About Team & About Role:

As a database engineer on the RSC Platform Engineering team, you’ll own the fundamental database infrastructure components that all other Rubrik Security Cloud product teams at Rubrik build upon. You’ll own database architecture for both online and analytics/offline use cases. This role requires strong SQL expertise including schema design and performance tuning. This is an exciting time to join as we are constantly innovating on scaling and operating our foundational services to support product growth.

What You’ll Do: 

Rubrik Database Engineers are self-starters, driven, and can manage themselves. We believe in giving engineers responsibility, not tasks. Our goal is to motivate and challenge people to do their best work. Bottom line, if you have a limitless drive and like to win, we want to talk to you - Come make history! 

Experience You’ll Need:

• 12+ years of experience designing and managing relational databases with a focus on performance, security, scalability, reliability, high-availability, and disaster recovery.
• Experience working with high traffic OLTP databases preferably MySQL.
• Experience with scripting and automation  using languages such as Go/Scala/Python/Java.
• Experience with backend development and distributed systems.
• Experience operating database layer of a large scale SaaS product 
• Experience operating mission-critical database applications in on-premise, cloud or in hybrid cloud environments.

Preferred qualifications:

• Experience in database design and architecture supporting large enterprise customers with high SLO and SLA requirements.
• Deep expertise in MySQL or relational database internals and diagnosing issues around storage, memory, performance and tuning. ETL experience is also preferred. 

About the job

• Ensure we maintain high availability and durability of our databases
• Ensure our customers can backup and recover their data without any glitches
• Design, implement and maintain relational database systems for performance and reliability
• Own and evolve the data model for various Rubrik cloud product lines
• Establish best practices for internal teams to write performant SQL queries
• Tune and configure our databases as well as build tools and scripts to monitor, troubleshoot, and automate our systems
• Propose test plans, interface with external groups, developers and application owners to arrive at optimal solutions
• Perform periodic database upgrades minimizing downtime for our customers
• Design and enhance disaster recovery and backup procedures

With your technical expertise, you design, implement and improve processes, procedures and automation for all database-centric areas. You also test the systems in place and interface with external groups.

Responsibilities

• Identify customer pain-points proactively, and help improve customer experience through software enhancements, tools, documentation, guidelines, and more.
• Develop relationships with internal product teams, product managers, and key enterprise customers and engage with them to address issues and recommend best practices like query tuning, schema design, instance sizing, flag settings, extensions, and the likes. Help customers perform experiments and scale with different settings to tune (MySQL) instances for their workloads.
• Perform capacity planning, scaling strategies on production databases to support projected growth.
• Contribute code actively to improve the product and the core database observability, and to make it more secure and robust.
• Provide advisory and training to the engineering team.
• Partner and help drive great cross-functional relationships with internal leadership, stakeholders, and partners to help create highly reliable database services experience for our feature engineering teams.