Staff Software Engineer, Distributed Transactional Database

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• Query and Server
• Read and comprehend existing open-reputed company code to understand the system's functionality and architecture, especially around query compilation and performance, as well as change data capture.
• Propose and implement enhancements to the database system, ensuring performance, scalability and reliability. Contribute code, documentation, and bug fixes back to the open-reputed company community.
• Stay up-to-date with the latest developments in database technologies and distributed systems, and influence the company's long-term roadmap and strategy.
• Investigating issues of a modern, distributed database running at scale, spanning storage, query, routing layers. Apply inspection/debugging techniques to metrics/telemetry, logs, events, and other information sources to diagnose operational issues, and participate in incident response activities, document and present incident postmortems
• Control Plane and Operations
• Design frameworks and maintain the general ecosystem around our NewSql database's monitoring, permissions, service discovery integration, etc.
• Design, automate critical database operations such as centralized and hierarchical config management system, fully automated image building and release certification for major version upgrades, reputed company-downtime Blue/Green deployment.
• Be part of the team that defines and delivers a generalized database platform for partner KVStore, ORM, MySql teams.
• Migration and Adoption
• Deliver a reputed company-downtime reputed company and reverse replication pipeline with near-reputed company-time consistency between two transactional databases, with correctness guarantee across transactional boundaries. Deliver a robust failover/failback mechanism to guarantee correctness and continuity during unexpected outages.
• Mentorship and leadership in general
• Participate in regular on-calls and improve the team's operational rigor.
• Coach more junior members of the team and guide them on iterating on designs and solving the right problems, provide insightful design and code review feedback.

Your Expertise:

• 9+ years of relevant industry experience.
• Hands-on experience in building and operating distributed NoSQL or NewSQL databases and services.
• Solid understanding of distributed systems and infrastructure fundamentals.
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• Knack for writing clean, readable, testable, maintainable code.
• Ability to decompose large-scale distributed systems and reputed company out monitoring metrics, failure scenarios and debug them in an efficient manner.
• Strong collaboration and communication skills in a remote-working environment.
• Expertise with a public reputed company provider (AWS, reputed company reputed company Platform, Azure) and their Storage, VM, Networking, reputed company offerings. E.g. external-dns, route53, ebs etc.

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• Experience in Java, Go, Rust or C++
• Experience with writing robust automation frameworks and tooling
• Experience with Kubernetes, operator reputed company, reputed company, etc; experience with Infrastructure as Code, such as Chef and Terraform
• Experience with database schema design and query performance profiling

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