Overview

A DBA is responsible for the design and support of all Database resources in the environment, ensuring they are performing at the requirements of the business and our customers. DBA are expected to be self-driven, fast, hungry learners, especially to ElasticSearch.

What You’ll Do

• Live by and champion our values: #ownership, #empathy, #humble, #day-one.
• Support code with a focus on database efficiency and resilience.
• Collaborate with design, product and engineering teams across the company to build new features or update existing ones at scale.
• Implement new technologies to solve Recharge’s technical challenges as they arise.
• Champion good habits (development techniques, security, tech debt balance, TDD, and agile habits) within your team; improve engineering standards, tooling, and processes.
• Debug poor performance queries and SQL databases.
• Find and address performance issues throughout the applications database access layer.
• Work with engineering and product managers to understand roadmap priorities.
• Enable other engineers on your team to be successful
• You want to work remotely, but you love working closely with your teammates - collaborating to clarify, confirm, theorize, figure out, and decide on solutions to problems
• You’re passionate about  rapid prototyping and prioritizing the ones that have an immediate business impact.
• You want a fast-paced work environment.
• You are good at breaking up work so you can deliver value early, but with a clear mid and long term direction.
• You’re Self-driven; pragmatic and take strong ownership in getting things done

Who you are

• 3+ years of relevant Database design and support in fast paced environments
• Familiar with query performance and addressing issues with common SQL behaviors.
• Familiar with SQL and willing to learn Python access methods.
• Experience with RabbitMq, Kafka, or other cloud based eventing and messaging solutions
• Experience with Cloud Platforms such as GCP, AWS, or Azure
• Self driven; a passion for taking ownership of your work and delivering outcomes
• Ability to work remotely and desire to make an impact
• Experience with Kubernetes, Docker, auto-scaling, pub-sub architectures, serverless a plus
• Experience relevant to the technologies required of the role’s domain
• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience
• Medium cloud computing experience

Our Stack

GCP, Kubernetes, CloudSQL/MySQL, Helmfile, Terraform, Ansible, Docker, Nginx, Redis, Python, Flask, Jinja, ES6, Vue.js, Snowflake, Looker, Matillion