Senior Data Reliability Engineer

Job Description

Forter is seeking a Senior Data Reliability Engineer to join its Data Stores team. The ideal candidate will be responsible for designing, implementing, and delivering database solutions that are the core of Forter's products. This role involves working alongside highly technical software engineers, shaping the way Forter stores vast amounts of data.Forter's Data Stores team is responsible for implementing and delivering database solutions that handle and store petabytes of data. Their focus is on scalability, low latency, high throughput, and geo-distributed database systems, ingesting terabytes of data every day. They provide seamless, reliable, and scalable database solutions, which are key components for Forter's Machine Learning Models.What this role involves:

• Designing, implementing, and maintaining scalable, reliable, and efficient database solutions.
• Leading and mentoring engineers to ensure the seamless operation of database systems.
• Investigating and implementing performance and cost optimizations for database solutions.
• Creating or introducing tooling and processes to support the operational aspects required for maintaining large database solutions.
• Contributing to the continual improvement of database infrastructure.
• Staying updated with the latest trends and technologies for databases, and implementing new database offerings as needed.
• Participating in on-call rotations to ensure the availability and performance of database systems.

Requirements for this role:

• 5+ years of experience as a data Infrastructure or backend-oriented software engineer.
• Proven experience in designing and maintaining large-scale database solutions.
• Strong knowledge of database principles, distributed systems, and database management.
• Experience with both Relational (e.g: MySQL, Postgres or MariaDB) and NoSQL databases (e.g: Aerospike, Cassandra, ScyllaDB, DynamoDB, ElasticSearch)
• Experience with AWS Infrastructure and database products.
• Strong Linux troubleshooting experience.
• Proficiency in Bash, Python, or Go.
• Experience with configuration management (chef, ansible, terraform or cloud formation)
• Excellent problem-solving skills and attention to detail.
• Strong communication skills.

What Forter offers:

• Competitive salary and bonus plan
• Restricted Stock Units (RSUs)
• Private health insurance, including vision and dental coverage
• Generous PTO policy
• Half day Fridays, every Friday