Position: Senior Database Engineer
Company: Stuzo
Experience required: 5y
English level: upper

**Overview**
This role represents a key technical position supporting Stuzo’s Operations and Development organizations. The individual hired for this role will be closely involved with implementation, maintenance, and monitoring of all aspects of our PostgreSQL cloud-based databases (AWS).
Open Commerce is a technology suite that enables marketing professionals in the fuel&convenience industry to create real-time, hyper-personalized offers and customer interactions across a variety of channels (mobile, web, SMS, and in-person) to drive customer behavior toward a desired goal.
Our technology bridges financial payment providers, retail fuel pump technology, and customer experience by wrapping low-level standards-compliant integrations with powerful software abstractions on an ultra-modern software platform. 
Our platform services and applications are built using a broad swath of technologies (Typescript, Node.js, Ruby, React, and others), interconnected via GraphQL and RabbitMQ, and run in AWS using Terraform, Helm and Kubernetes (via EKS).

**Responsibilities**

● Own, manage, and support all technical aspects of our AWS (RDS, Aurora) cloud hosted databases, from development through mission-critical production systems;
● Configure and maintain database servers and processes, including monitoring of system health and performance, to ensure high levels of performance and availability;
● Implement and maintain appropriate security standards across databases;
● Serve as a key stakeholder in infrastructure related incident response, esp. with regard to databases, and correct efforts;
● Refine and automate regular processes, track issues, and document changes;
● Establish processes and help maintain Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) for regulatory compliance;
● Provide input and own a share in delivering against the operations roadmap and the Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC);
● Review / oversee data modeling efforts put forth by the development team to ensure integration and performance expectations are met;
● Assist developers with complex query tuning and schema refinement;
● Keep up to date on relevant technology and industry trends;
● Assist and provide guidance to other team members as needed;
● Perform scheduled maintenance and support release deployment activities after hours;
● Write and maintain database automation processes;


**Qualifications**

● Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or equivalent experience;
● 5+ years experience with relational database administration including PostgreSQL;
● 2+ years experience with cloud hosted database infrastructure (esp. AWS);
● Some experience with distributed, scalable, non-relational databases such as columnar, document, and time-series is a strong plus;
● Must be detail oriented, possess good communications skills and habits, and like to work in a highly transparent environment;
● Experience with at least one scripting language (Python preferred);


**Bonus Points**

● Experience with NoSQL database technologies
● Experience with AWS RDS and Aurora
● Experience in the retail and/or fuel &amp; convenience industries
● Software development experience

**STUZO OFFERS**

● Long-term employment;
● Competitive compensation with regular performance-based salary and career development reviews;
● 22 working days of vacation per year;
● 8 paid sick leave working days per year;
● Health insurance program;
● Flexible working hours;
● Sponsored company educational program, corporate library;
● Comfortable and cozy office or full remote;
● Funny celebrations, team outings, and company events;
● A unique and friendly environment where everyone can explore and learn new technologies.