Database SRE

Hudson River Trading - Seattle, WA

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 ideal candidate will have solid Linux systems engineering skills and a passion for improving database management and infrastructure engineering.

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 with an understanding of data structures and the principles of software design.
• Performance troubleshooting and networking knowledge.

Nice-to-haves

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

Benefits

• Diverse and inclusive work environment.
• Opportunities for professional development and growth.
• Collaborative culture with a focus on innovation.