Memory Database Platform Engineer

Overview

Build, operate, and modernize enterprise in-memory database services, supporting on-premises Redis deployments and multiple cloud-managed in-memory database offerings.

What you'll do

• Build, deploy, administer, and support production and non-production Redis environments across on-premises infrastructure and cloud-managed in-memory database services.
• Perform installation, configuration, patching, version upgrades, migrations, lifecycle management, and routine platform maintenance.
• Support Redis standalone, replication, and clustered architectures as applicable to the platform and workload.
• Apply engineering standards, reference configurations, operational controls, and documented best practices.
• Partner with application teams on connectivity, caching patterns, key design, data structures, performance, resilience, and operational readiness.
• Support managed in-memory database offerings such as Amazon ElastiCache for Redis/Valkey, Amazon MemoryDB, Azure Managed Redis, and Google Cloud Memorystore, based on enterprise platform direction.
• Assist with provisioning, configuration, scaling, maintenance, monitoring, networking, access management, and migration activities across cloud environments.
• Help maintain consistent security, reliability, observability, and operational practices across on-premises and cloud implementations.
• Configure and support highly available Redis solutions using replication, clustering, multi-zone, or cloud-native resiliency capabilities.
• Configure and operate persistence, snapshot, backup, retention, restore, and recovery-validation processes where supported and required by the service.
• Monitor database availability, memory utilization, latency, throughput, replication health, capacity, and platform performance.
• Analyze and tune Redis configurations, memory policies, data structures, client behavior, connection patterns, hot keys, and workload characteristics.
• Troubleshoot production incidents, contribute to root-cause analysis, and implement corrective and preventive actions.
• Participate in capacity planning, observability, operational health, and reliability improvements.
• Implement and maintain authentication, authorization, least-privilege access, network controls, auditing, and credential-management integrations.
• Support private connectivity and identity/access controls for cloud-managed services.
• Assist with vulnerability remediation, compliance reviews, security assessments, and evidence requests.
• Develop and maintain automation for provisioning, configuration, deployment, patching, validation, monitoring, and routine operations.
• Use source control, APIs, CI/CD practices, configuration management, and Infrastructure as Code to improve consistency and repeatability.
• Contribute to safe self-service capabilities and reduction of manual operational work.
• Provide operational support for business-critical production and non-production in-memory database environments.
• Participate in on-call rotations, incident response, change management, and problem management.
• Create and maintain runbooks, troubleshooting guides, standards, and operational documentation.
• Work independently on standard engineering tasks and partner with senior engineers on complex designs, migrations, and incidents.

What you'll need

• 4+ years of database administration, database engineering, platform engineering, or related infrastructure experience.
• 2+ years of hands-on Redis administration or engineering experience in production or enterprise environments.
• Working knowledge of Redis architecture, persistence, replication, clustering, memory management, security, maintenance, and performance tuning.
• Hands-on experience with high availability, backup/recovery or persistence strategies, monitoring, capacity planning, and production support.
• Experience supporting at least one cloud-managed in-memory database service or comparable cloud database platform.
• Solid Linux administration and troubleshooting skills.
• Ability to troubleshoot database, operating system, storage, network, client-connectivity, and application-integration issues.
• Experience executing upgrades, patching, migrations, platform changes, and controlled production releases.
• Clear written and verbal communication skills and the ability to collaborate effectively across engineering teams.

Nice to have

• RHEL or a comparable enterprise Linux distribution.
• Experience with more than one cloud in-memory offering, especially Amazon ElastiCache for Redis/Valkey, Amazon MemoryDB, Azure Managed Redis, or Google Cloud Memorystore.
• Experience with Redis Enterprise or Redis Software for on-premises platform management.
• Experience with Ansible automation for installation, configuration, patching, validation, or recurring operational tasks.
• Experience with relational databases such as PostgreSQL, Oracle, Microsoft SQL Server, or MySQL.
• Experience with Infrastructure as Code and delivery tooling such as Terraform, GitHub, GitLab, or CI/CD pipelines.
• Experience with observability platforms such as Datadog, Prometheus, Grafana, Splunk, or native cloud monitoring services.
• Exposure to Redis-compatible technologies such as Valkey.

Details

• Location: US - Remote.
• Participation in on-call rotations is expected.
• Compensation: $80,000.00 - $136,625.00 annually, based on experience and qualifications.
• Candidates offered this position will be required to submit to a background investigation.
• Allstate generally does not sponsor individuals for employment-based visas for this position.