Senior Database Reliability Engineer (DBRE)

OVERVIEW RESPONSIBILITIES REQUIREMENTS

Together with the Zoolatech team, our partner, a leading construction management company, is at the forefront of developing a cloud-based software solution. This innovative platform is instrumental in the successful completion of major projects including skyscrapers, hospitals, data centers, stadiums, and schools. It streamlines the management of finances, quality, teams, and risks, making these processes transparent, convenient, and regulation-compliant. Our partner is not only an expert in construction management but also a significant technology innovator, actively developing web and mobile solutions. Zoolatech plays a crucial role in supporting their growth, and now we’re looking for a Senior Database Reliability Engineer to join the team. In this role, you’ll help build next-generation data platform for others to build upon.

As a Database Reliability Engineer, you’ll partner with other engineers and product managers across the division to develop data platform capabilities that enable the storage and management of data for use in transactional and analytical applications. To be successful in this role, you’re passionate about distributed data storage systems on the cloud with experience in non-relational (NoSQL) or relational (SQL) databases. If you’re an engineer comfortable and excited about building our next-generation data platform and translating problems into pragmatic solutions that open up the boundaries of technical possibilities—we’d love to hear from you!

• Participate in the design and implementation of our next-generation data platform for the construction industry, primarily focused on building and supporting distributed NoSQL and SQL databases

• Support our engineering team in all phases of the software development lifecycle, including requirements gathering, functional and technical design, development, testing and roll-out, and support

• Help identify and propose solutions for technical gaps in our data platform by running proof of concepts and experiments

• Work alongside our Product, UX, and IT teams, leveraging your experience and expertise in NoSQL and SQL database technologies to influence the product roadmap, developing innovative solutions that add additional capabilities to our tools

• Stay up to date with the latest data technology trends

• Take part in the On-call duty of the team to handle the production incidents

Important: Working hours should correspond to the US central time zone

• Experience operating RDBMS databases (like PostgreSQL, MySQL, etc.)

• Experience operating NoSQL databases (like Elasticsearch, Elastic Cache, DynamoDB, Neo4j, Mongo, Cassandra, etc.)

• 5+ years of experience as a DBA/DRE/DBRE

• Strong experience in building and operating cloud-based, highly available, distributed, and scalable databases with large amounts of data

• Proficiency in managing infrastructure as code, such as Terraform or CloudFormation

• Solid experience with AWS (RDS, EC2, S3, IAM etc.)

• Experience and proficiency in shell scripting or bash

• Experience with monitoring and alerting systems

• Strong passion for learning, always open to new technologies and ideas

Would be a plus:

• Experience with streaming technologies (Kafka)

• AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Associate is nice to have

• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science or a related field is preferred, or comparable work experience

Location:

Other, LATAM

Seniority:

Senior

Technologies:

BigData, System Administration

Benefits:

• Paid Vacation
• Sick Days
• Floating Holidays
• Sport/Insurance Compensation
• English Classes
• Charity
• Training Compensation