Database Engineer

Join Vonage and help us innovate cloud communications for businesses worldwide!

Vonage is a leading cloud communications company providing businesses with unified communication services, contact centers, and communications APIs.

We have technology hubs based in India, Poland and the UK. Our goal is to establish a Center of Excellence in these locations, fostering synergy among engineering, product, and customer support to enhance both customer and employee experiences.

About The Job

As a Vonage Database Engineer, you will be part of our platform engineering team, playing a major role in designing and architecting the database platform and will work in MongoDB Atlas and AWS cloud with different services like MongoDb, RDS Aurora, MSK, OpenSearch, DynamoDb, Elasticache, EC2, S3 and more.

You will be responsible for database tuning and query performance, architecture and implementation of high availability strategies, automation tooling for schema migrations and credential management, and monitoring.

We challenge our Database Engineers to get into the boots of a platform engineer and work with infrastructure as code and configuration as code, automating the creation of databases in the cloud.

What You’re Great At

• Learning new technologies
• Independently tackling challenges: You don’t need anyone to keep you on track. You’re focused, organized and efficient
• Strong communication skills & ability to work in a team
• Flexibility and adaptability to work in a growing, dynamic team
  
  

What You Must Have

• At least 3 years production experience with MongoDb & Postgres (installation, upgrades, tuning , sharding and replication)
• Deep knowledge on query execution concepts
• Experience with cloud services
• 3+ years of experience in data related roles
  
  

What You’re Good At

• AWS RDS Aurora, ELK, Redis, DynamoDB, other no-sql technologies, Kafka, RabbitMQ, Snowflake or other
• Data ETL, data warehousing, performance profiling and analysis
• Database operations (monitoring, data migrations, backup & recovery)
  
  

Qualities About You That Might Make Our Decision Easier

• Passion for everything about data management
• Experience with pub/sub messaging technologies
• Experience with IaC/CaC such as terraform, chef, puppet, ansible or other
• Experience in Agile software development methodology
• Experience with scripting languages such as Python, Ruby or other
  
  

We offer

• Work in a cloud environment
• Small domain teams
• High level of end-to-end ownership
• Possibility to influence technical stack
• Time for prototyping and research
• Unlimited paid vacation
• Key contributor incentives
• Annual bonus (TBO)
  
  

There’s no perfect candidate. You don't need all the preferred qualifications to make a valuable impact on our team. Our employees and customers come from diverse backgrounds, so if you're passionate about what you could achieve at Vonage, we'd love to hear from you.

Who We Are

Vonage is a global cloud communications leader. And your talent will further help brands - such as Airbnb, Viber, WhatsApp, and Snapchat - accelerate their digital transformation through our fully programmable-based unified communications, contact center solutions, and communications APIs. Ready to innovate? Then join us today.

Note: The purpose of this profile is to provide a general summary of essential responsibilities for the position and is not meant as an exhaustive list. Assignments may differ for individuals within the same role based on business conditions, departmental need or geographic location.