Responsibilities

• Design, build, and maintain HRT’s SQL and NoSQL database infrastructure, supporting a globally distributed trading infrastructure and extending to large-scale research
• Configure and scale PostgreSQL and MySQL servers for trade-critical, real-time workflows
• Investigate and improve performance of PostgreSQL and MySQL queries and supporting infrastructure (Debian Linux)
• Transform the metrics and alerting landscape with Prometheus, VictoriaMetrics, and Grafana
• Architect and deploy Redis based key/value stores for current and future use-cases
• Engineer and apply infrastructure-as-code tools and services (Salt, Terraform, and others)
• Build and test proof of concept datastores to fit consumer use cases

Qualifications 

• 5+ years of experience working in database management and infrastructure engineering
• Proven expertise in designing and implementing production database infrastructure, from security and replication to observability (monitoring, alerting, logging)
• Solid familiarity with state-of-the-art DB technologies and tradeoffs (distributed DBs, time-series DBs, relaxed consistency models, columnar storage)
• Experience with dynamic clustering solutions such as Patroni
• Strong knowledge and experience with Linux (especially Debian)
• Extensive experience with PostgreSQL or MySQL
• Solid programming with the ability to write Python with an understanding of data structures and the principles of software design
• Performance troubleshooting, and networking knowledge
• Experience with Redis, Prometheus, VictoriaMetrics and Grafana preferred