Responsible for managing database infrastructure, performing proactive adjustments, automating deployments, and facilitating regional releases. Requires experience with MySQL, MongoDB, and AWS.
🚀 We’re on a mission to be an everyday entertainment platform for everyone!
Partnered with some of the World’s greatest Champions including Real Madrid FC, Michael Essien and Eder Militao, we’re on the lookout for some Champions of our own to be a part of some of the biggest, most exciting and most successful Online Gaming Brands in the World.
Sporty, Sportybet and SportyTV are the backbone of the Sporty Group portfolio. With hundreds of millions of visitors Globally, if you click ‘apply’, you’ll have the opportunity to be a part of something absolutely massive.
About the role
With tens of millions of visitors every week, we strive to be the best in the industry for our users. You’ll be responsible for taking ownership of our existing and new database infrastructure for multiple platforms and facilitating releases into new regions. We wrote our systems from scratch about 4 years ago, so you’ll be working with the latest technology and won’t have to worry about decades old technologies. There’s also freedom to research and implement new technologies into our stack as you and the team see fit.
Your Day-to-day
- Take ownership and responsibility for our existing and new database infrastructure
- Slow query monitoring and database system capacity proactive adjustment
- Automating deployments, config management, and building infrastructure with Terraform
- Enhance our existing dashboards as well as develop new dashboards and alert mechanisms
- As we deploy into new regions you’ll be facilitating the database side
- On call responsibilities on a rotating pattern
Our stack: MySQL, MongoDB, AWS EC2, Cloudwatch, RDS, Redshift, Grafana, Prometheus, Terraform, Python, Shell etc
You should apply if you have
- 4+ years experience tackling and managing advanced MySQL and MongoDB problems
- Hands on experience with AWS RDS, Redshift
- Delivering quality documentation and operational runbooks
- Open mind and willing to take on new challenges in a rapidly growing organization
- Sporty is an English speaking working environment, so we are looking for English speakers
Our Interview Process
Our interview process involves 3 main stages:
- Hackerrank test (Maximum of 90 minutes)
- A call with a member of our Talent team
- Final interview with our Database Engineering team (You’ll meet with 3 engineers on separate occasions for 45 minutes each)
We can confidently say that we have a feedback loop of 24-48 hours on all stages, so you’ll never be left in the dark when you’re in process with us.
What’s in it for you
📍 Sporty is a 100% remote company in continuation of our sustainability pledge
💰 We have x4 bonuses every year
⏰ Our core working hours are 10am-3pm your local time zone with flexibility outside of this
🌍 1-2 Annual company retreats
💻 We want our teams to perform as best they can, so we’ll set you up with a top of the line Macbook
Sporty is independently managed and financed, meaning we don’t have arbitrary shareholder or VC targets to cater to. So if you decide to join us on this amazing journey, we can guarantee a stable and solid working environment with some of the best team members around.
Equal opportunities for everyone
We’re an equal opportunity employer. All applicants will be considered for employment without attention to age, ethnicity, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, family or parental status, national origin, or veteran, neurodiversity or disability status.
This position is open to people Globally.
Top Skills
Aws Ec2
Cloudwatch
Grafana
MongoDB
MySQL
Prometheus
Python
Rds
Redshift
Shell
Terraform
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