At commercetools, we are:
Engaged: We didn't become the fastest growing, highest ever valued SaaS software company in digital commerce with nearly 100% year-over-year growth by sitting on the sidelines.
Inspired: We continually explore what's possible. As the founder of the headless commerce concept, the leader in true composable commerce, and the visionaries behind MACH® — our patented tech has radically disrupted the world of enterprise ecommerce software. And we are just getting started!
Valued: Intelligent, resilient, passionate individuals hailing from over 50 countries across the globe, speaking over 43 languages, and collectively embracing diversity, encouraging inclusion, and fostering a culture of care.
The Opportunity:
We are searching for a passionate and innovative Staff Engineer with a focus on Database Infrastructure Management to join our team. Our Staff Engineer will lead the infrastructure strategy for our global database operations.
Your Mission:
- Lead cross-discipline database infrastructure initiatives that affect a wide range of teams
- Advise teams on optimal usage of available database systems so that applications perform at cloud scale
- Enable teams to securely self-service databases by defining and rolling out database policies and solutions
- Ensure database-related High Availability and Disaster Recovery objectives are met across the organization
- Define and rollout prescribed database solutions and policies
- Extend and create tooling to automatically rightsize databases according to capacity requirements and performance demands
- Contribute to the tech strategy in alignment with commercetools' overall growth strategy
What you need to succeed:
- Proven experience operating MongoDB infrastructure, in a lead or senior role
- Ability to collaborate with third party vendors to address organizational needs
- Track record of developing deeply technical strategies to meet business objectives
- Insight into industry-leading database fleet management strategies
- Leadership skills grown from guiding storage infrastructure teams
- Communication skills to align your peers and management on optimal solutions
- Enthusiasm for writing and sharing information: RFCs, meeting summaries, ideas, plans, etc.
- Proficient writing software in at least one strongly typed language
Nice to have:
- Experience with Postgres, ElasticSearch, Redis, or other database solutions
- Experience with Infrastructure as Code: Terraform and Ansible
- Experience with Cloud and managed Database Providers: AWS, GCP, Azure, MongoDB Atlas
Tech at commercetools:
We Are Open Source And Innovative By Design
- We make rapid progress by being early adopters of React, Scala, and GraphQL
- We share & contribute to the open source community
- We love Automation and Machine Learning
We care about your Growth and Well-being
- Competitive compensation package: Generous compensation structure consisting of salary, competitive stock option package, various benefits and perks
- Remote Work: Up to 60 days/year from a country different from your base country
- Open Learning & Development Budget
- ct Academy: Regular internal training sessions
- Flexibility: Morning person or night owl? We believe in outcome and motivated employees
- Mindset & Growth: A diverse, creative workspace with an international culture & learning environment
