Lead Data Platform Engineer (Content Hub)
Description
About Us:
Our mission is to elevate leading brands through unforgettable digital connections with their customers. Sitecore delivers a composable digital experience platform that empowers the world’s smartest and largest brands to build lifelong relationships with their customers. A highly decorated industry leader, Sitecore is the leading company bringing together content, commerce, and data into one connected platform that delivers millions of digital experiences every day. Thousands of blue-chip companies including American Express, Porsche, Starbucks, L’Oréal, and Volvo Cars rely on Sitecore to provide more engaging, personalized experiences for their customers. Learn more at Sitecore.com.
About the Role:
The mission of Sitecore’s Content solutions is to enable the world’s leading brands to build immersive content-driven digital experiences that engage their global audiences. We want to build easy-to-use content platforms that are accessible to as many developers as possible and importantly, are delightful for developers to use. Developers play a critical role in enabling brands to deliver engaging experiences and the developer experience plays a crucial role in the success of our platforms and developer community.This is a project leveraging modern technologies such as .NET Core, Microservices, Kubernetes, Redis and ElasticSearch. This SaaS service unifies content creation, management and publishing with a single, integrated solution.
We are looking for a Senior / Lead Data Platform Engineer with expertise in data infrastructure to support the architecture, development and optimization of our data services. The ideal candidate is experienced with Redis, Elasticsearch or other database technologies and is passionate about data reliability, performance and scalability.
What You’ll Do:
- Design and Optimization: Support the engineering team with the architecture, implementation and optimization of the underlying data storage solutions to ensure performance, reliability and scalability.
- Data Infrastructure Management: Maintain, monitor and manage core data systems, ensuring high availability, disaster recovery and data consistency across the different services.
- Monitoring and Troubleshooting: Set up automated monitoring and alerting for database health, perform root cause analysis of incidents and quickly resolve issues impacting data integrity or performance.
- Documentation and Process Improvement: Maintain comprehensive documentation on data infrastructure and continuously explore ways to enhance our data architecture to align with the company’s growth.
What You Need to Succeed:
- Experience with DB Technologies: Experience with Redis or Elasticsearch. Knowledge of other databases (e.g., PostgreSQL, MySQL, CosmosDB) is a plus.
- Database Design and Administration: Proficiency in designing data services, tuning database performance, and administering distributed data systems.
- Familiarity with Data Caching and Distributed Systems: Solid understanding of caching mechanisms, distributed data storage, and associated challenges (e.g., data consistency, replication, sharding).
- Experience with Monitoring Tools: Familiarity with monitoring and logging tools (e.g., Prometheus, Grafana, Kibana) and APM (Application Performance Management) solutions.
- Problem-solving and Troubleshooting: Strong analytical skills and a systematic approach to problem-solving, especially in high-availability, mission-critical environments.
- Knowledge of Cloud Platforms: Experience with cloud providers (preferably Azure) and managed database services is an advantage.
- Communication Skills: Strong written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to document processes and collaborate effectively with multiple teams.
Why you should click ‘Apply’:
Sitecore is on a path of significant growth, driven by our passion for new technologies. We are prepared to capitalize on a $30 billion market opportunity, a testament to the promising stage of this field. Joining Sitecore now offers a unique chance to shape an industry that’s just beginning to unfold its potential.