Remote Developer Experience Engineer - Cloud Infra & DB HA

Joyent; Northern (KY); Hybrid; USD 114,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, Dental, Vision

Life Insurance

401(k) with match

Employee Purchase Program

Vacation and Sick leave

Bonus eligibility

Job summary

Joyent, a Samsung subsidiary, seeks a Software Engineer (Developer Experience) to advance our cloud platform. You’ll work heavily with Terraform and Kubernetes, focusing on Infrastructure-as-Code, CI/CD, and database work including MariaDB, PostgreSQL, and TiDB in HA setups.

You’ll engage across time zones with DevOps, architects and business stakeholders, optimize queries and data protection, and help expand tooling beyond cloud-only solutions in a Linux-based environment.

Qualifications

• Experience running MariaDB HA workloads.
• Experience with running PostgreSQL in HA settings.
• Ability to recover from replication failures.
• Understanding of CI/CD pipeline concepts.
• Developer experience with Go and Python.
• Some experience with Terraform, Kubernetes, and IaC methodologies.

Responsibilities

• Contribute to HA Open Source Database solutions utilizing MariaDB, PostgreSQL, and TiDB.
• Revisit current architecture and make recommendations for improvements or gaps in the designs.
• Protect data in all environments and ensure proper backups.
• Help optimize slow queries and improve DB performance.
• Be open to expanding to Redis or FoundationDB.
• Work on Infrastructure as Code principles to automate activities.
• Handle on-call responsibilities.
• Collaborate with time zones and cross-functional teams (DevOps, architects, stakeholders).
• Avoid relying solely on cloud-based DB solutions.
• Operate in Linux environments (CentOS/RHEL and Ubuntu).
• Familiar with configuration management tools (Ansible preferred).
• Communicate effectively with team members across time zones.
• Analyze data and metrics to optimize cloud resources.
• Take ownership of projects and deliver high-quality work.
• Drive innovation and stay current with tech trends.
• Customer focus and teamwork.

Skills

Terraform

Kubernetes

Go

Python

CI/CD

IaC

On-call

MariaDB HA

Tools

MariaDB

PostgreSQL

TiDB

Ansible

Job description

Joyent, a Samsung subsidiary, seeks a Software Engineer (Developer Experience) to advance our cloud platform. You’ll work heavily with Terraform and Kubernetes, focusing on Infrastructure-as-Code, CI/CD, and database work including MariaDB, PostgreSQL, and TiDB in HA setups.

You’ll engage across time zones with DevOps, architects and business stakeholders, optimize queries and data protection, and help expand tooling beyond cloud-only solutions in a Linux-based environment.