Staff Engineer, Database Engineering (Mailchimp)

Company Overview

Intuit is the global financial technology platform that powers prosperity for the people and communities we serve. With approximately 100 million customers worldwide using products such as TurboTax, Credit Karma, QuickBooks, and Mailchimp, we believe that everyone should have the opportunity to prosper.

We never stop working to find new, innovative ways to make that possible.

Qualifications

• Experience with cloud services, databases, and datastores such as Amazon RDS, Spanner, CloudSQL, Postgresql and / or MySQL.
• Experience with cloud technologies including AWS,or GCP.
• Strong scripting experience in multiple languages such as shell, PHP, Python, Golang etc.
• Experience with database architecture, design, replication, clustering, HA / DR.
• Experience with automation tools such as Terraform, Puppet, GitHub, and RunDeck.
• Experience with modern technologies and container orchestration (Kubernetes, Docker), service deployment, monitoring and scaling.
• Demonstrated experience making pragmatic technical choices.
• Extensive experience working in large-scale technology environments with teams spanning many locations.
• Strong analytical, debugging, and interpersonal skills.
• Self-starter, highly motivated and ability to learn quickly.
• Excellent team player with strong collaboration, analytical, verbal, and written communication skills.

Responsibilities

Are you passionate about database technologies? Do you love to solve complex database challenges while partnering with outstanding product developers?

If yes, you could be a fit for the Staff Engineer role on our Database Engineering team.

This role is responsible for managing and monitoring Mailchimp’s Database Infrastructure, both in colocation facilities and in the cloud (AWS, GCP). You will

• Work cross functionally with Intuit teams to provide guidance on data storage best practices and help them solve customer problems.
• Work with product developers to improve database performance and resiliency.
• Support the migration of databases from colocation facilities to the cloud.
• Provide support for large scale database instances across production, non-production, and development environments.
• Perform regular upgrades and patches to address security vulnerabilities.
• Support and improve database availability and scalability.
• Serve in an on-call rotation supporting the database infrastructure and respond to production incidents
• Mentor team members
• Generate technical documentation to communicate architectural and design options, and educate leadership, development teams and business users.
• Provide perspective on leading industry trends, recommendations on new and emerging technologies, and engineering process improvements

Intuit provides a competitive compensation package with a strong pay for performance rewards approach. The expected base pay range for this position is New York $180,500 - $244,000.

This position will be eligible for a cash bonus, equity rewards and benefits, in accordance with our applicable plans and programs .

Pay offered is based on factors such as job-related knowledge, skills, experience, and work location. To drive ongoing pay equity for employees, Intuit conducts regular comparisons across categories of ethnicity and gender.