Senior Database Engineer

PENN Entertainment is North America’s leading provider of integrated entertainment, sports content, and casino gaming experiences. They are seeking a Senior Database Engineer to join their Engineering team, focusing on database architecture, performance, and reliability while utilizing cloud technologies.

Responsibilities:

• Evaluate current database architectures and suggest improvements to maintain performance and availability
• Work within agile scrum & kanban to foster Engineering and support efforts
• Support the engineering organization by responding to database outages, helping triage, and remediating any database-related issues
• Support the engineering organization by evaluating database schemas, partitions, views and queries, implementing changes to increase database performance
• Manage and maintain replication between databases, ensuring resilience and the ability to recover from faults (observability platform in place already)
• Product choice decisions, design methods, and modelling for AWS and GCP database direction
• DB architecture to support our business continuity plan, backups, compute, network and storage development, using Terraform to automate deployment/creation leveraging GitOps
• Build and develop a common database design architecture that can be easily replicated for new database installations
• Other duties as required

Requirements:

• Ability to work with K8S operators. Specifically Zalando and CNPG
• Experience with Postgres, Kafka (other distributed event streaming systems), ETLs and CDC
• 5+ years of hands on Database Engineering (Postgres preferred)
• 5+ years working within an AWS or GCP cloud environment
• 3+ years of high-level programming experience in Python or Go
• Strong database monitoring experience
• Strong database architecture experience
• Strong Kubernetes production experience
• Experience working with applications requiring compliance audits
• Experience with production support issues, and how to remediate in a timely manner
• Experience building infrastructure as code via IaC (preferably terraform)