Cisco Meraki · 17 hours ago
Senior Database Engineer (Remote)
San Francisco Bay Area, CA
Full-time
Remote
Senior Level
$131K/yr - $185K/yr
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Responsibilities
Work alongside our SRE teams to plan, administer, maintain and secure our PostgreSQL infrastructure across our backend
Perform operational DBA duties: installation, database upgrades, patching, implement backup/recovery and monitoring procedures, capacity planning, and site failover/switchover
Ensure systems are running at the highest possible performance level by analyzing and tuning queries
Guide engineers on performance tuning and optimization, query optimization, index tuning, caching, buffer tuning, etc.
Review database changes requested by engineering teams for impacts to database designs, design standards, data conversions, naming standards, and documentation
Learn about the data and it's use to make recommendations for improvements in how it is stored and processed
Work with Data Engineering team to design, build and maintain ETL pipelines for PG
Develop procedures and scripts for data migration
Automate schema management with tools like Liquibase, ActiveRecords, etc.
Support architectural changes with new database environments in both public and private clouds
Qualification
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Required
Deep knowledge and experience designing and maintaining PostgreSQL infrastructure On-prem and in cloud
Experience building and maintaining sophisticated mission-critical production database systems
Experience analyzing issues holistically, from the application tier through the database, down to the storage
Proven track record of automating tasks
Working knowledge of relational database internals (locking, consistency, serialization, recovery paths)
Systems engineering experience, including Linux performance, memory management, I/O tuning, configuration, security, networking, etc.
Working knowledge of at least one scripting language (shell, Python, Perl)
Preferred
Experience with NoSQL databases, memory stores e.g. Redis
Experience migrating database from on-prem to cloud and vice versa
Experience with Timeseries databases
Experience with messaging queues
Benefits
Quality medical, dental and vision insurance
A 401(k) plan with a Cisco matching contribution
Short and long-term disability coverage
Basic life insurance
Numerous wellbeing offerings
Up to twelve paid holidays per calendar year
One floating holiday
A day off for their birthday
Up to 16 days of vacation time off each year
Cisco's flexible Vacation Time Off policy
Sick Time Off subject to Cisco's Sick Time Off Policy
Eighty (80) hours of sick time off provided on their hire date
Paid time away to deal with critical or emergency issues
Additional paid time to volunteer and give back to the community
Company
Cisco Meraki
At Cisco Meraki, we create intuitive technologies to optimize experiences, secure locations, and seamlessly connect people, places, and things.
Founded in 2006
1001-5000 employees
Funding
Current Stage
Late StageTotal Funding
$80MKey Investors
Sequoia Capital
2012-11-20Acquired
2012-07-10Series D· $40M
2011-02-07Series C· $15M
Leadership Team
David van Schravendijk
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Simon Tompson
Head of Audience Marketing
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