Sr Database Reliability Engineer

Our Database Reliability Engineers work within the Infrastructure Operations team to ensure the reliability, scalability, and performance of our data platform as we continue to scale and expand our operations.  You will collaborate with other DevOps and Site Reliability Engineers to architect, design, deploy, migrate, monitor, scale, and support our database infrastructure.  We are looking for teammates who have a deep understanding of databases as well as SRE concepts like SLIs, SLOs, error budgets, four golden signals monitoring, and incident response.

What you’ll do:

• Help design and implement the next generation of PrizePicks’ data infrastructure using PostgreSQL-compatible cloud databases
• Work with peers to roll out changes to our production environment and help mitigate database-related production incidents
• Make monitoring and alerting alert on symptoms and SLOs, and not on outages
• Provide database expertise to engineering teams (for example through reviews of database migrations, queries and performance optimizations)
• Work on automation of database infrastructure and help engineering succeed by providing self-service tools
• Work closely with security to implement security controls to ensure enforcement of policies and procedures and advise on best practices
• Deeply analyze platform performance and find areas to improve speed and scale
• Participate in a 24/7 on-call rotation

What you have:

• 5+ years of relevant work experience
• Extensive experience in database management and infrastructure design with PostgreSQL
• Expert knowledge and experience in delivering cloud database technologies at scale
• Strong knowledge of PostgreSQL internals and best practices design, scaling, and reliability patterns
• Unwavering commitment to automating all-the-things
• Experience working in a startup environment at a fast pace with a distributed team
• Extensive datacenter experience a big plus
• Proven track record of building large, geographically distributed scalable infrastructure in a programmatic way
• Passion for technology and collaboration
• Extensive Linux experience
• Python, Ruby, or Go expertise 
• Experience with Terraform
• Experience in working with fundamental cloud technologies like virtualization and TCP/IP networking and abstractions (not just AWS, GCP or Azure)

Where you’ll live:

• Anywhere in the US is fine but Atlanta would be preferred. 

Benefits you’ll receive:

In addition to your great compensation package, we’ll shower you with perks including: 

• Company-subsidized medical, dental, & vision plans 
• 401(k) plan with company match
• Stock options and bi-annual bonus
• Uncapped PTO to encourage a healthy work/life balance (2-week MINIMUM required!)
• Generous paid leave programs, including 16-week paid parental leave and disability benefits
• Workplace flexibility and modern work schedules focused on getting the job done, not hours clocked
• Company-wide in-person events and team outings
• Lifestyle enhancement program
• Company equipment provided (Windows & Mac options)
• Annual performance reviews with opportunities for growth and career development