Staff Database Engineer at Sila Nanotechnologies in Alameda, CA
Sila Nanotechnologies
Job location
Alameda, CA, USA
Employment status
Full–time
Job details
As a database engineer on our Data Systems team, you take ownership of Sila data storage systems, ensuring the consistency, durability, availability, and performance of our on-premise and cloud-hosted databases. You work collaboratively, showing your colleagues how carefully chosen, well-configured database technologies with well-designed data models and data lifecycles enable performant and maintainable applications. You exercise pragmatic, data driven engineering judgment to prioritize your work as you continually monitor and improve our data infrastructure. RESPONSIBILITIES AND DUTIES Deliver data as a service, ensuring consistency, durability, availability, and performance of relational datastores across a wide variety of applications and services Build and maintain comprehensive database monitoring to sustain performance, prioritize improvements, and predict data growth Promote and implement a lifecycle approach to data and capacity management Participate in thorough learning-focused review of your own and others' code and configuration With colleagues in Data Systems and across other teams, as needed to understand, mitigate, remediate, and prevent operational incidents KNOWLEDGE AND SKILL REQUIREMENTS 8
years of experience administering on-premise and cloud-hosted SQL Server 2016 and 2019 databases Experience with Always On Availability Groups Experience with PowerShell Experience writing, troubleshooting, and optimizing SQL queries and stored procedures Experience with AWS technologies:
Redshift, Glue, DataLake, S3, Lambda, IIoT would be nice Experience with PostgreSQL would be nice Experience with event-driven data pipelines would be nice
Salary Range:
$150K -- $200K
Minimum Qualification
Database AdministrationEstimated Salary: $20 to $28 per hour based on qualifications
