Senior Software Engineer, Databases

Squarespace

New York City, NY

Full Time

Senior

129k-232k

10 days ago

Job Description

About the Role

The Relational Database Team manages the fundamental building blocks used by both customer-facing and internal systems at Squarespace to store and process data. Your job will be to develop solutions that help scale and modernize our relational database infrastructure and operate in a global, active-active, distributed systems environment. We employ a variety of open source technologies in our tech stack that address a variety of needs (caching, databases, queues, and workflow orchestration). We are investing in the cloud and you will play a critical role in that. This is a hybrid role working from our NYC office 3 days per week. You will report to the Senior Software Engineering Manager.

Key Responsibilities

Support our relational database infrastructure comprised of Postgres, CockroachDB, Consul, and GCP equivalent alternatives (i.e. CloudSQL).
Work with our users to determine capacity and functionality requirements, develop monitoring tools, and maintain reliable operations.
Partner with our client teams to understand the optimal configuration for applications that use both stateful and stateless services.
In the short-term we are focused on migrating our infrastructure to the cloud using GCP but in the longer term there is so much opportunity to improve our current infrastructure to use the many alternatives that exist in the marketplace.

Requirements

Experience relevant to Postgres, CockroachDB, and GCP.
Expertise developing backend services, ETL streaming, and message processing using compiled languages.
5+ years of experience writing automation scripts and libraries in the data world.
Proficiency in CI/CD tools (Jenkins, GitLab, etc.).

Nice to Have

Experience with open source technologies addressing caching, databases, queues, and workflow orchestration.
Experience with cloud migration and infrastructure modernization.

Qualifications

Experience with Postgres, CockroachDB, and GCP.
Developing backend services, ETL streaming, and message processing using compiled languages.
5+ years of experience writing automation scripts and libraries in the data world.

Benefits & Perks

A choice between medical plans with an option for 100% covered premiums including medical, dental, and vision.
Supplemental Life and Disability Insurance plans.
Fertility and adoption benefits.
Headspace mindfulness app subscription.
Global Employee Assistance Program.
Retirement benefits with employer match.
Flexible paid time off.
20 weeks for parental leave and up to 12 weeks to care for an ill family member.
Pretax commuter benefit.
Education reimbursement.
Employee donation match to community organizations.
8 Global Employee Resource Groups (ERGs).
Dog-friendly workplace.
Free lunch and snacks.
Private rooftop.
Hack week twice per year.

Working at Squarespace

Squarespace is a design-driven platform helping entrepreneurs build brands and businesses online. We empower millions of customers in more than 200 countries and territories with all the tools they need to create an online presence, build an audience, monetize, and scale their business. Our team of more than 1,500 is headquartered in bustling New York City, with offices in Dublin, Ireland, Aveiro, Portugal, and coworking spaces in the UK, Netherlands, and Australia. We embrace diversity and are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ethnicity, religion, gender, sexual orientation, age, disability, veteran status, or other protected classes.

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