The Senior Systems Engineer will enhance PostgreSQL infrastructures, manage databases, automate processes, and improve database reliability and performance.
Available Locations: Hybrid - Amsterdam, Netherlands | Atlanta, GA, | Austin, TX | Denver, CO | Lisbon, Portugal | London, UK | New York, NY | Seattle, WA | Toronto, ON | Washington, DC
Role Summary
This role may require flexibility to be on-call outside of standard working hours to address technical issues as needed.
The ideal candidate will work alongside database engineers, software developers, and Infrastructure teams, contributing to the evolution of database platform architecture, access control, and automation strategies. They will play a critical role in enhancing PostgreSQL infrastructure and improving database reliability, automation, and tooling. If you are passionate about PostgreSQL, automation, and database tooling, we'd love to hear from you!
Role Responsibilities
Compensation
Compensation may be adjusted depending on work location.
Equity
This role is eligible to participate in Cloudflare's equity plan.
Benefits
Cloudflare offers a complete package of benefits and programs to support you and your family. Our benefits programs can help you pay health care expenses, support caregiving, build capital for the future and make life a little easier and fun! The below is a description of our benefits for employees in the United States, and benefits may vary for employees based outside the U.S.
Health & Welfare Benefits
Financial Benefits
Time Off
Role Summary
This role may require flexibility to be on-call outside of standard working hours to address technical issues as needed.
The ideal candidate will work alongside database engineers, software developers, and Infrastructure teams, contributing to the evolution of database platform architecture, access control, and automation strategies. They will play a critical role in enhancing PostgreSQL infrastructure and improving database reliability, automation, and tooling. If you are passionate about PostgreSQL, automation, and database tooling, we'd love to hear from you!
Role Responsibilities
- Build, deploy, and manage PostgreSQL databases in production environments.
- Develop and maintain database tooling for automation, monitoring and performance tuning.
- Optimize database performance, indexing strategies, and query tuning.
- Implement high availability, backup and disaster recovery solutions.
- Work closely with SRE and Applications teams to integrate database tools.
- Implement proactive solutions using observability tools to monitor database health.
- Experience building large multi-tenant databases, operating, capacity planning, and designing for failover, fault tolerance, and disaster recovery.
- Experience building and maintaining database tooling for automation and monitoring.
- Experience optimizing database performance and query tuning.
- Experience with alerting and monitoring tools such as Prometheus, Grafana, and Kibana.
- Experience in scripting languages (Python, Bash) for automation.
- Experience with infrastructure-as-code (Terraform, Ansible or Salt) .
- Expertise in database schema migrations and automation using tools like Flyway, Liquibase or goose.
- Contributions to PostgreSQL or relevant open-source projects.
- Experience defining and implementing security policies for a RDBMS.
- Experience with connection pooling solutions such as PgBouncer, HAProxy.
- Experience with non-relational data stores such as time-series databases (ex. OpenTSDB) and key-value stores (eg., Redis)
- Experience developing software in Go, Python or C/C++
Compensation
Compensation may be adjusted depending on work location.
Equity
This role is eligible to participate in Cloudflare's equity plan.
Benefits
Cloudflare offers a complete package of benefits and programs to support you and your family. Our benefits programs can help you pay health care expenses, support caregiving, build capital for the future and make life a little easier and fun! The below is a description of our benefits for employees in the United States, and benefits may vary for employees based outside the U.S.
Health & Welfare Benefits
- Medical/Rx Insurance
- Dental Insurance
- Vision Insurance
- Flexible Spending Accounts
- Commuter Spending Accounts
- Fertility & Family Forming Benefits
- On-demand mental health support and Employee Assistance Program
- Global Travel Medical Insurance
Financial Benefits
- Short and Long Term Disability Insurance
- Life & Accident Insurance
- 401(k) Retirement Savings Plan
- Employee Stock Participation Plan
Time Off
- Flexible paid time off covering vacation and sick leave
- Leave programs, including parental, pregnancy health, medical, and bereavement leave
Top Skills
Ansible
Bash
C/C++
Go
Grafana
Kibana
Postgres
Prometheus
Python
Salt
Terraform
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