Principal DevOps Engineer Datastores

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Principal DevOps Engineer - Datastores

About you

You’re an analytical problem-solver ready to put your skills toward purposeful work that has a global impact. You want to lead the way in innovation, exploring the latest technologies and finding new solutions. You thrive in a collaborative environment and are eager to work with and learn alongside the best in Product, Design, and Engineering.

About this role:

As part of Udemy's Platform team, the Datastore Infrastructure (DSI) team is responsible for overseeing all aspects of Databases (MySQL, Aurora, DynamoDB), Message Queues (RabbitMQ), Streaming (Kafka), and Caching (Redis, Memcache) in our infrastructure. This includes ensuring uptime, security and compliance, observability, performance, improving developers' productivity and developing future growth strategies. The team is split between EU and US regions. You will play a vital role in overseeing day-to-day activities and engineering strategies of DSI, ensuring that millions of students worldwide achieve greater learning and career outcomes on Udemy. We value tea