At Justworks, you’ll enjoy a welcoming and casual environment, great benefits, wellness program offerings, company retreats, and the ability to interact with and learn from leaders in the startup community. We work hard and care about our most prized asset - our people.
We’re helping businesses get off the ground by enabling them to focus on running their business. We solve HR issues. We’re data-driven and never stop iterating. If you’d like to work in a supportive, entrepreneurial environment, are interested in building something meaningful and having fun while doing it, we’d love to hear from you.
We're united by shared goals and shared motivations at Justworks. These are best summed up in our company values, which are reflected in our product and in our team.
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If this sounds like you, you’ll fit right in.
Department
Engineering
Who You Are
You enjoy working with databases and will lead the managing and scaling of Justwork’s datastores in order for data to be accessed in a performant, reliable and safe manner. In addition to keeping our database systems running smoothly 24/7/365, you will work on improving the tooling, orchestration, monitoring surrounding our datastores as well as developing a strategy for future growth. You will bring your expertise to the SRE and Infrastructure teams as well as the rest of our engineering teams.
Your Success ProfileWhat You Will Work On
- Define and implement a strategy for scaling our systems and plan for growth by delivering production solutions that scale, identifying automation points, and proactively proposing ideas on how to improve efficiency
- Address database-related related problems; pursue short and long term problem resolution, drive root cause analysis (RCA) and risk management processes
- Review and tune databases for optimal system performance including modifying parameters to improve throughput and effectively utilize system resources
- Participate in after-hours support and may be required to perform production releases or maintenance operations during non-peak hours
- Work with infrastructure engineers to define and execute backup and restore testing, as a part of disaster recovery plan
- Work closely with all operational groups to ensure SOX compliance
- Work on the database reliability and performance of our datastores
- Improve our observability, alerting and monitoring
- Help mitigate database related incidents
- Provide support and help debug database issues
How You Will Do Your Work
As a DBRE, how results are achieved is paramount for your success and ultimately result in our success as an organization. In this role, your foundational knowledge, skills, abilities and personal attributes are anchored in the following:
- Good judgement - the exercise of critical thinking, analyzing and assessing problems and implications, identifying patterns, making connections of underlying issues, understanding risks and developing mitigation strategies, and taking ownership of the outcome
- Resourcefulness - taking a can-do approach, even in the face of obstacles and constraints by assessing what’s in front of you and effectively and efficiently optimizing what you have, whether it's working on something new or thinking about how to do something better
- Teamwork and communication - putting our collective best together through documentation, collaboration, relationship-building, listening, empathy, recruiting, and evangelism
- Influence and leadership - fostering a community of knowledge-sharing, collaboration, mentorship, and forward-thinking
- Skills and knowledge - the capacity to actively learn and apply specific domain knowledge, know-how, and best practices to continually enhance and improve
In addition, all Justworkers focus on aligning their behaviors to our core values known as COGIS. It stands for:
- Camaraderie - Day to day you can be seen working together toward a higher purpose. You like to have fun. You’re an active listener, treat people respectfully, and have a strong desire to know and help others.
- Openness - Your default is to be open. You're willing to share information, understand other perspectives, and consider new possibilities. You’re curious, ask open questions, and are receptive to thoughts and feedback from others.
- Grit - You demonstrate grit by having the courage to commit and persevere. You’re committed, earnest, and dive in to get the job done well with a positive attitude.
- Integrity - Simply put, do what you say and say what you'll do. You’re honest and forthright, have a strong moral compass, and strive to match your words with your actions while leading by example.
- Simplicity - Be like Einstein: “Everything should be made as simple as possible, but no simpler.”
Qualifications
- Minimum 5 years of professional hands on experience with database systems, in particular MySQL and PostgreSQL
- Experience supporting high-availability DB clusters, including replication/sharding, and zero-downtime migrations
- Strong communication skills with the ability to grasp and explain complex concepts to both technical and non-technical people
- Self-motivated and self-accountable for delivery and adherence to standards and delivery timelines
- Familiarity with working on Cloud Platforms such as Amazon Web Services
- Familiarity with infrastructure automation tools (Puppet, Ansible, Terraform)
- Highly fluent in SQL and Python, with firm understanding of different language paradigms
- Experience with Ruby/Rails or Golang is a plus
- Have solid knowledge of the internals of MySQL
- Have strong programming skills
- Strong experience with Linux systems and shell scripting
- Knowledge of caching technologies (e.g. memcached, redis) is a plus
- Experience with governing data security and compliance preferred
Technologies Used
- Ruby on Rails, Golang, Python, MySQL, PostgreSQL, AWS, Git, Memcache, Redis
- Docker, Terraform, Puppet, CircleCI, DataDog
The base wage range for this position based in our New York City Office is targeted at $115,000.00 to $155,000.00 per year.
Actual compensation is based on multiple factors that are unique to each candidate, including and not limited to skill set, level of relevant experience, and specific work location. Salary ranges for positions based in other locations may differ based on the cost of labor in that location.
For more information about Justworks’ Total Reward Philosophy, including all of the perks and benefits we are proud to offer our team members, please visit Total Rewards @ Justworks.
Diversity At Justworks
Justworks is committed to maintaining a workplace where diversity of identity, culture, and life experience is the norm and is celebrated authentically and respected consistently. Diversity in our work, our people, and our product drives creativity and innovation, entrepreneurial leadership and integrity, competitiveness, and collaboration throughout our business and in the market. We depend on our differences to make our team stronger, our workplace more dynamic, and our product accessible to all of our customers.
We’re proud to be an equal opportunity employer open to all qualified applicants regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital or familial status, disability, pregnancy, gender identity or expression, veteran status, genetic information, or any other legally protected status. Justworks is fully dedicated to providing necessary support to candidates with disabilities who may require reasonable accommodations. We also provide reasonable accommodations to employees based on their sincerely held religious beliefs, as well as for other covered reasons consistent with applicable federal, state, and local laws. If you're in need of a reasonable accommodation, please reach out to us at accommodations@justworks.com. Your comfort and success matter to us, and we're here to ensure an inclusive experience.
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