Joining Collibra’s Product & Database Reliability Team
We are seeking an experienced and skilled Database Engineer to join our dynamic team. The ideal candidate will be responsible for ensuring the optimal performance, scalability, and reliability of our database systems. This role involves collaborating with cross-functional teams, providing technical leadership, and implementing best practices to enhance the overall efficiency of our database infrastructure.
This is a hybrid role based in our New York office. Our hybrid model means you’ll work from the office at least two days each week. This setup helps us stay connected, work more closely together, and keep making progress as a team.
Database Engineers at Collibra are responsible for
- Performance Optimization: Analyze and optimize database performance through monitoring, tuning, and query optimization to ensure optimal response times and efficient resource utilization. Collaborate with our engineering teams to brainstorm, assist with resolution.
- Right Sizing: Conduct capacity planning and forecasting to anticipate future database requirements and ensure scalability. Automate a way to do that sizing with scalability.
- Troubleshooting and Problem Resolution: Diagnose and resolve complex database issues, including performance bottlenecks, scalability problems, and data inconsistencies. Analyze observability data to identify patterns, trends, and potential performance bottlenecks.
- Collaboration: Work closely with developers, system administrators, and other stakeholders to understand application requirements and provide guidance on database-related concerns.
- Automation: Implement automation for repetitive tasks, and performance monitoring to streamline processes and enhance efficiency. Develop and maintain automated solutions for continuous workload analysis at scale, allowing for proactive identification of potential issues.
- Best practices & documentation: Best practices for developing the overall database architecture, database configurations, processes, and troubleshooting procedures.
You have
- A bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field, or equivalent related working experience is required. Advanced degree preferred.
- Proven experience as a Database Performance Engineer or similar role with at least 3-5 years of hands-on experience.
- Expertise in database management systems in PostgreSQL and proficiency in SQL.
- Basic knowledge on GraphDB, Kubernetes, Linux is a good add-on.
- Professional experience in Cloud hosting platforms like AWS and GCP, with a preference for those with managed database experience.
- Knowledge of database architecture, replication, and optimization techniques.
- This position is not eligible for visa sponsorship.
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