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PENN Entertainment, Inc.

Senior Database Engineer

RemoteCanada only
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Role
Backend
Experience
Senior
CAD 150k–CAD 190k/yr
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Senior Database Engineer with 5+ years of experience in Postgres and cloud environments (AWS/GCP). Must have strong Kubernetes production experience, Python/Go programming skills, and experience with IaC (Terraform). Focus on database architecture, performance, reliability, and production support within a Cloud Native (K8) platform.

Core skills

PostgreSQLKubernetesTerraform

Required skills

KafkaETLsCDCPythonGoGitOps

Optional skills

Zalando K8s operatorsCNPG K8s operators

What you'll do

  • Evaluate current database architectures and suggest improvements to maintain performance and availability
  • Work within agile scrum & kanban to foster Engineering and support efforts
  • Support the engineering organization by responding to database outages, helping triage, and remediating any database-related issues
  • Support the engineering organization by evaluating database schemas, partitions, views and queries, implementing changes to increase database performance
  • Manage and maintain replication between databases, ensuring resilience and the ability to recover from faults (observability platform in place already)
  • Product choice decisions, design methods, and modelling for AWS and GCP database direction
  • DB architecture to support our business continuity plan, backups, compute, network and storage development, using Terraform to automate deployment/creation leveraging GitOps
  • Build and develop a common database design architecture that can be easily replicated for new database installations
  • Other duties as required

What they require

  • 5+ years of hands on Database Engineering (Postgres preferred)
  • 5+ years working within an AWS or GCP cloud environment
  • 3+ years of high-level programming experience in Python or Go
  • Strong database monitoring experience
  • Strong database architecture experience
  • Strong Kubernetes production experience
  • Experience working with applications requiring compliance audits
  • Experience with production support issues, and how to remediate in a timely manner
  • Experience building infrastructure as code via IaC (preferably terraform)

Benefits

  • Competitive compensation package.
  • Comprehensive Benefits package.
  • Fun, relaxed work environment.
  • Education and conference reimbursements.

PENN Entertainment, Inc. is North America’s leading provider of integrated entertainment, sports content, and casino gaming experiences. From casinos and racetracks to online gaming, sports betting and entertainment content, it delivers online gaming and sports media products through platforms including Hollywood Casino, theScore Bet Sportsbook, and theScore media app.

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CAD 150k–CAD 190k/yr