Database Engineer

Podium exists to help local businesses win. Using Podium, local businesses can simplify the way they communicate with their customers—from collecting payments to facilitating online reviews to launching marketing campaigns, and much more. Our work and focus on helping local businesses thrive has been recognized across the industry, including Forbes’ Next Billion Dollar Startups, Forbes’ Cloud 100, the Inc. 5000, and Fast Company’s World’s Most Innovative Companies. We look for people who are curious, creative and are willing to do the work to be a little better every day. We also embody our company values in all that we do, which always starts with being Customer Obsessed, followed by Be a Founder, Zero Drama, and Enjoy the Ride. Does that sound like you? As a Database Engineer, you will work with a remote team of DBEs and DataOps Engineers in a fast-paced dynamic environment. Our PostgreSQL databases live in AWS RDS Aurora. This position is primarily focused on PostgreSQL and the DBE (DBA) work style, but the overall Data Stores team supports Elasticsearch, Redis, Kafka, Kafka Connect, RabbitMQ, and Snowflake, and there is ample opportunity to add these technologies to your repertoire.   What you will be doing: AWS RDS Aurora PostgreSQL 13+ Consulting with and advising product development engineers Rotating on-call and support weeks Upgrades Health - metrics / observability / detection Capacity planning, performance tuning Infrastructure-as-code (Terraform) Security Automation / scripting Documentation Learning to support other data stores  What you should have: 3+ years of RDBMS production experience (Postgres preferred, mysql/oracle ok) 1+ years working in an AWS (preferred) or other major cloud environment 3+ years working with Linux/Unix environments Infrastructure-as-code experience (Terraform preferred, others considered) Comfort moving quickly but carefully in a startup-paced environment Desire to grow into a broad data stores engineer beyond just PostgreSQL Passionate about communication and sharing information What we hope you have: AWS RDS Aurora Experience working on the systems side of several types of data store technologies  Experience shell scripting and/or coding, especially to automate data store tasks Experience in working with fast-moving, highly skilled product-creating Engineers Experience maintaining low-latency (microsecond) data stores Experience working on data stores with low-to-no-downtime SLOs Experience with database migration packages like Elixir’s Ecto Experience with metrics and monitors in Datadog or similar  Ansible Docker Elixir or Python