Principal Database Platform Engineer

About

We’re looking for a Principal Database Platform Engineer to join Procore’s Database Reliability Engineering team. In this role, you’ll help build Procore’s next-generation construction data platform for others to build upon, including Procore developers, analysts, partners, and customers.

As a Principal Database Platform Engineer, you’ll partner with other engineers and product managers across Product & Technology to develop data platform capabilities that enable the storage and management of data for use in transactional and analytical applications. To be successful in this role, you’re passionate about distributed data storage systems on the cloud with experience in non-relational (NoSQL) or relational (SQL) databases. If you’re an engineer comfortable and excited about building our next-generation data platform and translating problems into pragmatic solutions that open up the boundaries of technical possibilities—we’d love to hear from you!

Location

• Bengaluru, India

Immediate Start

• We're looking for someone to join us immediately.

Responsibilities

• Play a lead role in the design and implementation of our next-generation data platform for the construction industry, primarily focused on building and supporting distributed SQL and NoSQL databases
• Support our engineering team in all phases of the software development lifecycle, including requirements gathering, functional and technical design, development, testing and roll-out, and support
• Help identify and propose solutions for technical gaps in our data platform by running proof of concepts and experiments
• Work alongside our Product, UX, and IT teams, leveraging your experience and expertise in SQL and NoSQL database technologies to influence our product roadmap, developing innovative solutions that add additional capabilities to our tools
• Stay up to date with and educate the organization on the latest data technology trends

Requirements

• 12+ years of experience operating SQL and NoSQL databases reliably and at scale (PostgreSQL, Elasticsearch, Neo4j, DynamoDB, Mongo, Cassandra, etc.)
• 8+ years of experience and proficiency in managing infrastructure as code using Terraform
• 8+ years of experience operating within AWS with AWS certification preferred
• 3+ years of experience leading database projects and mentoring other engineers
• Experience and proficiency in a scripting language
• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science or a related field is preferred, or comparable work