About the opportunity
We are looking for a Staff Platform Engineer with a particular focus on Databases to join our Developer Platform team. Working closely with the Data Engineering team and with other Staff and Principal engineers in the domain, you will be responsible for collaborating on design, development and runtime of automation solutions for all kinds of data storage systems.
Note that this is not a traditional DBA role, our development teams are responsible for managing their database instances. Rather, this is a role which is responsible for creating solutions and automation to enable those development teams to deploy and run databases in a consistent and safe manner.
What you need to be successful
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- Proven experience at managing large numbers of database instances in the cloud
- Knowledge and understanding of both SQL (eg PostgreSQL, MySQL) and NoSQL (eg AWS DynamoDB, MongoDB) databases, including the ability to advise customers on when to pick one or the other
- Knowledge and experience of data migration strategies, including the ability to make trade-offs between availability and speed, and including defensive coding to ensure safe rollbacks where necessary
- Good attention to detail and ensuring that we are creating resilient and high-quality solutions for our (internal) customers
- Good understanding of automation solutions (for example AWS ACK, Terraform or similar)
- Comfort with coding or scripting (we mainly use Go and/or Python) to create APIs to automate processes and procedures, allowing developers to deploy databases and other pieces of infrastructure in a controlled, managed and repeatable way
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Who we are
“To be the most loved everyday food and groceries destination!” - that’s our mission at foodpanda (small ‘f’).
foodpanda is the largest food and grocery delivery platform in Asia, outside of China. Operating in more than 400 cities across 11 markets, we continue to expand and grow in our core food delivery business, as well as in new verticals like grocery deliveries, with a strong tech infrastructure at our core. From our restaurants-partners, cloud kitchens and cloud grocery stores — foodpanda is just one tap away, getting everything you need into your hands quickly and conveniently!
If you love working with technology to create solutions and are not afraid to roll up your sleeves to get things done, you will find your tribe here at foodpanda. foodpanda comprises of people from more than 60 nationalities, and we believe in winning through diversity.
foodpanda is part of the Delivery Hero Group, the world’s leading local delivery platform operating in 70+ countries worldwide
