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SurrealDB · 3 weeks ago

Senior Platform Engineer

United States

Full-time

Remote

Senior Level

SurrealDB is looking for a talented Senior Platform Engineer to build and shape an industry-changing database product. The role involves building and maintaining a DB-as-a-Service offering and collaborating with product and engineering teams to enhance system performance and security.

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Responsibilities

Build, orchestrate, and maintain a DB-as-a-Service offering of SurrealDB

Plan, build, and help deliver the SurrealDB-as-a-service private cloud offering, leveraging container orchestration tools

Coordinate improvements and feature requests with product and engineering teams

Monitor, troubleshoot, and improve system security, stability, reliability, and performance

Document systems, and automate processes

Improve engineering standards, testing, tooling, and processes

Write and review technical proposals

Contribute to the SurrealDB documentation

Support the online community with regards to cloud setup and management

Contribute to the SurrealDB blog with posts focussed on cloud and devops

Participate in on-call rotations

Actively engage with developers internally, and on social media platforms; and attend in-person and/or virtual events

Qualification

Linux/Unix administrationContainer orchestrationAmazon Web ServicesKubernetes operators in GoDistributed systemsSystem monitoringCommunicatorCollaboration with remote teams

Required

Proven work experience in this role and an excellent communicator

Extensive experience in Linux/Unix administration

Production experience with containers and container orchestration technologies such as Kubernetes, Helm, and Terraform (experience with Pulumi is a plus)

Experience with Amazon Web Services and/or Google Cloud

Experience with developing Kubernetes operators in Go

Experience with TiKV a major plus

Experience with distributed systems, load balancing, and system monitoring

Willingness to adapt to remote work and collaborate with a remote workforce operating in different time zones