Hybrid Staff Software Engineer, DBE

at Clari

• Job title: Staff Software Engineer, DBE
• Job type: Full Time
• Experience level: Lead
• Salary: Not specified
• Degree requirement: Bachelor's Degree
• Tech skills: Ansible, AWS, Cassandra, Cloud, Distributed Systems, Google Cloud Platform, Java, Microservices, MongoDB, MySQL, NoSQL, Postgres, Python, RDBMS, Shell Scripting, SQL, Terraform
• Location requirements: Hybrid, Bengaluru, India

About the role

• Staff Software Engineer at Clari + Salesloft developing cloud automation and database reliability solutions. Pivotal role in driving the company's predictive revenue system with massive data ingestion capabilities.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and scale our RDBMS (Postgres, MySQL, Amazon Aurora) and NoSQL systems (Cassandra, MongoDB) to meet massive ingestion and analytical demands.
• Lead large, cross-functional projects that identify and overcome friction points in data persistence, migration, and scaling.
• Architect scale-out strategies, including the evaluation and implementation of sharding technologies to distribute workloads effectively across clusters.
• Build automation and tooling (Infrastructure as Code) to improve engineering efficiency, reduce toil, and empower product teams to operate in a reliable and secure manner.
• Collaborate synchronously and asynchronously with Architects, Product Development, and Data Science teams to gather requirements and design scalable, distributed systems.
• Maintain, protect, and grow our data resources by owning the "backbone" of our production environment, including high-availability (HA) solutions, backups, and disaster recovery.

Requirements

• 8+ years of experience building and managing large-scale, business-critical, high-throughput stateful applications in the cloud (AWS/GCP).
• Expertise in RDBMS and NoSQL: Deep knowledge in optimizing and tuning PostgreSQL, MySQL Amazon Aurora, MongoDB, and Cassandra.
• Expert-level experience with Infrastructure as Code and Configuration Management (e.g., Terraform, Ansible).
• Ability to code in Python or Java, with a solid grasp of shell scripting.
• Demonstrated experience with high-availability databases and failover clustering (experience with Patroni is a plus).
• Experience with database sharding technologies and extensions (e.g., Citus for PostgreSQL) is highly preferred but not required.
• Expert-level SQL skills and the ability to aid product teams in complex performance tuning and problem resolution.
• Strong understanding of data processing, analytics, and how databases fit into a microservices architecture.
• Excellent written and verbal skills, with a love for collaborating across multiple timezones in a remote-first environment.

Benefits

• At Clari + Salesloft, we are committed to creating an inclusive and supportive workplace where everyone belongs and can thrive.
• We focus on culture add, not culture fit, and believe our teams are made stronger by the unique perspectives, experiences, and identities each person brings.
• We are proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer and provide employment opportunities to all employees and applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability, veteran status, pregnancy, or any other characteristic protected by law.