As a Database Team Lead at Deriv, you will play a critical role within the highly talented Infrastructure and Resilience group. You will use your extensive experience to ensure that our databases are highly scalable, secure, performant and resilient. Leading a team of DBAs, and in collaboration with product developers and other teams, you will guarantee the security, integrity, and seamless flow of information for our high-traffic online trading platform.
Your challenges
The role is technically challenging and fast-paced. You will need to show initiative, and take responsibility for resolving complex problems.
Keeping your team focused, balancing leadership and hands-on technical work.
Critical and wide-ranging maintenance and improvement initiatives. For example, you might be migrating our database clusters to kubernetes, automating data sanitization, or reviewing database access code.
You will proactively monitor the database landscape, looking for ways to innovate and refine to meet ever increasing volume, performance, security and availability challenges.
Managing, inspiring, nurturing and growing junior members of the team.
The role requires multi-site collaboration over different time zones.
Our team
The team covers all research & development projects and production support activities relating to in-memory caches, relational databases and long term storage.
As Deriv\xe2\x80\x99s operations and transaction volumes grow in size, developing products and services requires ongoing innovation to provide enhanced scalability, performance, security, and disaster recovery. Join us to realise these ambitions with your knowledge and engineering experience and expertise.
Requirements
10+ years of recent experience as a database engineer or DBA - with PostgreSQL, SQL, PL/pgSQL or similar technologies.
Experience of leadership and a desire to lead a strong team.
Extensive experience working with large, distributed, high-performance, high availability databases with 24/7 uptime.
Excellent software development skills, with at least one multi-purpose language such as Java, .NET or Python.
Knowledge of Linux, Shell Scripting and AWS/GCP.
A university degree in software engineering, computer science, or a related field.
Excellent communication skills. Fluency in spoken and written English.
Ability to travel, occasionally, between office locations across the globe.
What\xe2\x80\x99s Good To Have
Experience in the fintech and/or trading industries.
Experience with devops automation tooling such as Terraform, Kubernetes.
Experience with database CI/CD tools and implementation.
Experience with SQL Server, MySQL and Redis.
Benefits
Market-based salary
Annual performance bonus
Medical insurance
Housing and transportation allowance
Casual dress code
Work permit
A chance to work with top talent from across the globe (70+ nationalities)
Ample team-building and bonding activities
Great overseas travel opportunities
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