What are the responsibilities and job description for the Senior Software Engineer, Database Engineering position at Peloton?
We are looking for engaged and passionate Software Engineers to join our Database Engineering team. We enable developers to move quickly and innovate by providing the foundation upon which developers build the Peloton experience.
Our team's mission is to provide databases as a service and to guide and support development in the database layer. We work heavily with postgres and dynamoDB but are expanding the number and types of datastores as Peloton grows. We work closely with service owners on architecture and scalability of their services and have an opportunity to work with new projects and initiatives. We engage with peers and internal customers to understand workloads and design, build and operate services and tools to provide a great user experience for engineers.
What you’ll do
- Design and build features for our new Database as a Service product as we scale it out across Peloton
- Be directly responsible for maintaining and scaling our datastore layer in coordination with service owners to power a world-class fitness experience.
- Lead, coach, and mentor junior engineers of diverse backgrounds in an autonomous, cross-functional team.
- Design, develop and operate business-critical backend systems with a focus on high availability, low latency and scalability.
- Implement self-service tooling and enhance the developer experience around databases as a service.We're using industry-standard, cloud-native tech, which means easily transferable skills.
- Deliver high quality outcomes across our engineering organization.
What You’ll Need
- Demonstrated experience in your software engineering practice, with strong experience in practices like continuous delivery and automated testing.
- Ability to work collaboratively with your team and with customers and the ability to demonstrate empathy for their concerns.
- Experience in designing, building and maintaining automation and developer tooling around distributed systems and databases.
- You have a systematic problem-solving approach coupled with effective communication skills and drive.
- You are able to apply your knowledge and experience in both structured and unstructured DB technologies to help improve our database offering.
Bonus Points
- Github project(s) or contribute to open source communities
- Experience with React.js or other front end javascript frameworks
- Hands on experience decomposing monoliths into microservices
- Hands-on experience designing and building event-driven architectures
- Experience with XP practices such as pair programming and Test Driven Development
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