Database Reliability Engineer

Remote, South Africa

About the role

With tens of millions of visitors every week, we strive to be the best in the industry for our users. You’ll be responsible for taking ownership of our existing and new database infrastructure for multiple platforms and facilitating releases into new regions. We wrote our systems from scratch about 4 years ago, so you’ll be working with the latest technology and won’t have to worry about decades old technologies. There’s also freedom to research and implement new technologies into our stack as you and the team see fit.

Our Stack

Relational Databases: AWS Aurora MySQL/PostgreSQL

NoSQL Databases: MongoDB Atlas, AWS DocumentDB

Caching Layer: AWS ElastiCache, Valkey

Message Queue: Apache RocketMQ, RabbitMQ

Search Engine: ElasticSearch, Mongo Atlas

OLAP: Redshift

Monitoring & Alerting: Prometheus, Grafana, Loki, Alert Manager

Backup & Recovery: AWS Backup, Point-in-Time Recovery, Cross-Region Replication

Database Proxy: RDS Proxy

Infrastructure as Code: Terraform, Ansible

CI/CD Integration: Jenkins, ArgoCD, Github Action, Helm

Network & Security: AWS VPC, Security Groups, AWS Secrets Manager

Programming Languages: Golang, Python

Containerization:...