Staff Database Engineer

Job Title:

Staff Database Engineer

About Skyhigh Security:

Skyhigh Security is a dynamic, fast-paced, cloud company that is a leader in the security industry.  Our mission is to protect the world’s data, and because of this, we live and breathe security. We value learning at our core, underpinned by openness and transparency. 

Since 2011, organizations have trusted us to provide them with a complete, market-leading security platform built on a modern cloud stack. Our industry-leading suite of products radically simplifies data security through easy-to-use, cloud-based, Zero Trust solutions that are managed in a single dashboard, powered by hundreds of employees across the world. With offices in Santa Clara, Aylesbury, Paderborn, Bengaluru, Sydney, Tokyo and more, our employees are the heart and soul of our company. 

Skyhigh Security Is more than a company; here, when you invest your career with us, we commit to investing in you. We embrace a hybrid work model, creating the flexibility and freedom you need from your work environment to reach your potential. From our employee recognition program, to our ‘Blast Talks' learning series, and team celebrations (we love to have fun!), we strive to be an interactive and engaging place where you can be your authentic self. 

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Role Overview:

We are hiring for a DevOps DBA Engineer who will improve and maintain software development and database design, test and deliver infrastructure and services.

About the Role:

• You will work closely with the development teams, follow DevOps practices, automate infrastructure activities, documents standards and procedures. 

  • Design and manage PostgreSQL (self hosted and Aurora), and Greenplum, and similar DB clusters, ensuring high availability and disaster recovery resilience.

• Optimize the usage of public cloud based resources to ensure cost-effective and efficient use.

• Monitor and maintain database systems in cloud environments and on-prem, ensuring data security and availability. 

• Drawing on your creative nature, you will drive the existing automation frameworks forward to benefit automation across multiple products, and may be asked to create new frameworks depending on need.

• Provide visibility on application health by defining dashboards, metric/log aggregation mechanisms. 

• Ensure that the database architecture complies with organizational security policies and best practices.

• Implement database  encryption, user management, and access controls.

• Ability to learn to use new tools, and quickly become a subject matter expert. 

• Improving site performance, monitoring and overall stability of our infrastructure. 

• Evaluate new technologies and provide proof-of-concept 

• Additional duties as assigned 

About you:

• Strong knowledge of Linux systems administration and architecture. 

• Experience with configuring, managing and supporting virtualized environments. 

• Experience with continuous integration and deployment automation tools such as Jenkins, Ansible, GitHub Actions, ArgoCD. 

• Experience with SQL and NoSQL databases. 

• In-depth knowledge of SQL, PL/pgSQL, and advanced PostgreSQL features like triggers, stored procedures, and replication.

• Familiarity with AWS services (Aurora, RDS, EC2, S3, etc.) and cloud database management practices.

• Expertise in tuning PostgreSQL databases for high performance, including memory usage optimization, connection pooling, and query optimization.

• Proficiency in analyzing and resolving database performance issues, especially in high-traffic and high-volume production environments.

• Analyse slow-running or poor performing queries and optimize performance through proper indexing, query restructuring, or caching mechanisms.

• Extensive scripting experience, including extract, transform, and