Senior Cassandra DBA

We are looking for a Senior Cassandra DBA to join our Database Engineering organization. At Grubhub, the Database Engineering organization owns the top-level reliability, observability, and availability of the Datastore platforms, including but not limited to Cassandra, ElasticSearch and Kafka. This team contributes to projects, services, designs, and processes with the aim to steward good architecture and provide tools and services to enable software engineering teams to measure and meet reliability agreements.

The Impact You Will Make:

Manage large critical Cassandra, Elasticsearch and Kafka clusters supporting millions of transactions per day

Develop self-service tools to allow engineers to manage and provision resources with GrubHub best practices

Monitor cluster availability, read/ write latencies, and other important performance metrics to proactively identify SLO misses and help mitigate issues

Tune Cassandra, ElasticSearch and Kafka databases for optimizing throughput and read /write latencies

Build systems to automate all build and maintenance tasks using Ansible and python

Evaluate new technologies and software versions. Test and develop roadmaps

On-call rotation support for rapid incident response

Implement DR strategies, including backups and recovery techniques with minimal downtime

Work closely with development teams to ensure optimal data model design and performance

Work with other engineers to manage our data persistence integration and performance with the GrubHub platform

Monitor and scale Elasticsearch/Cassandra clusters to handle growth in traffic

What You Bring To The Table:

Experience in Designing, Building, Maintaining, and Administrating at least one of the NoSQL distributed database systems - Cassandra, Kafka or Elasticsearch

Proficient in scripting languages and automation tools Python or Ansible

Proficient in performance tuning and optimization for Cassandra, Kafka or Elasticsearch

Experience managing automated cloud infrastructures on AWS or other major cloud providers

Experience developing backend applications in Python or Java

Strong understanding of database security best practices

Communicate effectively with team members and stakeholders on database-related matters

Ability to quickly learn new concepts and technologies and adapt to changing needs

About Our Tech:

Most of our internal tooling is written in Python.

Most of our microservices are written in Java

Observability tools we use: Datadog, Splunk, Lightstep.

Our primary persistence store is Cassandra

We operate in 3 Amazon regions (hot+hot+hot)

And Of Course, Perks!

Flexible PTO. Grubhub employees enjoy a generous amount of time to recharge.

Health and Wellness. Excellent medical, dental and vision benefits, 401k matching, employee network groups and paid parental leave are just a few of our programs to support your overall well-being.

Compensation. You'll receive a great compensation package with eligibility for generous incentives, bonuses, commission, or RSUs (role-specific).

Free Meals. Our employees get a weekly Grubhub credit to enjoy and support local restaurants.

Social Impact. We believe in giving back through programs like the Grubhub Community Relief Fund, and provide our employees opportunities to support causes that are important to them.

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