Database Reliability Engineer - Bethesda, MD, United States - Teaching Strategies, LLC

Teaching Strategies, LLC Bethesda, MD, United States

2 weeks ago

Description

Be a Part of our Team Join a working family that is dedicated to the mission of the work we do Teaching Strategies is an innovative edtech organization focused on connecting teachers, children, and families. As front runners in the early childhood education market, we build dynamic, top-quality digital products that integrate all of the essential elements of a high-quality solution: curriculum, assessment, professional development, and family engagement. We are building a team of results-oriented individuals who will thrive in a collaborative, work-hard/play-hard culture. We pride ourselves on the impact we have on the early childhood field through supporting teachers who are doing the most important work there is, teaching children to become creative, confident thinkers. Position Overview Teaching Strategies is looking for a highly talented, innovative, and creative Database Reliability Engineer to join our Infrastructure Engineering team. DBRE is a database-focused specialization within our SRE team and works closely with Platform Engineering (CPE) and Product Engineering teams. This is a hands-on technical role and requires a thorough understanding of all backend components of a modern cloud and data stack, including strong networking and systems-level knowledge. The ideal candidate will bring forward innovative and creative ideas around database performance, scalability, security, and high availability distributed systems design in order to help us build and maintain scalable and performant technology solutions for our products. And help advance us towards our vision of a platform provisioned and managed by Database-as-Code with automations and tooling that empowers and accelerates our engineering teams. Specific Roles & Responsibilities:

Passion for database reliability and performance, you will support all customer-facing services and products
Own our AWS Aurora PostgreSQL database clusters and ensure compliance with availability, scalability and security best practices
Own and drive improvements to observability of database performance metrics, monitors, and alerting
Work with peer SREs to safely deploy changes to our production environment
Participate in the on-call rotation with the team
Provide database expertise consulting to product engineering teams
Collaborate on PR reviews of database migrations and query and performance optimizations
Automate provisioning of database infrastructure and empower engineering team by providing self-service tooling
Proactively capacity plan for growth of the Teaching Strategies product database infrastructure
Design, build, and maintain core database infrastructure components that allow the Teaching Strategies platform to scale to support hundreds of thousands of concurrent users
Support and troubleshoot database production issues across all services and layers of the stack
Document your learnings to share with the team via runbooks and automation
Occasional domestic travel required for in-person team, department, and company meetings

Qualifications:

Minimum of 8 years of database and production support experience in a SaaS environment
Experience with Postgres, including AWS RDS and RDS Aurora
Proficiency with IaC tools such as Terraform
Proficiency with configuration management tools such as Ansible and Salt
Experience with database IaC migration tools such as Flyway or Sqitch
Production experience owning 24x7x365 mission-critical customer-facing services with >= 99.9% SLA
Strong knowledge of highly availability and geographically distributed architectures
Experience developing CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins or BitBucket Pipelines
Experience with monitoring and logging tools such as New Relic and AWS CloudWatch
Experience with Agile methodology and passion for software development best practices
Excellent troubleshooting and problem solving skills
A passion for learning new technologies
Strong sense of collaboration, teamwork, and ownership
You dream in SQL
Bonus: Experience with MongoDB and/or ElasticSearch
Bonus: Experience working for a SaaS B2B company

Why Teaching Strategies At Teaching Strategies, our solutions and services are only as strong as the teams that create them. By bringing passion, dedication, and creativity to your job every day, there's no telling what you can do and where you can go We provide a competitive compensation and benefits package, flexible work schedules, opportunities to engage with co-workers, access to career advancement and professional development opportunities, and the chance to make a difference in the communities we serve. Let's open the door to your career at Teaching Strategies Some additional benefits & perks while working with Teaching Strategies Teaching Strategies offers our employees a robust suite of benefits and other perks which include:

Competitive compensation package, including Employee Equity Appreciation Program
Health insurance benefits
401k with employer match
100% remote work environment
Unlimited paid time off (which includes paid holidays and Winter Break)
Paid parental leave
Tuition assistance and Professional development and growth opportunities
100% paid life, short and long term disability insurance
Pre-tax medical and dependent care flexible spending accounts (FSA)
Voluntary life and critical illness insurance

Teaching Strategies, LLC is committed to creating a diverse workplace and is proud to be an equal opportunity employer of Minorities, all Genders, Protected Veterans, and Individuals with Disabilities. #J-18808-Ljbffr

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