The Discogs Platform team is focused on several objectives: building and supporting performant, cost-effective, reliable infrastructure; developer experience tooling and mentorship; and creating "golden paths" for organization-wide standards and velocity. As a key member of the Platform team, the Senior Site Reliability Engineer – Data will be working closely with other Discogs engineering squads to develop and optimize scalable, well-planned relational database architectures, drive best practices and stability for our use of Kafka and change data capture, and contribute to the Platform team’s operations.

Location

This is a remote position. Open to candidates located in OR, WA, CA, CO, TX, IL

Compensation

Starting Base Salary Range: $130,000 – $140,000 yearly

What You’ll Accomplish

Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

• Stewarding Discogs’ data stores as a key subject matter expert
• Leading efforts on the reliability and design patterns of our Kafka and Kafka Connect implementations
• Establishing data contracts and clear communication standards between CDC producers and consumers
• Working closely with engineering squads to refactor and re-architect MySQL database schema and indexing for long-term scalability, performance, and cost effectiveness
• Mentoring engineering squads on Platform best practices for MySQL, Kafka, and other software development lifecycle areas
• Writing documentation and runbooks that contribute to the engineering organization’s knowledge base
• Working in a containerized, orchestrated environment
• Contributing to the Platform team’s disciplines of site reliability and operations, supporting both our squads and Platform’s central infrastructure
• Participating in on-call rotation, responding to incidents, and troubleshooting data and other operations issues

What You’ll Contribute

Minimum Education and Experience

• A Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science or similar area of focus, or equivalent relevant work experience.
• 5+ years of experience working with Kafka and relational database management systems (RDBMS).
• 6+ years experience in Ops, DevOps, Site Reliability, Platform or other systems roles.

Required Skills & Abilities:

• Relational database schema design, query performance optimization, administration (MySQL, Percona Server, AWS RDS)
• Kafka: Cluster administration (Strimzi), Kafka Connect (Debezium, JDBC)
• CI/CD (GitHub Actions)
• GitOps (ArgoCD)
• Kubernetes (EKS, Kustomize, Karpenter, administration, application manifests)
• AWS and cloud development (VPC, EKS, RDS, S3)
• Observability (Datadog, Sentry)
• Scripting (Shell, Python)
• Track record of collaboration and mentorship
• Excellent written communication and documentation skills
• Continuous learning
• Ownership and proactive approach to solving large problems

Preferred:

• Infrastructure-as-code (Terraform)
• Elasticsearch (ECK administration, scaling, performance)
• Python (SQLAlchemy, FastAPI)
• GraphQL (schema design, Apollo federation)
• REST API
• Hashicorp Vault
• Redis
• Memcached
• NoSQL Database
• Data Lake/Warehouse
• Data Governance
• Data Security

The Platform team covers a wide range of technical topics and we’d love to hear about your skills beyond this list!