Senior Database Engineer (Remote)

Cisco; Chicago (IL); Remote; USD 130,000 - 185,000; Full time

Job summary

Cisco Meraki is seeking a Senior Database Engineer who will play a crucial role in managing SQL databases and ensuring optimal performance. This position requires deep knowledge of PostgreSQL, system engineering skills, and a passion for data to improve operational efficiency. Successful candidates will work closely with engineering teams to implement best practices for database management, contributing to innovative projects in a flexible and collaborative environment.

Benefits

Fully-stocked kitchens

Delicious catered meals

Paid time off to volunteer

Opportunities for professional growth

Candid feedback culture

Qualifications

• Deep experience in PostgreSQL infrastructure.
• Experience with mission-critical production databases.
• Strong automation and database administration skills.

Responsibilities

• Coordinate, scale, secure, and maintain on-prem databases.
• Administer and secure PostgreSQL infrastructure.
• Guide engineers on performance tuning and query optimization.

Skills

PostgreSQL

Automation

Database performance tuning

Scripting (shell, Python, Perl)

Systems engineering

Education

Degree in Computer Science or related field

Tools

Liquibase

Job description

This range is provided by Cisco. Your actual pay will be based on your skills and experience — talk with your recruiter to learn more.

Base pay range

$130,900.00/yr - $184,600.00/yr

Please apply here to be considered for the role: https://grnh.se/2684baa31us

Applications are accepted until further notice

At Cisco Meraki, we know that technology can connect, empower, and drive us. Our mission is to simplify technology so our customers can focus on what's most important to them: their students, patients, customers, and businesses. We’re making networking easier, faster, and intelligent with technology that simply works.

The modern world runs on the internet, and the internet cannot exist without its underlying infrastructure. Meraki makes setting up, leading, and maintaining that infrastructure easier than it has ever been before. Meraki enables connectivity everywhere from neighborhood cafes to education institutions to global hospitality groups operating thousands of sites!

About The Role

In near real time, Cisco Meraki collects massive amounts of data from its devices all over the world. We write nearly 7 million data points each second globally every day. This data, helps power our Dashboard and gives our customers insight into the state of their networks. As a member of the Data Infrastructure team, you will coordinate, scale, secure, and maintain our on-prem relational and non-relational database systems. You will work with all Engineering teams throughout Cisco Meraki guiding them towards best practices to meet the data requirements for their use cases.

What you will do:

• Work alongside our SRE teams to plan, administer, maintain and secure our PostgreSQL infrastructure across our backend
• Perform operational DBA duties: installation, database upgrades, patching, implement backup/recovery and monitoring procedures, capacity planning, and site failover/switchover
• Ensure systems are running at the highest possible performance level by analyzing and tuning queries
• Guide engineers on performance tuning and optimization, query optimization, index tuning, caching, buffer tuning, etc.
• Review database changes requested by engineering teams for impacts to database designs, design standards, data conversions, naming standards, and documentation
• Learn about the data and it’s use to make recommendations for improvements in how it is stored and processed
• Work with Data Engineering team to design, build and maintain ETL pipelines for PG
• Develop procedures and scripts for data migration
• Automate schema management with tools like Liquibase, ActiveRecords, etc.
• Support architectural changes with new database environments in both public and private clouds
  
  

About You

• Deep knowledge and experience designing and maintaining PostgreSQL infrastructure On-prem and in cloud
• Experience building and maintaining sophisticated mission-critical production database systems
• Experience analyzing issues holistically, from the application tier through the database, down to the storage
• Proven track record of automating tasks
• Working knowledge of relational database internals (locking, consistency, serialization, recovery paths)
• Systems engineering experience, including Linux performance, memory management, I/O tuning, configuration, security, networking, etc.
• Working knowledge of at least one scripting language (shell, Python, Perl)
  
  

Nice to have

• Experience with NoSQL databases, memory stores e.g. Redis
• Experience migrating database from on-prem to cloud and vice versa
• Experience with Timeseries databases
• Experience with messaging queues
  
  

We encourage you to drop us a line even if you don’t have all the points above. That's a lot of different areas of responsibility! We will help you pick them up because we believe that phenomenal engineers come from diverse backgrounds .

Life at Cisco Meraki

We are passionate about building real products that our customers love . We are confident you will love it here.

As a Cisco Meraki employee you can expect:

• An encouraging and lively environment and a team that values your contributions. The Backend Group is called the Exploding Whales. Interested to learn why? Just message us.
• A lot of opportunities for professional and personal growth via employee-led groups. Check out one of our groups — Women of Meraki on Twitter and Instagram .
• Actionable and candid feedback on a periodic basis following Radical Candor .
• Delicious catered meals every day and fully-stocked kitchens and all you can eat snacks.
• Paid time off to volunteer, and much more.
  
  

Cisco is an Affirmative Action and Equal Opportunity Employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, national origin, genetic information, age, disability, veteran status, or any other legally protected basis. Cisco will consider for employment, on a case by case basis, qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.

At Cisco Meraki, we’re challenging the status quo with the power of diversity, inclusion, and collaboration. When we connect different perspectives, we can imagine new possibilities, encourage innovation, and release the full potential of our people. We’re building an employee experience that includes appreciation, belonging, growth, and purpose for everyone.

Please apply here to be considered for the role: https://grnh.se/2684baa31us

Seniority level

• Seniority level

  Not Applicable

Employment type

• Employment type

  Full-time

Job function

• Job function

  Information Technology and Engineering

• Industries

  Computer Hardware Manufacturing, Software Development, and Computer Networking Products

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