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  • Lead the Database Performance Engineering organization to drive performance, scalability, and customer experience across database platforms.
  • Establish scalable performance engineering practices, standards, and testing methodologies to improve platform efficiency.
  • Identify and eliminate performance bottlenecks across database services, operating systems, and cloud infrastructure.

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  • Define and maintain SLOs, error budgets, dashboards, alerts, and reliability thresholds.
  • Lead load, stress, soak, spike, failure, and recovery testing in representative environments.

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  • Lead a team of engineers, owning both delivery and development with a focus on continuous improvement and fast iterations.
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  • Lead and manage a team of engineers across frontend, backend and full stack development.
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Canada Unlimited PTO

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US

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US Unlimited PTO

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US Unlimited PTO

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Global

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US Canada

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