The opportunity
Branch is on a mission to empower workers with financial freedom. We do this by helping companies accelerate payments and providing working Americans with accessible, free financial services.
What you'll do
Lead, and take ownership of our core database systems to ensure high levels: of performance, availability, and security
Communicate critical data changes to the data warehousing team
Work alongside both engineering teams and data teams to shepherd schema: changes from design to deployment to ensure architectural and downstream compatibility
Build and maintain automated test and deployment data pipelines, including: production level data testing at scale, with SRE and DevOps teams
Proactively work on detecting weak areas and incorporate into automated: monitoring and production alerting with our Cloud Ops teams
Document and automate processes to eliminate time spent on recurring tasks
What they're looking for
- Evaluate new database features (and products if needed) to meet scalability and global uptime requirements
- Own database backup and recovery, and help establish disaster recovery: targets and practices as the systems scale
- Support, debug, and perform RCA on production database issues, and participate in incident response as needed
- + years of experience managing MySQL/CloudSQL at scale
