Database SRE

$150,000 - $250,000/Yr

Hudson River Trading - Seattle, WA

posted about 1 month ago

Full-time - Mid Level
Seattle, WA
Merchant Wholesalers, Durable Goods

About the position

Hudson River Trading (HRT) is seeking an experienced Database Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) to join their Research & Development team. This role focuses on designing, building, and maintaining HRT's diverse production database infrastructure, ensuring performance, scalability, and reliability within a globally distributed trading environment. The position is ideal for engineers who want to make a significant impact while collaborating with a small, dedicated team of database and systems engineers.

Responsibilities

  • Design, build, and maintain HRT's SQL and NoSQL database infrastructure.
  • Configure and scale PostgreSQL and MySQL servers for trade-critical, real-time workflows.
  • Investigate and improve performance of PostgreSQL and MySQL queries and supporting infrastructure (Debian Linux).
  • Transform the metrics and alerting landscape with Prometheus, VictoriaMetrics, and Grafana.
  • Architect and deploy Redis based key/value stores for current and future use-cases.
  • Engineer and apply infrastructure-as-code tools and services (Salt, Terraform, and others).
  • Build and test proof of concept datastores to fit consumer use cases.

Requirements

  • 5+ years of experience working in database management and infrastructure engineering.
  • Proven expertise in designing and implementing production database infrastructure, from security and replication to observability (monitoring, alerting, logging).
  • Solid familiarity with state-of-the-art DB technologies and tradeoffs (distributed DBs, time-series DBs, relaxed consistency models, columnar storage).
  • Experience with dynamic clustering solutions such as Patroni.
  • Strong knowledge and experience with Linux (especially Debian).
  • Extensive experience with PostgreSQL or MySQL.
  • Solid programming skills with the ability to write Python, understanding data structures and software design principles.
  • Performance troubleshooting and networking knowledge.

Nice-to-haves

  • Experience with Redis, Prometheus, VictoriaMetrics, and Grafana preferred.
  • Exceptional communication and project management skills.

Benefits

  • Annual base salary range of $150,000 to $250,000.
  • Sign-on and discretionary performance bonus may be provided as part of the total compensation package.
  • Company-paid medical and/or other benefits.
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