Staff Database Engineer

Visa Visa · Fintech · Austin, TX

Staff Database Engineer with 5+ years of experience in managing and optimizing cloud-based database systems (AWS, Azure, GCP) including Aurora MySQL, Aurora PostgreSQL, and DynamoDB. Requires experience with Terraform, CI/CD, and 24x7 support rotation. Focus on performance, reliability, security, capacity planning, and disaster recovery.

What you'd actually do

  1. Manage, maintain, and optimize database systems hosted on Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Azure or GCP Cloud.
  2. Provide expertise in managing and administering Aurora MySQL, Aurora PostgreSQL, and DynamoDB
  3. Collaborate with the DevOps team to implement infrastructure as code using Terraform
  4. Must have experience working with Terraform and CICD implementation tools like Codefresh, Env0 or any other tool.
  5. Work with a global team, participating in a 24x7 support rotation as needed.

Skills

Required

  • 5+ years of relevant work experience with a Bachelor’s Degree or at least 2 years of work experience with an Advanced degree or 0 years of work experience with a PhD, OR 8+ years of relevant work experience
  • Cloud environments, including AWS and Azure (provisioning, operations, best practices)
  • managing and administering Aurora MySQL, Aurora PostgreSQL, and DynamoDB
  • AWS Cloud features and services relevant to database management
  • Terraform
  • DevOps principles and practices
  • trustworthiness, discipline, and the ability to work effectively in a remote environment with minimal supervision

Nice to have

  • shell scripting
  • Cockroach DB or any technology that offer data sharding
  • YAML coding

What the JD emphasized

  • 5 years of experience
  • 5+ years of relevant work experience
  • at least 2 years of work experience
  • 8+ years of relevant work experience
  • Minimum of 5 years of professional experience