Data Platform Engineer, Foundations

Description

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• Operate and support GameChanger database systems currently running on AWS Aurora
• Partner with teams across the organizations to drive performance, security, scalability, availability, reliability, and observability for consumer-facing databases.
• Design frameworks and maintain the general ecosystem around relational and non-relational databases, including schema management, monitoring, permissions, service discovery integration, and more.
• Design, automate, and document database operations.
• Diagnose and effectively communicate the root cause of database issues
• Apply inspection/debugging techniques to metrics/telemetry, logs, events, and other information sources to diagnose operational issues
• Participate in incident response activities
• Document and present incident postmortems
• Serve on an on-call rotation to address high-priority issues as they arise

Requirements

• BS in Computer Science, Data Science, or equivalent experience
• 2+ years of professional software development, site reliability, or data engineering experience
• Strong CS and data engineering fundamentals
• Proven fluency in SQL and a development language such as Typescript
• Query optimization through application implementation and understanding of query plans
• Understanding of ETL/ELT pipelines and Data Warehousing design, tooling, and support
• Experience working with cloud data technology (Aurora Postgres, Snowflake, DocumentDB, DynamoDB, etc)
• Understanding of different data formatting (JSON, CSV, XML) and data storage techniques (3NF, EAV Model, Star/Snowflake Schema, Data Lake/Mesh)
• Experience working with infrastructure or configuration as-code (IAC) frameworks (Terraform)
• Strong communication skills in writing and conversation

Benefits

• Work remotely throughout the US* or from our well-furnished, modern office in Manhattan, NY.
• Unlimited vacation policy.
• Paid volunteer opportunities.
• WFH stipend – $500 annually to make your WFH situation comfortable.
• Snack stipend – $60 monthly to have snacks shipped to your home office.
• Full health benefits – medical, dental, vision, prescription, FSA/HRA, and coverage for family/dependents.
• Life insurance