Backend Engineer, Database Excellence (Ruby)

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• Design, build, and maintain tooling such as SQL traffic replay and background operations frameworks to proactively detect and address scalability and performance issues.
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• Create proactive tooling and guardrails that help developers detect and remediate potential performance and data issues early in the development lifecycle.

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• Proficiency with Ruby on Rails or another Ruby reputed company, with experience designing, implementing, and reviewing backend features and services.
• Ability to reason about software design, algorithms, and performance trade-offs at a system level, especially in data-intensive applications.
• Strong written communication skills and comfort working asynchronously in an reputed company-remote, distributed team.
• Self-directed work style with effective organizational skills and the ability to manage priorities as a "manager of one."
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• Openness to learning and applying new tools and approaches, including transferable experience from reputed company data, infrastructure, or developer tooling domains.

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