Staff Cloud Database Engineer

Varo is an entirely new kind of bank. All digital, mission-driven, FDIC insured and designed for the way our customers live their lives. A bank for all of us.

ABOUT THE DATA ENGINEERING TEAM

Varo is an entirely new kind of bank. All digital, mission-driven, FDIC insured and designed for the way our customers live their lives. A bank for all of us. The Data Engineering Team is helping to build an entire bank from scratch. Our goal is to repair the stale banking industry and build products that help improve the financial well-being of our customers. You will get to work with new technology stacks, be part of a great and diverse workplace, and improve the financial lives of others. In our Engineering team, we value personal growth, initiative and ownership, collaboration, and the importance of thinking like an engineer.

ABOUT THE CLOUD DATABASE ENGINEER ROLE

Varo is seeking a talented and energetic Staff Cloud Database Engineer to join our team. You'll be responsible for managing our cloud database infrastructure, as well as working closely with IT, Engineering, QA, and Analytics teams to understand, build and improve our infrastructure and processes.

What you'll be doing

• Work with stakeholders to understand database requirements, plan capacity and execute build
• Provide consultation around optimal database design and performance 
• Work with the Varo Engineering teams to help reproduce and resolve active database issues
• Implement strategies for operational support including monitoring, performance analysis, testing, and debugging
• Troubleshoot issues in development through to production environments
• Scale database clusters up/down
• Provide regular database training including holding discussions with development teams regarding best practices, trade-offs, and risk mitigation
• Monitor hardware performance including server CPU, disk and memory utilization and identify any issues using AWS and database monitoring tools.
• Monitor database performance including tables, indexes, error logs, transaction logs, user sessions, and buffers.
• Identify and resolve database contention and performance issues (slow-running queries, bottlenecks, and other latency related issues)
• Provide alerts and escalations when critical events occur such as loss of availability of databases, utilization exceeds established thresholds, failover occurrences, etc.

You'll bring the following required skills and experiences

• 3+ years experience in Python programming
• 3+ years of Postgres Database Administration experience on RDS
• 3+ years of AWS Redshift Database Administration experience
• 5+ years of experience with systems administration in a Linux environment
• 3+ years of experience on AWS - particularly IAM, EC2, S3, RDS, DMS
• Solid understanding of distributed computing environments
• Experience in database administration activities like installation, configuration, backup & recovery, query optimizations, creating roles, managing user permissions and resolving deadlocks
• Experience with query analyzers and query tuning
• Experience in implementing different types of replication models like Snapshot, Merge and Transactional

#MidSenior

We recognize not everyone will have all of these requirements. If you meet most of the criteria above and you’re excited about the opportunity and willing to learn, we’d love to hear from you!

About Varo

Varo launched in 2017 with the vision to bring the best of fintech into the regulated banking system. We’re a new kind of bank – all-digital, mission-driven, FDIC-insured, and designed around the modern American consumer. 

As the first consumer fintech to be granted a national bank charter in 2020, we make financial inclusion and opportunity for all a reality by empowering everyone with the products, insights, and support they need to get ahead. Through our core product offerings and suite of customer-first features, we aim to address a broad range of consumer needs while profitably serving underserved communities that have been historically excluded from the traditional financial system.

We are growing quickly in our hub locations of San Francisco, Salt Lake City, and Charlotte along with colleagues located across the country. We have been recognized among Fast Company’s Most Innovative Companies, Forbes’ Fintech 50, and earned the No. 7 spot on Inc. 5000’s list of fastest-growing companies across the country.

Varo. A bank for all of us.

Our Core Values

- Customers First

- Take Ownership

- Respect

- Stay Curious

- Make it Better

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Varo is an equal opportunity employer. Varo embraces diversity and we are committed to building teams that represent a variety of backgrounds, perspectives, and skills. All applicants will be considered for employment without attention to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, veteran or disability status.

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