Senior Database Reliability Engineer
Job Description
We’re looking for a Senior Database Reliability Engineer to join Procore’s Product & Technology Team. Procore software solutions aim to improve the lives of everyone in construction and the people within Product & Technology are the driving force behind our innovative, top-rated global platform. We’re a customer-centric group that encompasses engineering, product, product design and data, security and business systems.
This position is part of Procore’s Data Division. In this role, you’ll help build Procore’s next- construction data platform for others to build upon, including Procore developers, analysts, partners, and customers.
As a Senior Database Reliability Engineer, you’ll partner with other engineers and product managers across Product & Technology to develop data platform capabilities that enable the storage and management of data for use in transactional and analytical applications. To be successful in this role, you’re passionate about distributed data storage systems on the cloud with experience in non-relational (NoSQL) or relational (SQL) databases. If you’re an engineer comfortable and excited about building our next- data platform and translating problems into pragmatic solutions that open up the boundaries of technical possibilities—we’d love to hear from you!
This position can be based in our Austin, TX office. We’re looking for someone to join us immediately.
What you’ll do:
Participate in the design and implementation of our next- data platform for the construction industry, primarily focused on building and supporting distributed NoSQL and SQL databases
Support our engineering team in all phases of the software development lifecycle, including requirements gathering, functional and technical design, development, testing and roll-out, and support
Help identify and propose solutions for technical gaps in our data platform by running proof of concepts and experiments
Work alongside our Product, UX, and IT teams, leveraging your experience and expertise in NoSQL and SQL database technologies to influence our product roadmap, developing innovative solutions that add additional capabilities to our tools
Stay up to date with the latest data technology trends
What we’re looking for:
Experience operating RDBMS databases (PostgreSQL, MySQL, etc.) and streaming technologies (Kafka) is a nice-to-have
Experience provisioning and operating NoSQL databases at scale like Elasticsearch, Elastic Cache, DynamoDB, Neo4j, Mongo, Cassandra, etc.
5+ years of experience as a DBA/DRE in at least one of the database technologies cited above.
5+ years of experience building and operating cloud-based, highly available, distributed, and scalable databases with large amounts of data
5+ years of experience and proficiency in managing infrastructure as code, such as Terraform or CloudFormation
5+ years of Experience with AWS (RDS, EC2, S3, IAM etc.)
Experience and proficiency in shell scripting or bash
Experience with monitoring and alerting systems
AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Associate is nice to have
Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science or a related field is , or comparable work experience
Strong passion for learning, always open to new technologies and ideas