Senior Database Administrator

What you will be doing:
• Analyze solutions and implement best practices for PostgreSQL, MySQL and DynamoDB infrastructure.
• Provide NoSQL/SQL development guidance to engineering and technical support teams.
• Design, build and maintain core database infrastructure that allow Greenlight to scale.
• Actively monitor databases for performance issues, and take steps to identify, document, and resolve them.
• Pair with SRE team to roll out production changes and mitigate database-related production incidents.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to ensure data integration and synchronization across various systems.
• Work on automation of database infrastructure and help engineering teams succeed by building self-service tooling.
• Develop and maintain documentation including database schemas, configuration settings and standard operating procedures.
• Facilitate and improve observability across database infrastructure and take proactive measures to prevent and resolve issues.
• Perform capacity planning and forecasting to ensure adequate resources are available for current and future database needs.
• Provide on-call support and facilitate database remediations resulting from incidents
• Stay up to date with industry best practices, trends and emerging technologies related to database administration.

What you should bring:
• 5+ years of previous experience working as a DBA.
• Experience managing mission critical highly transactional and distributed databases (MySQL preferred) in the cloud
• Comfortable with rotational on-call support
• Proficient in SQL development
• Experience in troubleshooting and resolving database integrity issues, performance issues, blocking and deadlocking issues, replication and connectivity issues, etc
• Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills, with the ability to work collaboratively within Infrastructure and across Engineering.
• Experience in performance tuning, query optimization, and performance monitoring
• Experience administering AWS RDS/Aurora, DynamoDB and/or Redis (AWS Elasticache)
• Experience working with Terraform is a plus.

Working at Greenlight

Medical, dental, vision, and FSAs

Unlimited, flexible time off

Generous employer 401(k) match and equity

16-week paid parental leave

Ongoing learning and development

Remote-friendly work environment