Janus International · 13 hours ago
Sr. Database Engineer - Noke
Janus International is seeking a Senior Database Engineer to design, build, and operate AWS-native, production grade databases. The role involves owning DBA/admin responsibilities, performance tuning, and ensuring reliable, secure, and discoverable data at scale.
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Responsibilities
Own installation, configuration, upgrades, backup/restore, HA/DR, capacity planning maintenance, runtime of Aurora/RDS (MySQL/Postgres), Redshift, DynamoDB, and TimescaleDB
Implement database connection and memory management, lock contentions, deadlock remediations etc. to ensure database scalability and reliability. Perform data validation, de-duplication, and cleanup tasks to maintain integrity
Partner with Product, and other engineering teams to enable cross-functional software delivery of new/enhanced platform functions, real‑time and batch, scheduled/ad-hoc data analytics, reporting across use cases
Perform SQL and NoSQL performance tuning (indexes, query plans, hot partition mitigation, connection/session tuning, auto-vacuum/maintenance) and root cause analysis for latency and throughput issues
Implement data quality checks, data drift monitoring, and diffing across environments; alert on SLO/SLA breaches
Build and own end to end monitoring and dashboards using CloudWatch/Prometheus (or equivalent) across storage, and serving layers, to track database health, identify slow queries, and escalate performance issues
Treat data as code: version controlled pipelines, CI/CD for ETL/ELT, db scripts, stored procedures and automated testing/validation, environment promotion with rollback
Qualification
Required
3+ years in data engineering (or equivalent) with deep AWS expertise in building and maintaining production data platforms
3+ years of proven DBA/admin expertise and experience across RDBMS (Aurora/RDS: MySQL/Postgres; Redshift) and NoSQL (DynamoDB, MongoDB): installation, upgrades, backup/restore, HA/DR, security, maintenance and performance tuning
3+ years of expertise in production maintenance of distributed databases, across large-scale data lifecycles -including designing, maintaining partitioning, archiving, purging etc
Working knowledge with Automation and Performance observability tools, to automate anomaly detection, proactive scaling alarms and build self-healing runtime operations tasks
Company
Janus International
Janus International Group is the leading global manufacturer and supplier of turn-key self-storage, commercial and industrial building solutions including: roll up and swing doors, hallway systems, relocatable storage units, and facility and door automation technologies.
Funding
Current Stage
Public CompanyTotal Funding
$250M2021-06-08Post Ipo Equity· $250M
2021-06-08IPO
2018-01-17Acquired
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