Allegro is hiring a

Database Engineer 1 (NoSQL)

Poznań, Poland
Full-Time

 

As part of the Technical Platform Teams we provide to internal customers, NoSQL databases. We have built our own dbaas based on Kubernetes. We provide support to development teams in the context of databases, application modelling, performance troubleshooting, backups & restore solutions. 

Hybrid working model as agreed by the leader and the team.

With us you will be dealing with MongoDB clusters at serious scale:

  • hundreds of databases on production 

  • thousands of date nodes 

  • hundreds of terabytes of data 

  • ~million ops aggregate traffic to databases

  • we are doing databases on Kubernetes

  • two datacenters and the cloud

We are looking for people who:

  • are eager and willing to learn MongoDB databases administration

  • are focused on solving problems at the interface between applications and databases 

  • have a knack for tackling performance issues

  • use Linux with ease

  • are familiar with English at a level of min. B2 

Nice if you have:

  • knowledge of data modeling design topics oriented towards optimal data storage and high performance

  • practical expertise in finding causes of performance problems, performing load tests, tuning queries and selecting optimal indexes;

  • knowledge in Kubernetes and public clouds environment;

  • understanding of issues with performing backups and disaster recovery;

  • Experience in MongoDB

What we offer:

  • A hybrid work model that you will agree on with your leader and the team. We have well-located offices (with fully equipped kitchens and bicycle parking facilities) and excellent working tools (height-adjustable desks, interactive conference rooms)

  • Annual bonus up to 10% of the annual salary gross (depending on your annual assessment and the company's results)

  • A wide selection of fringe benefits in a cafeteria plan – you choose what you like (e.g. medical, sports or lunch packages, insurance, purchase vouchers)

  • English classes that we pay for related to the specific nature of your job

  • 16" or 14" MacBook Pro with M1 processor and, 32GB RAM or a corresponding Dell with Windows (if you don’t like Macs) 

  • Working in a team you can always count on — we have on board top-class specialists and experts in their areas of expertise

  • A high degree of autonomy in terms of organizing your team’s work; we encourage you to develop continuously and try out new things

  • Hackathons, team tourism, training budget and an internal educational platform, MindUp (including training courses on work organization, means of communications, motivation to work and various technologies and subject-matter issues)

  • If you want to learn more, check it out

Why is it worth working with us?

  • The IT team is made up of over 1700 members who have shared their knowledge at multiple conferences, such as Devoxx, Geecon, Confitura and co-create a blog: allegro.tech

  • Microservices – a few thousand microservices and 1.8m+ rps on our business data bus

  • Big Data – several petabytes of data and Machine Learning used in production

  • We practice Code Review, Continuous Integration, Scrum/Kanban, Domain Driven Design, Test Driven Development, Pair Programming, depending on the team

  • Our internal ecosystem is based on self-service and widely used tools, such as Kubernetes, Docker, Consul, GitHub or GitHub Actions. This will allow you, from day one, to develop software using any language, architecture and scale, restricted only by your creativity and imagination. 

  • To match the scale, we also focus on building entire Platforms of tools and technologies that accelerate and facilitate day-to-day development, and we ensure the best Developer Experience to our teams

  • Technological autonomy: you get to choose which technology solves the problem at hand (no need for management’s consent). You are responsible for what you create

  • Our deployment environment combines private Data Centers (tens of thousands of servers) and Public Clouds (Google Cloud and Microsoft Azure)

  • Over 100 original open source projects and a few thousand stars on github

  • We organize Allegro Tech Live event, a 100% remote version of our offline Allegro Tech Talks meetups, and we make guest appearances at the invitation of such communities as Warsaw AI, JUG (Poznań, Łódź, Lublin, Wrocław), WG .Net, Dare IT, Women in Tech Summit

  • We focus on development as well. We organize hackathons and internal conferences (e.g. the annual Allegro Tech Meeting). If you want to keep growing and share your knowledge, we will always support you
     

This may also be of interest to you:

Allegro Tech Podcast → https://podcast.allegro.tech/

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