Join our team and build your career with us
With tens of millions of visitors every week, we strive to be the best in the industry for our users. You’ll be responsible for taking ownership of our existing and new database infrastructure for multiple platforms and facilitating releases into new regions. We wrote our systems from scratch about 4 years ago, so you’ll be working with the latest technology and won’t have to worry about decades old technologies. There’s also freedom to research and implement new technologies into our stack as you and the team see fit.
Our Stack
MySQL, MongoDB, AWS EC2, Cloudwatch, RDS, Redshift, Grafana, Prometheus, Terraform, Python, Shell
What You’ll Be Doing
Take ownership and responsibility for our existing and new database infrastructure
Slow query monitoring and database system capacity proactive adjustment
Automating deployments, config management, and building infrastructure with Terraform
Enhance our existing dashboards as well as develop new dashboards and alert mechanisms
As we deploy into new regions you’ll be facilitating the database side
On call responsibilities on a rotating pattern
What You’ll Bring
4+ years experience tackling and managing advanced MySQL and MongoDB problems
Hands on experience with AWS RDS, Redshift
Delivering quality documentation and operational runbooks
Open mind and willing to take on new challenges in a rapidly growing organization
Sporty is an English speaking working environment, so we are looking for English speakers
What’s In It For You
Sporty is a remote first company in pursuit of sustainability
A competitive salary + individual performance based bonuses every quarter
28 days paid annual leave
Our core working hours are 10am-3pm in your local time zone with flexibility outside of this
Referral bonuses & flash bonuses
Top of the line equipment
Annual company retreats to provide great internal networking opportunities
Interview Process
Remote video screening with our Talent Acquisition Team
Online assessment via Hackerrank
Remote video interview with Team Members (60 Mins)
Final discussion with the hiring manager (60 mins)
If you’re interested, we encourage you to apply! Every application is reviewed by a member of our team (AI is not used in our recruitment process), and we aim to respond within 48 hours.
