Database Reliability Engineer

5+ years of relevant work experience
Extensive experience in database management and infrastructure design with PostgreSQL
Expert knowledge and experience in delivering cloud database technologies at scale
Strong knowledge of PostgreSQL internals and best practices design, scaling, and reliability patterns
Unwavering commitment to automating all-the-things
Experience working in a startup environment at a fast pace with a distributed team
Extensive datacenter experience a big plus
Proven track record of building large, geographically distributed scalable infrastructure in a programmatic way
Passion for technology and collaboration
Extensive Linux experience
Python, Ruby, or Go expertise
Experience with Terraform
Experience in working with fundamental cloud technologies like virtualization and TCP/IP networking and abstractions (not just AWS, GCP or Azure)

Help design and implement the next generation of PrizePicks’ data infrastructure using PostgreSQL-compatible cloud databases
Work with peers to roll out changes to our production environment and help mitigate database-related production incidents
Make monitoring and alerting alert on symptoms and SLOs, and not on outages
Provide database expertise to engineering teams (for example through reviews of database migrations, queries and performance optimizations)
Work on automation of database infrastructure and help engineering succeed by providing self-service tools
Work closely with security to implement security controls to ensure enforcement of policies and procedures and advise on best practices
Deeply analyze platform performance and find areas to improve speed and scale
Participate in a 24/7 on-call rotation