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Teaching Strategies is an innovative edtech organization focused on connecting teachers, children, and families. As front runners in the early childhood education market, we build dynamic, top-quality digital products that integrate all of the essential elements of a high-quality solution: curriculum, assessment, professional development, and family engagement. We are building a team of results-oriented individuals who will thrive in a collaborative, work-hard/play-hard culture. We pride ourselves on the impact we have on the early childhood field through supporting teachers who are doing the most important work there is, teaching children to become creative, confident thinkers.

Position Overview

Teaching Strategies is looking for a highly talented, innovative, and creative Database Reliability Engineer to join our Infrastructure Engineering team. DBRE is a database-focused specialization within our SRE team and works closely with Platform Engineering (CPE) and Product Engineering teams. This is a hands-on technical role and requires a thorough understanding of all backend components of a modern cloud and data stack, including strong networking and systems-level knowledge. The ideal candidate will bring forward innovative and creative ideas around database performance, scalability, security, and high availability distributed systems design in order to help us build and maintain scalable and performant technology solutions for our products. And help advance us towards our vision of a platform provisioned and managed by Database-as-Code with automations and tooling that empowers and accelerates our engineering teams.

Specific Roles & Responsibilities:

• Passion for database reliability and performance, you will support all customer-facing services and products
• Own our AWS Aurora PostgreSQL database clusters and ensure compliance with availability, scalability and security best practices
• Own and drive improvements to observability of database performance metrics, monitors, and alerting
• Work with peer SREs to safely deploy changes to our production environment
• Participate in the on-call rotation with the team
• Provide database expertise consulting to product engineering teams
• Collaborate on PR reviews of database migrations and query and performance optimizations
• Automate provisioning of database infrastructure and empower engineering team by providing self-service tooling
• Proactively capacity plan for growth of the Teaching Strategies product database infrastructure
• Design, build, and maintain core database infrastructure components that allow the Teaching Strategies platform to scale to support hundreds of thousands of concurrent users
• Support and troubleshoot database production issues across all services and layers of the stack
• Document your learnings to share with the team via runbooks and automation
• Occasional domestic travel required for in-person team, department, and company meetings

Qualifications:

• Minimum of 8 years of database and production support experience in a SaaS environment
• Experience with Postgres, including AWS RDS and RDS Aurora
• Proficiency with IaC tools such as Terraform
• Proficiency with configuration management tools such as Ansible and Salt
• Experience with database IaC migration tools such as Flyway or Sqitch
• Production experience owning 24x7x365 mission-critical customer-facing services with >= 99.9% SLA
• Strong knowledge of highly availability and geographically distributed architectures
• Experience developing CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins or BitBucket Pipelines
• Experience with monitoring and logging tools such as New Relic and AWS CloudWatch
• Experience with Agile methodology and passion for software development best practices
• Excellent troubleshooting and problem solving skills
• A passion for learning new technologies
• Strong sense of collaboration, teamwork, and ownership
• You dream in SQL
• Bonus: Experience with MongoDB and/or ElasticSearch
• Bonus: Experience working for a SaaS B2B company

Why Teaching Strategies

At Teaching Strategies, our solutions and services are only as strong as the teams that create them. By bringing passion, dedication, and creativity to your job every day, there's no telling what you can do and where you can go! We provide a competitive compensation and benefits package, flexible work schedules, opportunities to engage with co-workers, access to career advancement and professional development opportunities, and the chance to make a difference in the communities we serve.

Let's open the door to your career at Teaching Strategies!

Some additional benefits & perks while working with Teaching Strategies

Teaching Strategies offers our employees a robust suite of benefits and other perks which include:

• Competitive compensation package, including Employee Equity Appreciation Program
• Health insurance benefits
• 401k with employer match
• 100% remote work environment
• Unlimited paid time off (which includes paid holidays and Winter Break)
• Paid parental leave
• Tuition assistance and Professional development and growth opportunities
• 100% paid life, short and long term disability insurance
• Pre-tax medical and dependent care flexible spending accounts (FSA)
• Voluntary life and critical illness insurance

Teaching Strategies, LLC is committed to creating a diverse workplace and is proud to be an equal opportunity employer of Minorities, all Genders, Protected Veterans, and Individuals with Disabilities.