ABOUT THE TEAM

Our team is a crucial part of the Foundation organization. We are dedicated to safeguarding, supporting, and advancing the software and systems that power all of the Mural’s public services. With an unwavering focus on availability, latency, performance, and capacity, our vigilant eye ensures uninterrupted service delivery to our users. Together, we strive to maintain the reliability and optimization of our infrastructure, enabling seamless experiences for our customers.

YOUR MISSION

Mural is looking for a  Senior Data Stores Engineer to join our team. You will be responsible for designing, building, and maintaining the database architecture of our software products. Working closely with development teams, product departments, and data engineering to ensure that our databases are scalable, reliable, and efficient, and that they are used with the best practices.

WHAT YOU'LL DO

• Design and implement database architecture for software products, including MongoDB databases.
• Define database schema and data structures based on business requirements
• Ensure that the data stores achieve maximum performance and availability
• Design indexing strategies.
• Design and implement software tools and applications that extend the given capabilities of existing data stores technologies, in order to meet unmet needs.
• Collaborate with development teams, product departments, and data engineering to integrate database components with their client software applications.
• Help product departments use our data stores with the best practices and ensure data governance and compliance.
• Stay up-to-date with emerging database technologies and trends, and propose strategies for staying ahead of our game.
• Be on a rotating on-call schedule

WHAT YOU'LL BRING

• 5+ years of experience in database architecture, design, and implementation, with a focus on MongoDB.
• Experience managing infrastructure in cloud platforms, preferably with Azure, AWS or GCP.
• Experience in designing, implementing and maintaining high scale software applications that rely on blob storage for their workloads.
• Experience in designing and implementing strategies that provide high availability, redundancy and business continuity to mission critical systems.
• Experience in handling, configuration, and administration of NoSQL databases.
• Experience with enterprise compliant database models and operations
• Experience with NoSQL schema management including large scale schema migrations with live data
• Software development experience with proficiency in at least one programming language.
• Experience in managing SIEM solutions like DataDog, NewRelic, Prometheus+Grafana, etc.
• Experience in data stores troubleshooting/performance tuning.

For roles based in New York City, California, Colorado, and Washington, the base salary for this role ranges from $152,700 - $190,900 + equity + benefits. Compensation offered will be determined by factors such as location, level, job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. Certain roles may be eligible for variable compensation.