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Database Reliability Engineer (Analytics)

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Remote
Hiring Remotely in Atlanta, GA
Senior level
Remote
Hiring Remotely in Atlanta, GA
Senior level
Database Reliability Engineers at PrizePicks ensure the reliability and performance of data platforms, collaborating on architecture, monitoring, automation, and security adjustments.
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At PrizePicks, we are the fastest-growing sports company in North America, as recognized by Inc. 5000. As the leading platform for Daily Fantasy Sports, we cover a diverse range of sports leagues, including the NFL, NBA, and Esports titles like League of Legends and Counter-Strike. Our team of over 450 employees thrives in an inclusive culture that values individuals from diverse backgrounds, regardless of their level of sports fandom. Ready to reimagine the DFS industry together? 

Our Database Reliability Engineers work within the Infrastructure Operations team to ensure the reliability, scalability, and performance of our data platform as we continue to scale and expand our operations.  You will collaborate with other DevOps and Site Reliability Engineers to architect, design, deploy, migrate, monitor, scale, and support our database infrastructure.  We are looking for teammates who have a deep understanding of databases as well as SRE concepts like SLIs, SLOs, error budgets, four golden signals monitoring, and incident response.

What you’ll do:
  • Help design and implement the next generation of PrizePicks’ data infrastructure using PostgreSQL-compatible cloud databases
  • Work with peers to roll out changes to our production environment and help mitigate database-related production incidents
  • Make monitoring and alerting alert on symptoms and SLOs, and not on outages
  • Provide database expertise to engineering teams (for example through reviews of database migrations, queries and performance optimizations)
  • Work on automation of database infrastructure and help engineering succeed by providing self-service tools
  • Work closely with security to implement security controls to ensure enforcement of policies and procedures and advise on best practices
  • Deeply analyze platform performance and find areas to improve speed and scale
  • Participate in a 24/7 on-call rotation
What you have:
  • 5+ years of relevant work experience
  • Extensive experience in database management and infrastructure design with PostgreSQL
  • Expert knowledge and experience in delivering cloud database technologies at scale
  • Strong knowledge of PostgreSQL internals and best practices design, scaling, and reliability patterns
  • Unwavering commitment to automating all-the-things
  • Experience working in a startup environment at a fast pace with a distributed team
  • Extensive datacenter experience a big plus
  • Proven track record of building large, geographically distributed scalable infrastructure in a programmatic way
  • Passion for technology and collaboration
  • Extensive Linux experience
  • Python, Ruby, or Go expertise 
  • Experience with Terraform
  • Experience in working with fundamental cloud technologies like virtualization and TCP/IP networking and abstractions (not just AWS, GCP or Azure)
Where you’ll live:
  • While we prefer candidates based in Atlanta, we are open to qualified applicants from anywhere in the U.S. and are willing to consider remote candidates.
Working at PrizePicks:

This application period will remain open for 30 days. We’re committed to finding the best candidate, so this date may be adjusted, and any changes will be reflected in this posting.

The typical salary range for this position is $135,000 to $180,000. At PrizePicks, we consider your role, level, and where you'll be working when determining our salary ranges. The compensation info you see on our job postings gives you an idea of the starting pay range for the position. Your actual pay within that range will depend on your specific work location, as well as your skills, experience, and education. Your recruiter will be happy to chat more about the specific pay range for your location and how we arrived at it during the hiring process.

This application period will remain open for 30 days. We’re committed to finding the best candidate, so this date may be adjusted, and any changes will be reflected in this posting.

Date Posted: 2/19/2025

First Extension: 3/19/2025

Second Extension: 4/19/2025


Benefits you’ll receive:

In addition to your great compensation package, full-time employees will be eligible for the following perks: 

  • Company-subsidized medical, dental, & vision plans 
  • 401(k) plan with company match
  • Annual bonus
  • Flexible PTO to encourage a healthy work/life balance (2 weeks STRONGLY encouraged!)
  • Generous paid leave programs, including 16-week paid parental leave and disability benefits
  • Workplace flexibility and modern work schedules focused on getting the job done, not hours clocked
  • Company-wide in-person events and team outings
  • Lifestyle enhancement program
  • Company equipment provided (Windows & Mac options)
  • Annual performance reviews with opportunities for growth and career development

You must be authorized to work for any employer in the U.S.  We are unable to sponsor or take over sponsorship of an employment Visa at this time. 

PrizePicks is an Equal Opportunity Employer.  All applicants will be considered for employment without attention to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, veteran or disability status.

Top Skills

Cloud Technologies
Go
Postgres
Python
Ruby
Terraform

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