Principal Cloud Database Architect

1 month ago


hyderabad, India New Relic, Inc. Full time
Principal Cloud Database Architect Principal Cloud Database Architect Principal Software Engineer Req ID FY|R&D|#9 Location(s) Hyderabad, India; Work arrangement(s) Hybrid (works from home and New Relic office throughout the week), Office (works primarily in a New Relic office) Your opportunity

Do you enjoy creating and driving a vision across multiple teams? Do you cherish discussions about complex distributed systems? Do you love data? We are looking for a Principal Database Architect and technical leader with deep domain expertise in databases and running multi-cloud ecosystems at scale This person will help set the technical direction for New Relic by leading New Relic’s database platform vision, implementation of a multi-cloud DBaaS, global expansion, developer tooling strategy, and edge computing services around the world. 

What you'll do Architect, design, and implement a scalable and highly available DBaaS platform based on Kubernetes, Go, MySQL, PostgreSQL, and Redis. Provide architectural guidance and best practices for database deployments, performance optimization, and security. Collaborate with executives and engineers to build and drive a technical vision for our database platform. Establish and promote clear architectural standards for databases and data stores Help teams choose the right tools for the job at hand and utilize the selected technologies efficiently. Make decisions by balancing competing priorities across the business and platform groups. Communicate, communicate, communicate: Architects serve as the connective tissue between teams and organizations for all technical matters. Providing architectural guidance and mentoring to multiple development teams Drive innovation by constantly looking at new technologies and frameworks that align with our future state vision and build reference architectures around them to evangelize across engineering teams

What your playground will look like:

A constantly evolving architecture, with hundreds of containerized databases across multiple agile teams. A multi-cloud environment ingesting over 3 billion data points per minute, petabytes of data per month, and accepting over billion HTTP requests a day from our customers. Kubernetes, MySQL, Postgres, Redis, Go, and that’s just the beginning of the technologies in our stack This role requires

If you are ready for this job, you have spent years building and supporting large distributed systems in the cloud. You know how to design and ship software while documenting it for others to understand. You keep up with technology trends and learn quickly. You enjoy technical debates while also promoting psychological safety and inclusivity.

8+ years experience in building and managing a distributed DbaaS (database as a service) platform and a passion for tackling complex distributed system challenges.

Proven expertise in building and maintaining secure, scalable, and highly available cloud-agnostic DBaaS platforms.

Strong experience in developing and maintaining database infrastructure on major public cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP).

Strong experience in architectural patterns and anti-patterns for resiliency, geo-availability, and disaster recovery.

Experience with large, complex, geographically distributed enterprise environments.

Proficient in Infrastructure-as-Code Terraform, Helm) for multi-cloud and multi-region deployment.

Skilled in optimizing cloud database infrastructure for reliability, availability, scale, performance, and cost.

Familiarity with modern cloud deployments, compute, storage, networking, containers, databases, and security.

Effective at driving transformational projects, and unifying technical teams around a common architecture.

Proven track record of setting and achieving ambitious goals, guided by metrics.

Excellent communication skills, capable of engaging both technical and executive audiences.

Comfortable working across time zones(IN\US\EU time zones) in a fast-paced setting.

Knowledgeable in Agile and other software development methodologies.

Bonus points if you have Experience in cloud DBaaS production environments Experience with Crossplane or similar tools for controlling cloud-managed services Valid Cloud Database Certifications RDBMS skills in SQL or NoSQL including schema design, query optimization, and performance tuning. Experience with Vector Database  Experience working in large SaaS environments

Fostering a diverse, welcoming and inclusive environment is important to us. We work hard to make everyone feel comfortable bringing their best, most authentic selves to work every day. We celebrate our talented Relics’ different backgrounds and abilities, and recognize the different paths they took to reach us – including nontraditional ones. Their experiences and perspectives inspire us to make our products and company the best they can be. We’re looking for people who feel connected to our mission and values, not just candidates who check off all the boxes. 

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Our hiring process
Please note that visa sponsorship is not available for this position.

In compliance with applicable law, all persons hired will be required to verify identity and eligibility to work and to complete employment eligibility verification. Note: Our stewardship of the data of thousands of customers’ means that a criminal background check is required to join New Relic.

Headhunters and recruitment agencies may not submit resumes/CVs through this website or directly to managers. New Relic does not accept unsolicited headhunter and agency resumes, and will not pay fees to any third-party agency or company that does not have a signed agreement with New Relic.

New Relic is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We foster a diverse, equitable, and inclusive environment, free from all types of discrimination, so our Relics can thrive. We hire people with different backgrounds, experiences, abilities and perspectives.

Candidates are evaluated based on qualifications, regardless of race, religion, ethnicity, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender expression or identity, age, disability, neurodiversity, veteran or marital status, political viewpoint, or other legally protected characteristics. 

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