Database Engineer(PostgreSQL

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About the Team

Database Engineer: Establishes database management systems, standards, guidelines and quality assurance for database deliverables, such as conceptual design, logical database, capacity planning, external data interface specification, data loading plan, data maintenance plan and security policy. Documents and communicates database design. Evaluates and installs database management systems. Codes complex programs and derives logical processes on technical platforms. Participates in quality assurance and develops test application code in client server environments. Provides expertise in devising, negotiating and defending the tables and fields provided in the database. Adapts business requirements, developed by modeling/development staff and systems engineers, and develops the data, database specifications, and table and element attributes for an application. At more experienced levels, helps to develop an understanding of client's original data and storage mechanisms. Determines appropriateness of data for storage and optimum storage organization. Determines how tables relate to each other and how fields interact within the tables for a relational model.

About the Role

Workday Strategic Sourcing is a leading provider in cloud-based strategic sourcing solutions that help organizations source faster and achieve better business outcomes. Strategic Sourcing has a direct impact on Workday’s ability to deliver a comprehensive source-to-pay offering and transforming the procurement workflow.

Strategic Sourcing transforms archaic sourcing processes with clean, intuitive software that helps buyers and suppliers do business more effectively and with fewer headaches.

We are  looking for a Database Engineer to help us build for the future, revamp our persistence architecture where required and ensure our database systems are operating flawlessly 24/7. 

About You

You will be working with the latest  versions of PostgreSQL database which is the main persistence store for our Ruby on Rails application.  We are looking for a talented engineer to help us scale, optimize and shard our database infrastructure in line with the significant growth our product area is currently seeing. 

This role requires a person that :

• understands database performance and our current workloads

• has a good knowledge of a connection management and how system resources are used on a database server

• is familiar, and can suggest related tooling (including monitoring solutions)

• Is capable of tuning and configuring PostgreSQL (ideally within AWS)

• predicting the required capacity and helping DevOps to provision it.

We are also interested to hear about:

• working with databases that cross-regions/datacenters

• working with teams that use ORMs (AR in rails) or other application framework

About you:

• 5+ years experience working with PostgreSQL, planning and provisioning database instances

• You have worked with database deployments in public clouds (preferably AWS and their RDS offering)

• You propose pragmatic solutions to painful problems

• You find opportunities to teach others

• You are a team player, you motivate your teammates 

• You are responsible, helpful, and kind.

• You seek innovative solutions to problems.

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