Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. PayNearMe provides a payment experience platform that helps businesses and their customers make and receive payments simply, quickly, and securely. The DataOps Engineer will implement, monitor, and maintain SQL databases, assist with infrastructure-as-code deployments, support database design best practices, and contribute to the development of the company’s next-generation data architecture.

Responsibilities

• Assist senior engineers in the design of data models and schemas, and participate in code walk-throughs
• Support performance tuning efforts on SQL queries regarding applications, storage, and network
• Explore and utilize AI-powered tools and automation solutions to increase efficiency in DataOps workflows and reduce manual toil
• Follow established processes for data quality, data governance, testing, and on-going monitoring
• Assist in the analysis of current systems and support the implementation of database designs to support our business applications
• Adhere to established data models, modeling naming standards, abbreviations, guidelines, and best practices
• Assist in translating logical data models and implementing physical database structures
• Monitor data service costs and flag potential cost inefficiencies to senior team members
• Maintain and update documentation for database architectures

Skills

• At least 3 years of cloud database design & implementation experience including:
• Proficiency with SQL database solutions including Aurora PostgreSQL, Aurora MySQL, and Snowflake
• Proficiency with SQL and writing performant queries; we use MySQL, PostgreSQL, and SnowSQL
• Proficiency with database IAC frameworks; we use Terraform/OpenTofu
• Strong experience with relational database design and data modeling techniques
• Familiarity with leveraging AI-powered tools and scripting for automation in areas like monitoring, alerting, or system maintenance
• Experience with data security and data governance techniques
• Experience monitoring database systems and independently researching and resolving incidents; we use AWS services such as RDS Database Insights and CloudWatch as well as Datadog
• Highly collaborative team player
• Strong programming experience, preferably in Python, or other object oriented language
• Build highly reliable systems
• Strong diagnostic skills
• Strong organizational and communication skills
• AWS Certification preferred

Benefits

• Competitive salary and benefits with growth-company options grant
• Stock options with standard startup vesting - 1 year cliff; 4 years total
• $50 monthly communication expense stipend to go towards your phone/internet bill
• $250 stipend to enhance your WFH setup
• Reimbursement for peripheral equipment: monitor (up to $400), keyboard and mouse (up to $200)
• Premium medical benefits including vision and dental (100% coverage for employees)
• Company-sponsored life and disability insurance
• Paid parental bonding leave
• Paid sick leave, jury duty, bereavement
• 401k plan
• Flexible Time Off (our team members typically take off ~3-4 weeks per year)
• Volunteer Time Off
• 13 scheduled holidays

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