StaffDatabaseAdministrator

Calix provides the cloud, software platforms, systems and services required for communications service providers to simplify their businesses, excite their subscribers and grow their value. Job Description **Responsibilities:** * Design/rearchitect our infrastructure platform components to be highly available, scalable, reliable, and secure, with a strong focus on database-backed services. * **Own and manage database infrastructure including BigQuery, Redis, AlloyDB, and Cassandra, ensuring high performance, availability, and cost-efficiency.** * **BigQuery Management:** Design, implement, and optimize datasets, tables, and queries for large-scale analytics. * Monitor and troubleshoot **database performance** and query optimization, including cost management and efficient data storage techniques. * Manage and monitor data ingestion pipelines using tools like Dataflow or Kafka. * Ensure **data security, access control, and compliance** for all managed database platforms, including IAM policies and encryption. * Manage schema changes and data migrations using automation tools such as Liquibase or similar. * Ensure observability is an integral part of the infrastructure platforms, providing adequate visibility into health, utilization, and cost—especially across database workloads. * Implement IaC using tools like Terraform/Terragrunt. * Build tools that predict saturations/failures and take preventive actions through automation. * Collaborate extensively with cross-functional teams to understand data access patterns and infrastructure requirements; educate them through documentation/trainings and improve the adoption of the platforms/tools. **Qualifications:** * 10+ years of experience in building large-scale distributed systems in an always-available production environment. * 5+ years of experience building Infrastructure Platforms and CI/CD pipelines in a major public cloud provider – GCP preferred; hands-on expertise in commonly used Cloud infrastructure/platforms