Senior Site Reliability Engineer - Data (REMOTE)

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

Who We Are

We are dedicated to supporting a global community of music fans and collectors who share the value, culture, connection, and joy of record collecting. Fostering the exchange of knowledge, records, and curation, we help people help each other deepen their relationship with music. Leveraging the power of community, we are committed to enabling people to explore artists and their recorded works through the world's definitive music discography, stay informed with record collection and sales history data, get organized with specialized collection management tools, and stay connected to a global community of fellow record collectors and sellers. Providing this essential set of resources, tools, and access, we aim to unleash boundless opportunities for people to dig into the depths of their musical interests, build and fortify their record collections, cultivate and bridge communities, and elevate their connection to music and record collecting.

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!

What We Provide

• Competitive compensation: salary, plus performance-related bonus program
• 401(k) with employer match
• 100% company-paid medical and dental insurance benefits for you and your dependents
• 4 weeks paid vacation, increasing based on tenure
• 18 weeks paid leave for birth moms
• 8 weeks paid parental leave, including for adoption
• Monthly wellness allowance
• Annual professional and personal development allowance
• Work from home office set-up and expense allowances
• Flexible work location opportunities
• Employer matching toward charitable contributions

What We Believe In

We're building a world idealized for record collectors, driven by community, and fueled by a shared passion for music. Through culture, information, and innovation, we strive to develop a complete ecosystem of resources to empower music lovers and entrepreneurs everywhere to engage more deeply in the joys and possibilities of record collecting. We foster a collaborative community dedicated to preserving the recording industry's past, present, and unfolding future by cataloging the world's complete, interconnected music discography. Leveraging the power of this dynamic knowledge base, we aim to innovate integrated technologies to empower music fans everywhere to embark on a boundless journey of music discovery and record collecting. We envision this to be the complete collecting journey.

Discogs is an Equal Opportunity Employer.

Applicants needing accommodation to apply should contact us at 503-597-6340

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If you apply for this role, you will be required to upload a resume, cover letter, and fill out a few questions regarding your application. Once submitted, our hiring team will review your application and contact you if you are selected for an interview. Whether you are successful or not, we will store your application and data in our system for a maximum period of one year from the application date in case another role becomes available that you are suitable for. If you have any questions or concerns about us storing this data and/or the period of time, please contact us at [email protected] and we will respond to you within 30 days.