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About the Role
You will be working with the latest versions of PostgreSQL database which is the main persistence store for our Ruby on Rails application. We are looking for a talented engineer to help us scale, optimize and shard our database infrastructure in line with the significant growth our product area is currently seeing.
This role requires a person that :
understands database performance and our current workloads
has a good knowledge of a connection management and how system resources are used on a database server
is familiar, and can suggest related tooling (including monitoring solutions)
Is capable of tuning and configuring PostgreSQL (ideally within AWS)
predicting the required capacity and helping DevOps to provision it.
We are also interested to hear about:
working with databases that cross-regions/datacenters
working with teams that use ORMs (AR in ...