Database Engineer, User Data Platform

Database Engineer (NoSQL), Business Data Platform

Full-time

Bellevue, WA (Downtown)

Get to know the team:

The Data Insights team, also known as the Business Data Platform, owns the online real-time single source of truth for all user data at Grab.

Get to know the Role:

Are you a NoSQL Database Engineer? You can be part of Grab and get to work on and support one of the largest and fastest growing datasets of any company in South East Asia. We operate in a challenging, fast paced and ever changing environment that will push you to grow and learn.

The day-to-day activities:

• Design/Build/Maintain the end-to-end of the database in the cloud (AWS).

• Perform database capacity planning and maintenance, monitoring and performance tuning

• Diagnose and troubleshoot any database performance issues and employ measures to prevent recurrence

• Work with engineering and operations team in building tooling to drive scalability, reliability and performance

• Research and develop new technologies and approaches for building highly available data persistence systems

• Advice and support product, engineering, support and operation teams

• Participate in on-call rotations

They must haves:

• Preferably a degree in computer science, software engineering, information technology or related fields

• In depth knowledge of any NoSQL database is a must

• Strong performance tuning, support, troubleshooting skills of the databases. Work with engineers and developers on maintaining the data integrating and database (NOSQL) performance in the cloud.

• Great attention to details, thinking through downstream effects of data architecture on data mining business intelligence and analysis, as well as pre-emptively diagnosing potential pain points for stakeholders

• Strong, recent, hands on expertise in data architecture and programming utilizing Postgres, Cassandra, MongoDB, Dynamodb, etc.

• Strong SQL and data modeling background

• Strong Python or shell scripting

• Production support experience

Good to have:

• You've worked with Amazon Web Services (AWS) technologies

• Experience with installing, configuring and monitoring NoSQL cluster in design data models in NoSQL database

• Experience in design data models in NoSQL database

• Experience in Performance tuning NoSQL cluster to optimize writes and reads