Description:

Varo is an entirely new kind of bank that is all digital, mission-driven, FDIC insured, and designed for the way customers live their lives.
The Database Engineering Team plays a key role in building products that improve the financial well-being of customers.
The Staff Cloud Database Engineer will be responsible for cloud database services, driving the vision and ownership for all enterprise database systems.
This role involves building and improving infrastructure and processes, leading and mentoring teams, and coordinating with stakeholders.
Responsibilities include understanding database requirements, planning capacity, driving observability, executing maintenance, and building enterprise-level roadmaps for database initiatives.
The engineer will provide architecture consultation for optimal database design and performance, resolve database issues, and improve operational support.
Regular database training will be provided, including discussions with development teams on best practices and risk mitigation.
The engineer will monitor and be on-call for all aspects of databases, including hardware and internal components.
Identifying and resolving database contention and performance issues is also a key responsibility.

Requirements:

Candidates must have 8+ years of Postgres Database Administration experience on RDS.
A minimum of 8+ years of AWS Database Administration experience (Dynamo, RedShift, etc.) is required.
Candidates should have 8+ years of experience with systems administration in a Linux environment.
A minimum of 5+ years of experience on AWS, particularly with IAM, EC2, S3, RDS, and DMS, is necessary.
A solid understanding of distributed computing environments, including distributed SQL systems, is essential.
Expertise in database administration activities such as installation, configuration, backup & recovery, query optimizations, creating roles, managing user permissions, and resolving deadlocks is required.
Candidates must have expertise with query analyzers and query tuning.
Experience in implementing different types of replication models like Snapshot, Merge, and Transactional is necessary.
Expertise in handling database maintenance with minimal to zero downtime is required.

The salary range for this role is $180,000 - $220,000 per year, based on function, level, and geographic location.
Final offer amounts are determined by multiple factors, including candidate experience and expertise, and may vary from the identified range.