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Senior Systems Engineer, Database Platform

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Hybrid
3 Locations
Senior level
Hybrid
3 Locations
Senior level
The Senior Systems Engineer will enhance PostgreSQL infrastructure, optimize performance, and manage database tools for automation and monitoring. Responsibilities include deploying and maintaining production databases, implementing high availability solutions, and monitoring database health using observability tools. Flexibility for on-call support outside standard hours is required.
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Available Locations: Hybrid - Austin, Lisbon or London
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.

Must-Have Skills

  • 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) .

Nice-to-Have Skills

  • 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

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