Database Engineer

  • Zaragoza
  • New Relic

Your Opportunity : Do you want to work on automating databases and services that process hundreds of billions of transactions per month? Do you aspire to design, build, and deploy database systems across several environments that are highly reliable, performant, and easy to operate via automation? If you find these challenges electrifying, we encourage you to apply!

We are looking for a Database Engineer to join our growing team responsible for creating and maintaining open-source data stores. You will design automated, flexible systems capable of scaling to meet the growing demand of the database platform provide guidance and methodologies on schema design, query optimization, and learn the detailed data requirements of New Relic products!

What You’ll Do :

  • Build systems that help teams migrate from our containerized database platform (Megabase) to new cloud environments.
  • Build and support everything from the network to deployment infrastructure in a fast-paced environment where we’re constantly increasing our scale.
  • Investigating new datastore technologies and cloud migration strategies
  • Assist in the creation, administration, and monitoring of: MySQL, Postgres, and Redis systems and infrastructure.
  • Investigating database tuning settings and query changes needed to improve performance, availability, and reliability.
  • Developing tools in Go to automate the operation (server and database provisioning, backups, fail-overs, monitoring, etc.) of our Dockerized database infrastructure to reduce possibilities for manual error and increase team efficiency.

Your Qualifications : Must-have:

  • 3+ years of experience supporting database systems or in system administration roles.
  • Real-world experience administering MySQL, Postgres, and/or Redis in production.
  • Experience operating databases hosted on cloud platforms
  • Automation-first thinking

Nice-to-have:

  • Experience using AWS managed databases: RDS, Aurora, ElastiCache
  • Experience using Go, Python and/or Ruby to automate system-level tasks (the team has standardized on Go for tool development)
  • Experience with Docker container deployments and administration
  • Experience with Ansible, Terraform, Puppet or other configuration management tools.

Please note that visa sponsorship is not available for this position.

We believe in empowering all Relics to achieve professional, and business success through a workforce model called Flex First. The Flex First model allows us to work in a variety of workplaces that best support our success, including fully office-based, fully remote, or a combination of both.

Read more about Flex First and New Relic’s vaccine policy as part of our commitment to maintaining a safe and healthy workplace in light of the COVID-19 pandemic.

New Relic currently has offices in Germany, Ireland, Spain, and the United Kingdom, and based on business needs may approve work in Belgium, France, Italy, The Netherlands, Switzerland, Sweden, UAE, and other locations throughout the region. Some of our opportunities are limited to specific hiring locations. Talk with your recruiter about your goals and how we can work with you in our Flex First approach!

About Us : New Relic (NYSE: NEWR) is a cloud-based observability platform that gives developers, engineers, operations, and management a clear view of what’s happening in today’s complex software environments. So they can find and fix problems faster, and deliver delightful experiences for their customers. That's why the world’s best engineering teams rely on New Relic to visualize, analyze, and troubleshoot their software. It’s the simplest, most powerful cloud-based observability platform, built to create more perfect software. All from one place.

Our Hiring Process : In compliance with applicable law, all persons hired will be required to verify identity and eligibility to work and to complete employment eligibility verification. Note: Our stewardship of the data of thousands of customers’ means that a criminal background check is required to join New Relic.

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New Relic is an equal opportunity employer. We eagerly seek a diverse applicant pool and hire without regard to race, color, gender identity, religion, national origin, ancestry, citizenship, physical abilities (or disability), age, sexual orientation, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.

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