Principal Database Engineer

Join Udemy, a leading AI-powered skills acceleration platform, and help define the future of learning. As a Principal Database Engineer, you'll lead improvement projects for datastores and platform teams, maintain infrastructure uptime, and ensure adherence to compliance requirements.

Requirements

• 8-10 years of professional experience working in a Cloud Engineering team with Infrastructure responsibilities in managing large production workloads
• Proficiency with managing MySQL at scale
• Strong understanding in running Production Workloads in Kubernetes
• Proficiency with tools like Terraform, Ansible, Git and how to work with Infrastructure as Code, and automated provisioning
• Strong experience in Kafka cluster management, topic configuration, performance tuning, and ensuring high availability and fault tolerance
• Experience with Message Queues (MQ/SQS) and Caching (Redis, Memcache) or similar products
• Experience in Python
• Knowledge of configuration management tools, monitoring systems for database infrastructure, and scaling strategies for handling increased data volumes
• Strong troubleshooting skills to diagnose complex database issues
• Hands-on experience with AWS cloud infrastructure and a grasp of security best practices

Benefits

• Full access to Udemy courses
• Monthly UDay to invest in yourself
• Budget to spend on self-improvement
• Use of AI in the way we learn and work
• Ownership of work and trust in decision-making
• Collaborative environment and open idea-sharing
• Impact on helping people grow their skills and change their careers