Senior Software Engineer - PostgreSQL Infrastructure
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Job description
You are a talented, highly motivated software engineer who understands and enjoys designing and building applications to automate workflows. You are excited about expanding your knowledge on how relational databases work under the hood and how to best leverage them in software development. You are interested in working with, and potentially contributing to, open-source software. You're not afraid to make pragmatic risk decisions and design fault-tolerant systems amidst ambiguity. You are comfortable interacting with teams across Bloomberg to help them utilize our system and leverage our tools to diagnose issues with their databases.
We will expect you to:
- Develop automated and self-service solutions for database infrastructure management
- Build telemetry, metrics and monitoring solutions to reduce the cost of managing services at scale
- Prioritize stability and security above all other competing priorities
- Partner with application and other infrastructure teams to achieve our shared business objectives.
- Improve operational processes and documentation
Requirements
- 4+ years of software engineering experience in object oriented languages (eg Java/Python)
- Ability to debug and correct production problems
- Strong problem solving and communication skills
- Experience writing code that interacts with relational databases such as PostgreSQL and MySQL
- Understanding of basic database operations
We'd love to see
- Strong understanding of databases and database design patterns
- Experience leveraging OpenAPI and Java Spring Boot for microservices development
- Ability to detect and troubleshoot database performance issues related to CPU, memory, disk I/O and other resource contention
- Familiarity with Kubernetes and Docker containers
- Experience working with open-source software/community (upstream accepted contribution, or community presence) is preferred
- Knowledge of React/Node.js
Benefits & conditions
Salary Range = 160000 - 240000 USD Annually + Benefits + Bonus
The referenced salary range is based on the Company's good faith belief at the time of posting. Actual compensation may vary based on factors such as geographic location, work experience, market conditions, education/training and skill level.
We offer one of the most comprehensive and generous benefits plans available and offer a range of total rewards that may include merit increases, incentive compensation (exempt roles only), paid holidays, paid time off, medical, dental, vision, short and long term disability benefits, 401(k) +match, life insurance, and various wellness programs, among others. The Company does not provide benefits directly to contingent workers/contractors and interns.
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