Senior Staff Engineer, Database Reliability - VIZIO, Inc.

VIZIO is looking for a Senior Staff Engineer (Database Reliability) for VIZIO’s Software Engineering team. The successful candidate will play an important role in driving a critical overhaul in how we deploy and manage our database platforms, enabling a radical improvement in consistency, efficiency, and operability.

• Lead and be the champion for a rigorous, modern approach for deploying and managing data platform resources
• Build the tooling foundation that will enable repeatable, low overhead creation and operation of databases, deployed and run at scale
• Design and implement an IaC-based approach for managing stateful infrastructure components
• Create pipelines that enable migration of infrastructure and code (DDL) without manual intervention to multiple environments and regions
• Build and rebuild cloud databases in a zero-touch, zero-downtime fashion
• Enable automated testing of deployed resources to validate basic health following infrastructure work
• Design and implement mechanisms for secure, auditable database access for human users, service accounts, and privileged administrators
• Automate routine maintenance tasks
• Serve as a trusted resource for database technology selection and governance
• Partner with application development counterparts to serve their needs while improving how they interact with database resources
• Lead the design efforts for new database clusters
• Be a steward for database health and platform modernization
• Document architecture, processes, policies, and how-to guides
• Architect for cost, and provide ongoing expertise into how to model, predict, monitor, and optimize our cloud spend
• Assist efforts to run efficiently, either tuning databases or engaging support resources contracted to do this
• Articulate project delivery plans, tasks, dependencies, status etc. to project managers and engineering leadership

The ideal candidate is a multidiscliplinary software engineer with a deep expertise in cloud databases and hands on experience with modern tools and techniques for deploying and operating them at scale. You will bring many of the following experiences and skills to the table, and you will also bring a zeal for learning the rest:
• 10+ years of professional experience as a database administrator, deployment automator, or software engineer with expertise in data engineering solutions

• Bachelor’s Degree (BA, BS, or MS in Computer Science) or related field.
• Familiarity with Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tenets and practices
• Experience with declarative definition of infrastructure resources through tools such as terraform.
• Automation of infrastructure deployment workflows using deployment pipelines built out on tools like Jenkins or GitHub Actions
• Schema (DDL) deployment automation using tools such as Flyway or Liquibase
• Unit test frameworks for verifying the integrity of database resources following deployments and upgrades 
• Architecting databases for continuous availability and disaster recovery
• Knowledge of zero trust philosophy, designing for associated principles such as least privilege 
• Experience working with data sets subject to access controls and privacy regulation
• Slow query monitoring and database optimization
• Deep architectural understanding of common relational and NoSQL databases, plus large-scale data analytics platforms and caching technologies
• Understanding of data pipelines, stream data processing, and data delivery architectures
• Load and chaos testing
• Experience in a direct-to-consumer business where maintenance and upgrade operations are handled in a zero-downtime manner

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Headquartered in Irvine, California, VIZIO is a leading HDTV brand in America and the #1 Sound Bar Brand in America. VIZIO's mission is to deliver high performance, smarter products with the latest innovations at a significant savings that we can pass along to our consumers. Our loyal following and industry-wide praise continues to grow as we redefine what it means to be smart.

VIZIO, Inc. is an Equal Opportunity Employer committed to diversity in the workplace. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regards to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, national origin, protected veteran status, or any other basis protected by applicable law, and will not be discriminated against on the basis of disability.

We do not accept unsolicited agency resumes. We will not pay fees to any third-party agency, outside recruiter or firm without a mutually agreed-upon contract and will not be responsible for any agency fees associated with unsolicited resumes. Unsolicited resumes will be considered our property and will be processed accordingly.

For Colorado-based employment: The minimum salary for this position is $156,000.00/year. In addition to base salary, the compensation package also includes eligibility for an annual bonus, as well as equity and a range of medical, dental, vision and other benefits.

For New York-based employment: The minimum salary for this position is $170,000.00/year. The maximum salary for this position $222,000.00/year. In addition to base salary, the compensation package also includes eligibility for an annual bonus, as well as equity and a range of medical, dental, vision and other benefits.

For Washington-based employment: The base salary range for this position is $170,000.00 to $222,000.00. Compensation may vary inside of this range depending on a number of factors, including a candidate’s qualifications, skills, competencies and experience, and location. Base pay is one part of the employee’s total compensation package that is provided to compensate and recognize employees for their work, and this role may be eligible for additional discretionary bonuses/incentives, commissions, profit-sharing, or other stock compensation.

Benefits include medical, vision and dental coverage, group and supplemental life insurance, 401(k) with company match, up to 15 days of paid time off (PTO), paid sick leave, eight (8) paid holidays per year, eight (8) weeks of paid paternity/maternity leave, and tuition reimbursement, relocation assistance, other health benefits through VIZIO’s employee assistance program (EAP).