Company Overview
Valimail is a fast growing, venture funded startup and the leader in Email Authentication as a Service. Here is your chance to get in on the ground floor at an important technology innovator and to help build a major business service category. We have built a revolutionary platform on top of open standards — DMARC, DKIM, and SPF — for the first time it makes it possible for any organization to protect itself against email impersonation. Valimail pioneered the notion of automated email authentication, with innovative components like our DNS-based Authenticator (including our patented Instant SPF). We’re committed to building a more trusted email ecosystem.
Frequently cited statistics show that women and underrepresented classes will only apply to roles if they feel they meet 100% of the qualifications. At Valimail, we encourage you to break through that statistic. Roles evolve over time, especially with innovation, and you may be just the person we need in the future. NO ONE ever meets 100% of the qualifications. We hope you're open to learning new skills in order to grow with us. Make our team, your team!
Position Overview
As part of our dedication to building a more trusted email ecosystem, we work closely with industry leading companies to improve the space for everyone. As the number of initiatives, organizations, and conversations scale up significantly, Valimail has the need for a skilled Senior Site Reliability Engineer, Databases to help us meet these commitments and help the company scale. As Valimail’s next Senior Site Reliability Engineer, Databases, you will lead highly visible initiatives that help secure billions of inboxes!
The ideal candidate regularly demonstrates our behaviors/values (Be inclusive, Be Trustworthy, Be a Learner and Be Driven) in addition to demonstrating a strong technical acumen.
Frequently cited statistics show that women and underrepresented classes will only apply to roles if they feel they meet 100% of the qualifications. At Valimail, we encourage you to break through that statistic. Roles evolve over time, especially with innovation, and you may be just the person we need in the future. NO ONE ever meets 100% of the qualifications. We hope you're open to learning new skills in order to grow with us. Make our team, your team!
The application window for this role will close on December 6, 2024 and applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis.
What You'll Be Doing
- Evangelizing standard methodologies for building and operating highly reliable data storage systems
- Serving as the subject matter expert in datastore design and performance
- Building and supporting Valimail’s mission-critical datastores
- Conducting timely post mortems of production datastore incidents
- Collaboratively designing systems with other engineers to meet reliability, scalability, and performance requirements
- Providing assistance to teams working with datastores
- Automating routine database tasks
- Participating in on-call rotation and incident response.
- Upgrade data storage systems as necessary
About You
- 5+ years experience building and maintaining highly available relational databases.
- Work collaboratively with cross functional teams
- Value team success over individual success
- Put industry and engineering best practices into practice and promotes them to others
Passion for reliable, scalable, and performant datastores with strong sense of ownership - Experience building and supporting highly performant and highly reliable datastores
- Deep experience working with Postgres
- Expert in database fundamentals, SQL, PL/pgSQL, (or other)
- Experience with NOSQL datastores and caching solutions
- Working knowledge of AWS or Azure cloud providers
- Experience with Infrastructure-as-Code tools, such as Terraform
Who We Are
Valimail is the global leader in zero-trust email security. The company's full line of cloud-native solutions authenticate sender identity to stop phishing, protect brands, and ensure compliance; they are used by organizations ranging from neighborhood shops to some of the world's largest organizations, including Uber, Splunk, Yelp, Mercedes Benz USA, and the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration. Valimail is the fastest-growing DMARC solution with the largest global market share and is the premier DMARC partner for Microsoft 365 environments.
Valimail is an E-Verify Employer. For more information on E-Verify, review the posters here.
Why Join Us?
- Competitive pay + participation in employee stock option plan. The anticipated salary range for this role is $170,000 - $190,000. This role is eligible to participate in our equity incentive plan. Actual title and compensation is commensurate with qualifications and experience.
- Comprehensive health, dental, + vision coverage
- Six weeks of paid parental leave for all parents, and an additional 6 weeks for parents giving birth
- Remote First Company, you can work anywhere within the US
- Unlimited and flexible PTO. We believe balanced, happy, relaxed people do better work
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What We Do
Valimail is a pioneering, identity-based, anti-phishing company that has been ensuring the global trustworthiness of digital communications since 2015. Valimail delivers the only complete, cloud-native platform for validating and authenticating sender identity to stop phishing, protect and amplify brands, and ensure compliance. Valimail has won more than a dozen prestigious cybersecurity technology awards and authenticates billions of messages a month for some of the world's biggest companies and organizations, including Uber, Fannie Mae, WeWork, and the U.S. Agency for International Development.
Why Work With Us
Imagine a world where essential communications can be trusted. Starting with email, but dreaming about everything beyond, that’s the world we’re creating. We believe in going deep and being excellent about the technology we create to ensure honest and safe communications. Join our all-remote team to grow your career in a people-first culture.
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