Sr. Software Engineer - Postgres Specialist

The Gopuff engineering team is building solutions to dramatically change the way people purchase their daily goods. We provide the modern-day solution to meet customer’s immediate everyday needs with products ranging from snacks and ice cream to household goods and beer, at the click of a button. We are seeking a Senior Engineer focused on Platform, with extensive Postgres experience, who is excited about creating innovative solutions to make life effortless for our customers! The kind of people we are looking for want to build optimized routing systems to efficiently deliver to our customers, create an end to end shopping experience that will delight our customers, devise warehouse management systems that enable us to always fulfill our customers’ needs, or design mobile and web applications that are joyful to use. In short, we are looking for people who are eager to help create the future of Gopuff!
Your primary responsibilities will be to architect, build and continually improve the automation that lies at the intersection between infrastructure and application. A commitment to collaborative problem solving, elegant design, and a quality product is essential.  We are biased towards action and a feature is considered ‘Done’ once it is shipped and confidently running in production.

Responsibilities:

• Serve as the in-house domain expert for questions around Postgres scalability and stability.
• Develop tools to maintain, upgrade, and monitor our Postgres servers.
• Engage in and improve the whole lifecycle of an application from inception and design, through deployment, operation and refinement.
• Support applications before they go live through activities such as system design consulting, developing software platforms and frameworks, capacity planning and launch reviews.
• Maintain applications once they are live by measuring and monitoring availability, latency and overall system health.
• Creating libraries and tooling to enable seamless integration of services we use - Azure, Datadog, PagerDuty.
• Scale systems sustainably through mechanisms like automation, and evolve systems by pushing for changes that improve reliability and velocity.
• Identifying and building solutions that raise the level of quality across an organization of 200+ engineers - from well-supported build pipelines to best in-class observability.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Knowledge of containerization and container orchestration technologies such as Docker and Kubernetes (K8s strongly preferred).
• Public cloud experience in a production setting (Azure preferred).
• Experience in a production setting automating infrastructure provisioning in a public cloud, Terraform preferred.
• Experience with message based, async processing.
• Experience with microservices and /or distributed systems.

Minimum Qualifications:

• Bachelor degree in Computer Science (or related field).
• 5+ years of production experience.
• 3+ years maintaining complex Postgres deployments in a high volume, zero-downtime environment.
• Ability to program (structured and OO) with one or more high level languages, such as Python, Java, Go, C/C++, and JavaScript.
• Extensive experience using one or more infrastructure as code tools to provision stateful systems.
• Strong knowledge of UNIX and TCP/IP and HTTP fundamentals.
• Experience designing secure systems from both an infrastructure and platform perspective.
• Experience architecting highly available systems that utilize load balancing and horizontal scalability.
• Proficiency with modern web, frontend and server, and/or cloud applications.
• Solid grasp of data structures, algorithms and databases (ex: SQL, MongoDB).
• Use of Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery. The tool is less important - experiences and a mindset to try/execute CI/CD pipelines at scale is key, in a GitOps deployment model.

Location:

• This role is preferring candidates located in the following locations:
• Boston, MA.
• Philadelphia, PA.
• Miami, FL.
• New York, NY.
• Washington, DC.
• Seattle, WA.
• San Francisco, CA.

Compensation:

• Gopuff pays employees based on market pricing and pay may vary depending on your location. The salary range below reflects what we’d reasonably expect to pay candidates. A candidate’s starting pay will be determined based on job-related skills, experience, qualifications, work location, and market conditions. These ranges may be modified in the future. For additional information on this role’s compensation package, please reach out to the designated recruiter for this role.
• Salary Range (varies based on a cost of labor index for geographic area within United States): $148,200 - $235,500.

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