Senior NoSQL Database Administrator (DBA III)

Job Description

LivePerson, a global leader in enterprise conversations, is seeking a Senior NoSQL Database Administrator to join their team. This role is crucial for evolving LivePerson's database and data storage systems to keep pace with the company's rapid growth. The Senior DBA will collaborate with a focused team to redefine how databases are used by application teams, ensuring scalability and efficiency.Responsibilities:

• Understand the design and architecture of new highly-available and fault-tolerant cloud-based databases.
• Participate and collaborate with the team taking ownership of the most intellectually-demanding parts of solutions and deliver bar-raising solutions
• Investigate hard-to-pin-down problems across a complex and distributed architecture.
• Make a case for how we stay ahead of capacity issues and limit the blast radius of issues when a cluster is stressed.
• Work with database clients to improve their use of databases (e.g. optimize queries, evolve data models).
• Advocate for solutions that help teams launch quality software without compromising delivery speed.
• Work on automation of database infrastructure and help engineering succeed by providing self-service tools.
• Participate in 24*7 oncall rotations to support production issues.
• Go above and beyond to solve complex problems in database engineering.

Requirements:

• 8+ years of experience building successful production database systems handling terabytes of data.
• Experience configuring & Managing any two of the following database systems at scale: Cassandra, Couchbase, Redis or MongoDB.
• Highly accountable and responsible for projects successful execution.
• Experience managing database systems in a hybrid cloud (on-prem & public cloud)
• Familiarity creating architectures that scale with volume and are fault-tolerant
• Experience with distributed persistent systems & asynchronous messaging
• Experience tuning distributed systems to improve their performance under increasing volumes of traffic
• Proven ability to work in a fully remote environment with people across the globe
• Relevant certifications are a plus (e.g AWS Certification, Google Cloud Platform Certification)
• Able to create documentation, work on changes, incidents and jira tickets.
• Experienced in automation framework using ansible, terraform, git pipelines.
• Able to learn and quickly adapt to new technologies.

Benefits:

• Health: Medical, Dental and Vision
• Time away: Vacation and holidays