Database Engineer - Ads
Apple · Software and Services
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["AWS""CI/CD""Cassandra""Go""Jenkins""Kubernetes""Linux""MongoDB""NoSQL""PostgreSQL""Python""RAG""SQL""Snowflake""Terraform"]Technology stack
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In this role, You’ll work primarily with PostgreSQL on AWS, alongside distributed databases, and grow your skills in cloud infrastructure, CI/CD, and automation. This is a hands-on role for someone who enjoys scripting away toil, learning cloud-native tooling, and partnering with engineering teams. You’ll be mentored by senior engineers while taking increasing ownership of real production systems.
Requirements
["3-8 years of experience in IT / software / database engineering.", "Hands-on experience with PostgreSQL (or another relational database with a clear path to Postgres); solid understanding of core database concepts.", "Working knowledge of SQL and fundamentals of query tuning and execution plans (e.g., EXPLAIN, indexing basics, pg_stat_*).", "Experience with at least one major cloud provider, ideally AWS, and its core services (compute, managed databases, storage, networking, security groups, VPC, KMS, IAM).", "Proficiency in Python for scripting and automation.", "Exposure to CI/CD and DevOps tooling (e.g., Git, Jenkins/GitLab CI/GitHub Actions, and infrastructure-as-code such as Terraform or CloudFormation, Helm, ACK).", "A demonstrated bias toward automation — a track record of scripting or automating repetitive work.", "Working knowledge of Linux/Unix fundamentals.", "Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, eagerness to learn, and good communication and collaboration skills.", "Preferred: Exposure to distributed databases (e.g., CockroachDB, YugabyteDB, Cassandra, MongoDB, or similar).", "Preferred: Familiarity with deploying or running databases on Kubernetes / containers.", "Preferred: Experience with PostgreSQL replication (streaming or logical).", "Preferred: Familiarity with monitoring/observability tooling (Prometheus, Grafana, CloudWatch, OpenTelemetry ).", "Preferred: Exposure to other database technologies (graph, NoSQL, or a data warehouse such as Snowflake).", "Preferred: Contributions to open source or personal automation/infrastructure projects."]
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