Database Engineer

Database Engineer at Demandbase · Remote only · 5 - 9 years · ₹15L - ₹30L / yr (ESOP available) · Remote only · Posted 6 Jun 2022

Database Engineer

at Demandbase

Posted by Shalini Jakhar

5 - 9 yrs

₹15L - ₹30L / yr (ESOP available)

Remote only

Skills

PostgreSQL

MySQL

Linux/Unix

Shell Scripting

Amazon Web Services (AWS)

Kubernetes

Terraform

About Demandbase company

The world’s largest and fastest-growing companies such as Accenture, Adobe, DocuSign and Salesforce rely on Demandbase to drive their Account-Based Marketing strategy and maximize their B2B marketing performance. We pioneered the ABM category nearly a decade ago, and today we lead the category as an indispensable part of the B2B MarTech stack. Our achievements and innovation would not be possible without the driven and collaborative teams here at Demandbase. As a company, we’re as committed to growing careers as we are to building world-class technology.

InsideView helps businesses drive rapid revenue growth by empowering business leaders to discover new markets, target and engage the right buyers, and manage customer data quality. Our AI-based B2B data and intelligence platform delivers the industry’s most relevant and reliable buyer signals and, combined with InsideView’s data expertise and best-in-class customer support, is trusted by the world’s best performing companies.

We believe in the power of technology to deliver business value, and in creating solutions that change the way companies sell and engage with their customers. We take risks in order to develop groundbreaking solutions. We are market savvy and competitive, and ready to transform our industry at this exciting inflection point for the company and the market. We focus on the needs of our customers now, and in the future. We love coming to work every day and are looking for smart, engaged, and fun people to join us.

Our headquarters is located in San Francisco’s vibrant Potrero Hill neighborhood, with additional locations in downtown Austin, Texas, and Hyderabad, Telangana, India.

Job Description: Database Engineer

We are looking for a Database Engineer with 4+ years of experience. We are looking for the ability to optimize, troubleshoot, and ensure high availability of the databases.

• Experience in maintaining databases in cloud environment. Postgres and Clickhouse are strongly preferred, but experience with other databases may be considered. We are looking for the ability to optimize, troubleshoot, and ensure high availability of the databases.

• Experience with cloud technologies, AWS is strongly preferred, but other cloud technologies may be considered. Specifically in AWS, we are looking for prior experience with RDS, VPC, Route53, EBS, S3, EC2, SNS

• Experience with complex SQL on RDBMS and distributed columnar storage, preferably Postgres and Clickhouse, or BigQuery, Snowflake. Familiarity with advanced SQL constructs, best practices, SQL optimization and performance tuning.

• Experience with Linux command line.

• Experience with databases horizontal scaling and distributed databases, sharding, Postgres physical and logical replication solutions.

• Experience in relational and data warehouse data modeling, normalization and denormalization.

• Strong scripting and automation skills. Shell scripting is a must, python is very desirable, Go is nice to have.

• Experience with source control solutions, preferably git.

• Experience working in an agile team and delivering complex projects with minimal supervision.

• Good communication skills and team working.

• Ability to work on flexible schedule, overlapping with the Pacific Time zone business hours. Ability to provide pager coverage on schedule.

• Desire and interest in working with database technologies and solutions, desire to learn.

• Upper Intermediate English level.

Additional desirable skills:

• Practical experience with Docker and kubernetes. Ability to create, maintain, and troubleshoot kubernetes deployments. ○ Experience with terraform, vault; understanding of CI/CD concepts

About You

• Active listener who can grow ideas

• Ability to learn new technologies, software, and concepts quickly

• Confident and articulate with excellent written and verbal communication skills

• Excellent communication skills, and the ability to work effectively with others in small, high performance teams

• Deliver with speed and on-time maintaining a high-quality code base

About Demandbase company

Our headquarters is located in San Francisco’s vibrant Potrero Hill neighborhood, with additional locations in downtown Austin, Texas, and Hyderabad, Telangana, India.

Job Description: Database Engineer

We are looking for a Database Engineer with 4+ years of experience. We are looking for the ability to optimize, troubleshoot, and ensure high availability of the databases.

• Experience with Linux command line.

• Experience with databases horizontal scaling and distributed databases, sharding, Postgres physical and logical replication solutions.

• Experience in relational and data warehouse data modeling, normalization and denormalization.

• Strong scripting and automation skills. Shell scripting is a must, python is very desirable, Go is nice to have.

• Experience with source control solutions, preferably git.

• Experience working in an agile team and delivering complex projects with minimal supervision.

• Good communication skills and team working.

• Ability to work on flexible schedule, overlapping with the Pacific Time zone business hours. Ability to provide pager coverage on schedule.

• Desire and interest in working with database technologies and solutions, desire to learn.

• Upper Intermediate English level.

Additional desirable skills:

• Practical experience with Docker and kubernetes. Ability to create, maintain, and troubleshoot kubernetes deployments. ○ Experience with terraform, vault; understanding of CI/CD concepts

About You

• Active listener who can grow ideas

• Ability to learn new technologies, software, and concepts quickly

• Confident and articulate with excellent written and verbal communication skills

• Excellent communication skills, and the ability to work effectively with others in small, high performance teams

• Deliver with speed and on-time maintaining a high-quality code base

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About Demandbase

Founded :

2005

Type :

Product

Size :

1000-5000

Stage

About

Demandbase is the Smarter GTM™ company for B2B brands. We help marketing and sales teams overcome the disruptive data and technology fragmentation that inhibits insight and forces them to spam their prospects. We do this by injecting Account Intelligence into every step of the buyer journey, wherever you interact with customers, and by helping you orchestrate every action across systems and channels — through advertising, account-based experience, and sales motions. The result? You spot opportunities earlier, engage with them more intelligently, and close deals faster. Any of that sound interesting to you?

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