Senior Database Engineer

Who we are Motive empowers the people who run physical operations with tools to make their work safer more productive and more profitable For the first time ever safety operations and finance teams can manage their drivers vehicles equipment and fleet related spend in a single system Combined with industry leading AI the Motive platform gives you complete visibility and control and significantly reduces manual workloads by automating and simplifying tasks Motive serves more than 120 000 customers - from Fortune 500 enterprises to small businesses - across a wide range of industries including transportation and logistics construction energy field service manufacturing agriculture food and beverage retail and the public sector Visit to learn more About the Role As a Database Engineer at Motive you will ensure that our databases are performant reliable scalable and automated While also acting as a DBA overseeing more than 100 databases almost all of which are Postgres you will also have a hand in the success of Motive s expanded use of AWS managed data layer services such as DynamoDB Elasticsearch and Redshift etc Partnering with product team engineers across a great variety of use cases you will analyze the performance of databases and systems to provide optimizations and partner with product engineers on query tuning to help us keep scaling safely You will also help run zero-downtime upgrades and maintenance as Motive reaches 99 99 SLAs helped in large part by the excellence of our Database Engineering team s focus on reliability Responsibilities Design and implement high availability database architecture in AWSPartner with developers and SREs to build and automate the provisioning of new infrastructure Continuously monitor and improve database performance via query and index tuning schema updates partitioning etc Collaborate with developers to tune and optimize database queries Work with our Data and ML teams on Kafka and Snowflake integrations and data flows from our main DBs Database Administrator tasks and maintenance ensuring the health of database tables Plan and execute disaster recovery scenarios Build dashboards for database health and alerting Perform Terraform deployments of database instances users groups and permissions Manage database upgrades and migrations with minimal to zero-downtimeTake on-call duty to respond to production incidents Requirements B S or M S in Computer Science or a related field or equivalent work experience Overall 5 years of experience and 3 years working with PostgreSQL 9 6 Experience building and maintaining mission-critical production PostgreSQL databases Solid understanding of PostgreSQL database architecture locking consistency transaction logging etc AWS managed services experience Aurora etc Experience with high-availability backup and recovery solutions and strategies Advanced knowledge of query tuning and optimization techniques Experience provisioning PostgreSQL databases in AWS with tools like Terraform CloudFormation Ansible Experience with monitoring and logging tools like Datadog New Relic Sumo Logic Experience with other databases like DynamoDB Redshift Elasticsearch Snowflake is a plus Creating a diverse and inclusive workplace is one of Motive s core values We are an equal opportunity employer and welcome people of different backgrounds experiences abilities and perspectives Please review our Candidate Privacy NoticeUK Candidate Privacy Notice The applicant must be authorized to receive and access those commodities and technologies controlled under U S Export Administration Regulations It is Motive s policy to require that employees be authorized to receive access to Motive products and technology LI-Remote