Coin Metrics Jobs in United States

YOUR PURPOSE

Coin Metrics is seeking an experienced Sr. Database Administrator to join our team. As a Sr. Database Administrator, you will be responsible for designing and implementing secure, scalable, and reliable cloud solutions to support our growing platform. The ideal candidate will have a deep understanding of cloud infrastructure, architecture, and design principles, and will be comfortable working in a fast-paced and dynamic environment.

YOUR VALUE

• Building distributed, scalable, reliable, cost-effective, and performant database architectures.
• Working closely with software development engineers to build optimal solutions.
• Scaling and capacity planning (>200TB).
• Collaborating with the infrastructure team on the processes and administration of database solutions including provisioning, data lifecycle maintenance, backups, and server tuning.
• Driving database technology excellence and consistency across multiple software engineering teams.
• Expert advising engineers on software design and system architecture related to databases.
• Applying technical insight that informs, enables, and drives database technology innovation.
• Evaluate the feasibility of alternative database implementations and produce performance benchmarks.
• Planning cloud architecture on AWS, GCP, and Bare-metal using Terraform and Ansible.
• Designing CI/CD pipelines using Bash, Python, and other languages.
• Monitoring database infrastructure using Prometheus and Grafana

YOUR EXPERTISE AND EXPERIENCE

• Experience with the architecture and implementation of distributed backend applications, multi-datacenter configurations, and databases using Bare-metal servers and/or Kubernetes.
• 7+ years of direct experience in data architecture, database architecture, or backend engineering roles.
• Proficiency in SQL (preferably PostgreSQL) with demonstrated experience with query plans, index configurations, and other profiling techniques.
• Experience configuring, running, and maintaining databases of various types, preferably through container management toolkits such as Docker or Kubernetes.
• Deep backend software engineering knowledge and excellent troubleshooting abilities.
• Strong focus on reliability and scalability.
• Experience with scaling and migrating databases in a changing environment that allows for little or no downtime.
• Willingness to mentor engineers on best database practices.
• Experience with Docker, Kubernetes, GitLab CI, Gradle, Ansible, Helm, Python, Grafana, Prometheus, and Linux.

BONUS POINTS:

• You've been a Lead for a project to migrate services from self-hosted to Cloud
• Experience migrating and managing large datasets across Cloud providers
• Experience with Prometheus and Grafana for metrics and alerting
• Infrastructure and Network Security experience.
• Experience leading Incident Management Policy/Process, handling incidents in production, running retrospectives, delivering RCAs
• Interest in blockchain technologies.

LIFE AT COIN METRICS

Coin Metrics is a fun and fast-paced team with staff members located in 8 countries. We are united by our OPEN (Open, Pioneering, Elucidating, and Neutral) core values. Our employees are empowered to do what’s best for our products, customers, and team members. Other benefits of working at Coin Metrics include:

• Competitive salary, 401(k) retirement plan, bonus and options plans
• Comprehensive medical, dental, vision
• Remote or hybrid work options
• Paid time off
• Global company offsites