Staff Database Engineer

Staff Database Engineer, Ripple Labs, Inc., San Francisco, CA. Develop distributed database platform infrastructure that enables banks to settle cross-border payments to create the Internet of Value. Partner with stakeholders across the company for product development, business strategy, inter dependencies, availability, security, performance, scalability, cost optimization requirements and customer servicing. Responsible for designing, developing, managing and scaling enterprise level database infrastructure in order to power high-impact initiatives across the broader organization. Design, implement, and maintain complex relational database systems with Cloud Native principles and best practices to ensure highly available, secure, performant and scalable database systems. Plan and deploy database infrastructure build out, perform upgrades and migrations. Act as a resident expert in database performance, scalability, complex query tuning, monitoring and incident response. Collaborate with multiple functional teams to coordinate database changes adhering to best practices in an agile development environment. Contribute to infrastructure changes in AWS with deep understanding of AWS services. Manage complex data replication environments serving batch as well as real time use cases. Engage in on-call for production systems and take action for incoming pagers and alerts. Independently troubleshoot incoming production and pre-production issues and provide timely resolution. Contribute to major system upgrades, deployment automation, monitoring enhancements and Production changes. Create operational playbooks, contribute to how-to articles, and gain domain knowledge to drive changes in the team. Participate in developing monitoring dashboards and alerts, to improve our ability to proactively analyze and detect problems impacting stability of the application. Responsible for tuning and configuring databases as well as building tools and scripts to monitor, troubleshoot and automate our systems. Coordinate with customer success and developer teams to triage, escalate, and ensure timely resolution of any incidents. Telecommuting permitted 100%– employee may live anywhere in the U.S

MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS: 

Must have a Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or a related field plus eight (8) years of database design and/or enterprise class operational experience (of which five (5) must be progressive, post-baccalaureate experience). Or a Master’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or a related field plus six (6) years of database design and/or enterprise class operational experience.

Of the required experience, must have six (6) years of experience in one or more of the following (which may be gained concurrently):

• PostgreSQL, SQL Server, Oracle, MySQL, Aurora PostgreSQL, Aurora MySQL, or SQL & NoSQL database technologies
• Database development and/or systems engineering

Of the required experience, must have 1 year of experience in each of the following (which may be gained concurrently):

• Database migration technologies (AWS DMS, Goldengate, Streaming/Logical Replication, or Binary Replication)
• Database performance tuning, monitoring, or troubleshooting
• Programming languages (Python, Ruby, Java, or Perl)
• Scripting languages (Bash, shell scripting, batch scripting, or PowerShell)
• Configuration management and/or provisioning tools (Ansible, Chef, Puppet, Terraform, or CloudFormation)
• CI/CD technologies (Jenkins or GitLab)
• Version control tools (Jenkins, GitHub, Flyway, or Liquibase)

For positions that will be based in CA, the annual salary range for this position is $196,970 - $197,000. Actual salaries may vary based on numerous factors including, among other things, an individual applicant’s experience and qualifications for the position.

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WHO WE ARE:

Ripple is doing for value what the internet did for information: enabling its instant and seamless flow around the world. We call this the Internet of Value (IoV). Using blockchain and cryptocurrency technology, Ripple is dedicated to creating powerful gains in financial efficiency, equity and inclusion. In addition, Ripple is developing and enabling the future use cases that will catalyze the new digital economy for governments, businesses and consumers.

Ripple has offices in Bangalore, Dubai, Dublin, London, Miami, Mumbai, New York, Reykjavík, San Francisco, São Paulo, Shanghai, Singapore, Sydney, Toronto, and Washington, D.C.

WHAT WE OFFER – The resources and support to be your best at work and beyond:

Do Your Best Work

• The opportunity to build in a fast-paced start-up environment with experienced industry leaders
• A learning environment where you can dive deep into the latest t