Database Administrator

Database Administrator

Founded in 1998 and headquartered in Farmington Hills, MI, Kyyba has a global presence delivering high-quality resources and top-notch recruiting services, enabling businesses to effectively respond to organizational changes and technological advances. At Kyyba, the overall well-being of our employees and their families is important to us. We are proud of our work culture which embodies our core values; incorporating value, passion, excellence, empowerment, and happiness, creates a vibrant and productive atmosphere. We empower our employees with the resources, incentives, and flexibility that they need to support a healthy, balanced, and fulfilling career by providing many valuable benefits and a balanced compensation structure combined with career development.

Job Description Overview

Credit Platform Engineering builds shared services, APIs, and developer tooling that help engineering teams deliver value safely and quickly. This role leans toward software development (high-quality APIs, automation, and tools), with working knowledge of cloud, DevOps, and SRE practices. ## What you'll do - Design and build internal and customer-facing APIs and services that are secure, reliable, and well-documented. - Create developer tools and platform services that improve developer experience (DX): templates, CLIs, libraries, service scaffolding, automation. - Apply engineering best practices: test-driven development, code review, CI, and safe deployment patterns. - Engineer for operability: structured logging, metrics/tracing, health endpoints, and actionable alerts. - Collaborate with platform and product teams to standardize patterns (authn/authz, secrets, configuration, resilience, versioning). - Participate in incident response and reliability improvements; help teams reduce defects and operational risk.

What We're Looking For

### Required - Strong software engineering experience delivering production services/APIs (design, implementation, testing, and operations). - Proficiency in at least one backend language (e.g., Java, Go, C#, Python, TypeScript) and modern API practices. - Experience with API design and lifecycle management (versioning, backward compatibility, pagination, error modeling). - Strong testing discipline (unit/component/integration tests) and comfort refactoring safely. - Working knowledge of cloud-native delivery: containers, CI/CD, and operating services in a cloud environment. - Ability to debug across layers (application, runtime, platform) using logs/metrics/traces. ### Preferred - Experience building and maintaining platform APIs (internal "product" mindset: usability, docs, support, adoption). - Experience with event-driven and asynchronous patterns (queues, pub/sub), reliability, and idempotency. - Security experience: OAuth/OIDC concepts, least privilege, threat modeling, input validation. - Experience improving reliability using SLOs and reducing toil through automation. - Experience with Kubernetes and infrastructure as code in partnership with platform/SRE teams.

How We Work

- Build small, ship often: incremental changes with clear acceptance criteria and fast feedback. - Quality is non-negotiable: tests, clear design, observability, and secure defaults. - Operate what we build: ownership includes production support, documentation, and continuous improvement.

What Success Looks Like

- Platform APIs and tools are adopted because they are reliable, well-documented, and easy to integrate. - Developers spend less time on undifferentiated work (setup, pipeline wiring, troubleshooting) and more time delivering features. - Incidents decrease due to better operability, safer releases, and consistent engineering standards.

Skills Required

• Python: A candidate is expected to use Python to build and ship production-grade services or internal tools - for example, writing a CLI tool that scaffolds new microservices with standard configuration, logging, and health endpoints baked in, including unit and integration tests.
• Go: A candidate is expected to write idiomatic Go to build high-performance, reliable backend APIs or platform services - for example, implementing a REST API with structured logging, metrics endpoints, and proper error modeling that is deployed via CI/CD to a cloud environment.
• REST APIs: A candidate is expected to design and deliver well-structured REST APIs following lifecycle management best practices - for example, designing a versioned internal API with consistent error modeling, pagination, backward-compatible changes, and clear documentation so consuming teams can integrate with minimal friction.
• Cloud Infrastructure: A candidate is expected to have working knowledge of running services in a cloud environment - for example, deploying a containerized service using CI/CD pipelines, configuring health checks and structured logging, and understanding how the runtime environment (networking, secrets, config) affects their application.
• Docker: A candidate is expected to containerize services using Docker as part of a standard delivery workflow - for example, writing a production-ready Dockerfile for a backend API, integrating it into a CI pipeline, and ensuring the container behaves consistently across dev and production environments.

Skills Preferred

• GCP: A candidate is expected to have hands-on experience deploying and operating services on Google Cloud Platform - for example, using GCP-native services (e.g., Cloud Run, Pub/Sub, Secret Manager) to build a reliable, observable platform service with appropriate IAM and least-privilege access controls.
• Kubernetes: A candidate is expected to deploy and manage workloads in Kubernetes in partnership with platform and SRE teams - for example, authoring Kubernetes manifests or Helm charts for a service, configuring liveness/readiness probes, and troubleshooting pod-level issues using logs and metrics.
• Agile Software Development: A candidate is expected to work in short, iterative cycles with clear acceptance criteria and fast feedback - for example, breaking a platform API feature into small incremental pull requests, participating in code review, and shipping working software frequently rather than in large batches.
• Endpoint Security: A candidate is expected to apply security best practices at the API and service level - for example, implementing OAuth/OIDC-based authentication on an API, enforcing least-privilege access, validating and sanitizing all inputs, and participating in threat modeling for a new service to identify and mitigate risks before release.

Experience Required

Engineer 3 Exp: Prac. In 2 coding lang. or adv. Prac. in 1 lang. 6+ years in IT; 4+ years in development

Education Required

Bachelor's Degree

Additional Information

POSITION IS HYBRID / 4 Full days in office, 1 remote

Location: Raleigh

Kyyba is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Kyyba does not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, age, non-disqualifying physical or mental disability, national origin, veteran status or any other basis covered by appropriate law. Minorities / Females / Protected Veterans / Individuals with Disabilities are encouraged to apply. All employment is decided on the basis of qualifications, merit, and business need.

It is the policy of Kyyba to provide reasonable accommodation when requested by a qualified applicant or employee with a disability, unless such accommodation would cause an undue hardship. The policy regarding requests for reasonable accommodation applies to all aspects of employment, including the application process. If reasonable accommodation is needed, please contact Kyyba at View phone number on click.appcast.io

Rewards

Medical, dental, vision 401k Term life Voluntary life and disability insurance Optional Pre-paid legal plan Optional Identity theft plan Optional Medical and dependent FSA Work-visa sponsorship Opportunity for advancement Long-term assignment with opportunity for hire by client

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