Senior Database Reliability Engineer

Penn Interactive; United States; Remote; USD 150,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive compensation package

Education and conference reimburse—m

Job summary

PENN Interactive is seeking a Senior Database Reliability Engineer to join our Engineering team. You will design and administer databases, tackle production issues, and ensure availability across AWS and GCP cloud environments using Terraform and GitOps.

You will work with PostgreSQL, Kafka, ETLs, and CDC, and collaborate across agile teams to maintain performance and reliability of our cloud-native platforms on Kubernetes.

Qualifications

• 5+ years hands-on Database Engineering (Postgres required).
• 5+ years working in an AWS or GCP cloud environment.
• 3+ years of high-level programming in Python or Go.
• Strong database architecture experience.
• Experience with applications requiring compliance audits.
• Experience with production support issues and remediation.
• Experience building infrastructure as code via IaC (Terraform).
• Ability to work with K8S operators (Zalando and CNPG).
• Experience with Postgres, Kafka, ETLs and CDC.

Responsibilities

• Evaluate current database architectures and suggest improvements for performance and availability.
• Support engineering by responding to database outages and triaging issues.
• Evaluate schemas, partitions, views and queries to improve performance.
• Manage replication and ensure resilience with existing observability tooling.
• Make design decisions for AWS and GCP database direction.
• Automate deployment/creation using Terraform and GitOps.
• Build a reusable database design architecture for new installations.

Skills

Kubernetes

PostgreSQL

Kafka

ETL

CDC

Python

Go

AWS

GCP

Terraform

Tools

Terraform

Kubernetes

CNPG

Job description

PENN Entertainment, Inc. is North America’s leading provider of integrated entertainment, sports content, and casino gaming experiences. From casinos and racetracks to online gaming, sports betting and entertainment content, we deliver the experiences people want, how and where they want them.

We’re always on the lookout for those who are passionate about creating and delivering cutting-edge online gaming and sports media products. Whether it’s through Hollywood Casino , theScore Bet Sportsbook , or theScore media app, we’re excited to push the boundaries of what’s possible. These state-of-the-art platforms are powered by proprietary in-house technology, a key component of PENN’s omnichannel gaming and entertainment strategy.

When you join PENN Entertainment’s digital team, you’ll not only work on these cutting-edge platforms through theScore and PENN Interactive, but you’ll also be part of a company that truly cares about your career growth. We’re committed to supporting you as you expand your skills and explore new opportunities.

With locations throughout North America, you can build a future at PENN Entertainment wherever you are. If you want to challenge conventions in gaming, media and entertainment, we want to talk to you.

About the Role & Team

We are looking for a Senior Database Reliability Engineer to join our thriving Engineering team, to work cross-functionally across engineering, focusing on the architecture for optimal platform performance and be at the front lines, designing/administering databases, tackling database production issues and utilizing the latest and greatest cloud technologies. We’re looking for excited individuals who want to be immersed in our Cloud Native (K8) platforms. Using DevOps principles and orchestration with a focus on availability, reliability and durability.

About the Work

As a key member of our Database Engineering team dealing with Site Reliability you will:

• Evaluate current database architectures and suggest improvements to maintain performance and availability
• Work within agile scrum & kanban to foster Engineering and support efforts
• Support the engineering organization by responding to database outages, helping triage, and remediating any database-related issues
• Support the engineering organization by evaluating database schemas, partitions, views and queries, implementing changes to increase database performance
• Manage and maintain replication between databases, ensuring resilience and the ability to recover from faults (observability platform in place already)
• Product choice decisions, design methods, and modelling for AWS and GCP database direction
• DB architecture to support our business continuity plan, backups, compute, network and storage development, using Terraform to automate deployment/creation leveraging GitOps
• Build and develop a common database design architecture that can be easily replicated for new database installations
• Other duties as required

About You

• Ability to work with K8S operators. Specifically Zalando and CNPG
• Experience with Postgres, Kafka (other distributed event streaming systems), ETLs and CDC
• 5+ years of hands on Database Engineering (Postgres required)
• 5+ years working within an AWS or GCP cloud environment
• 3+ years of high-level programming experience in Python or Go
• Strong database architecture experience
• Experience working with applications requiring compliance audits
• Experience with production support issues, and how to remediate in a timely manner
• Experience building infrastructure as code via IaC (preferably terraform)

What We Offer

• Competitive compensation package.
• Fun, relaxed work environment.
• Education and conference reimbursements.

Salary Range

$150,000 - $190,000 USD

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