Your Role:
As a Staff Database Reliability Engineer at Tenable, you will build and support a suite of data persistence systems, including ElasticSearch, Kafka, CockroachDB, and cloud services such as Amazon RDS/Aurora. You are passionate about resilient systems and are pragmatic about database engineering. You’ll support these systems in a 24x7x365 on-call rotation shared with other DBREs and SREs. Over time, you’ll find ways to automate mundane tasks and focus on building the future.
Your Opportunity:
- Embrace and champion best practices for database safety and performance
- Lead initiatives with development teams to design scalable, resilient services using cloud architecture
- Automate every aspect of datastore management that can be automated
- Define and meet service level objectives for services in your care
- Plan, architect and execute system upgrades with little to no downtime
- Collaborate with a wide variety of talented engineers to help them build reliable and scalable services
- Research and deploy best-in-class database technology as Tenable’s needs change
- Guide development teams (database users) on best practices for performance and stability of database systems
- 10+ years experience managing production databases
- The ability to orchestrate and automate complex administrative tasks
- Deep expertise in one or more of Distributed Database Technologies
- Experience in managing either Elasticsearch or Kafka
- Experience in managing relational database systems
- Strong data modeling and data structure design skills
- Familiarity in dockerizing databases and running them at scale on top kubernetes or mesos or nomad
- Experience administering databases running in the cloud. AWS preferably
- Superior written communication skills
- Passion for stable and secure systems management practices
- Can read a wide variety of programming languages and comfort with submitting pull requests
- Ability to troubleshoot complex issues whether they’re on the server or the client
- Extensive experience with load testing and tuning databases
