Cassandra Database Engineer

Umbel is a Customer Data Platform that empowers marketers to unify and access their own customer data.

We are a team of boundary-pushing problem-solvers who love to invent and improve. The Cassandra Database Engineer will help manage our ever-growing data stores. You will ensure that our Cassandra clusters are fully monitored and always available, and you will work closely with the Development and Operations teams to understand load requirements in order to adequately scale the clusters and stay ahead of demand. In additional to normal database operations, you will be responsible for maintaining a backup/recovery process, and you will periodically test that process to ensure smooth transitions in the case of a database failure. Finally, the Cassandra Database Engineer should keep abreast of software updates and methodically review updates prior to executing non-intrusive rolling upgrades in production.

- Constantly monitor database performance and proactively take steps to make improvements - Work closely with Development and Operations to ensure that database load is managed - Keep production database servers operational with adequate failover, backup, and recovery plans

- Deep knowledge working with Apache Cassandra (Development and/or Administration). Experience in other NoSQL database technologies is a plus. - A good understanding of RDBMS technologies like MySQL or PostgreSQL - The ability to install, troubleshoot, and maintain various databases - A bachelor’s degree in computer science or a related field (preferred, not required)