet for database infrastructure management.
- Automating database releases continuous integration/delivery systems/tools focused on performance and reliability such as Jenkins CircleCI Travis CI Buildkite.
PagerDuty is a flexible hybrid workplace expected to be in Atlanta office 2 days per week so you can thrive in your new role fully embrace being a Dutonian! Salary Range: $150000 - $252000 USD base salary may include bonus commission equity benefits. Additional Information: PagerDuty embraces diversity inclusion offers comprehensive benefits including paid parental leave wellness days volunteer time off uses E-Verify provides accommodations for disabilities.
Join our global team of innovators shaping the future of digital operations with AI. At PagerDuty, you'll tackle complex problems impacting millions, grow your career at the cutting edge of technology, and help build a more equitable world—all in a flexible, open environment.
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