Job Description Amazing Career Moments Happen Here Transforming the Insurance Industry is ambitious, we know. That's why at Applied, we're building a team that shows up every day ready to learn, willing to try new things, and driven to deliver innovative software and services that make us indispensable to our customers, all within a culture built on values that make us indispensable to each other too. With 40+ years of experience in Insurtech, we're not just redefining what's achievable, we're creating a place where amazing career moments are made possible. Position Overview As a Staff DevOps Engineer, you'll work across teams to tackle complex problems, drive platform improvements, and shape the way we deliver software at scale. Your impact goes well beyond your own output: you'll mentor engineers, design systems that raise the bar on quality and security and influence how the broader engineering organization thinks about DevOps. If you thrive on solving hard problems, communicating across technical and non-technical stakeholders, and moving the needle on things that matter to customers, this is where you belong. What You'll Do - Design, develop, and deliver solutions that improve scalability, quality, security, and velocity across multiple engineering teams. - Address escalated and complex debugging issues, identifying root causes from a broad perspective to reduce the risk of future incidents. - Introduce automation solutions and provide guidance to help multiple teams adopt new tools and processes. - Partner with DevOps leadership to prioritize new initiatives, including upgrades and investments in new tooling over time. - Design monitoring strategies and create documentation to help DevOps and other engineering teams troubleshoot independently. - Extend team knowledge by sharing best practices, clarifying standards, and explaining how to adapt approaches across different environments. - Mentor engineers, including senior-level engineers, across multiple teams to support growth and delivery quality. - Explore new tools and propose initiatives based on current and emerging platform needs. - Explain complex technical concepts clearly to a range of technical and non-technical stakeholders. We're Excited to Learn More About You Your experience may include: - 10+ years of experience in DevOps Engineering or a closely related area. - Expert knowledge of software engineering principles and practices, with extensive experience developing and enhancing technical designs, testing practices, and security at scale. - Experience designing automation solutions and developing guides for team-wide adoption. - Expert knowledge of Infrastructure as Code (IaC) and relevant tools or frameworks for interacting with public cloud platforms. - Track record of success leading technical initiatives to identify and address root causes of issues. - Ability to design and present new solutions with well-reasoned arguments and genuine openness to alternative approaches. - Experience engaging cross-functional stakeholders to solve complex, multi-team problems. - Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a related field. You may have other skills or credentials, including: - Experience mentoring senior engineers and driving engineering standards across teams. - Familiarity with multi-cloud environments and cloud-native architecture patterns. - Experience contributing to multi-year platform planning or roadmap discussions. We know that talent comes from all backgrounds and experience levels. We encourage military members and their spouses as well as candidates without a degree or a background in tech to apply! When You Join Team Applied, You Can Expect: A culture that values who you are and recognizes that you aren't just an employee; you are a teammate, and you matter. We thrive on the benefits of our different experiences and celebrate the uniqueness our teammates bring to work with them every day. We flex our time together , collaborating remotely and in-person to empower our teams to work in the ways that work best for them. A comprehensive benefits and compensation package that centers our teammates and helps them to bring their best to work every day: - Medical, Dental, and Vision Coverage - Holiday and Vacation Time - Health & Wellness Days - A Bonus Day for Your Birthday Learn more about the people behind our products at https://www1.appliedsystems.com/en-us/about-us/jobs/ Our targeted starting base salary in the United States for this position ranges from [$110,000 - $175,000 USD]. To determine a new team member's starting pay, we consider a variety of factors, including someone's depth, breadth, and variety of experience, skills, and responsibilities. Depending on the role, team members may also be eligible to participate in additional compensation plans such as bonus and commission. Your Security Matters: Our candidates' personal information and online safety are top of mind for us. At Applied, we proactively protect your personal information and only communicate with candidates via a secure @appliedsystems.com email or through our official careers portal. Recruiters will never request payments, ask for financial account information or sensitive information like social security numbers. AI Utilization We leverage AI tools to streamline parts of our recruitment workflow (such as resume parsing and interview scheduling). However, candidate screening, interviews, and final decisions are conducted by real humans. EEO Statement Applied Systems is proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity Employer. Diversity and Inclusion is a business imperative and is a part of building our brand and reputation. At Applied, we don't discriminate, and we are committed to recruit, develop, retain, and promote regardless of race, religion, color, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability, age, veteran status, and other protected status as required by applicable law. #LI-Hybrid OR #LI-Remote #LI-US

• Design, build, and maintain shared database platform components used by Sezzle applications, such as database connection packages, database client libraries, migration tooling, safety checks, query standards, and developer-facing abstractions. • Establish reliable, scalable patterns for how Sezzle services connect to and interact with relational databases across production, staging, and development environments. • Partner with backend engineering teams to improve database usage in application code, including connection lifecycle, transaction handling, retries, timeouts, pooling, query patterns, and migration workflows. • Build automation and internal tooling that makes database operations safer, more repeatable, and less dependent on manual intervention. • Define and enforce engineering standards for database access, schema design, migrations, indexing, query performance, connection management, and operational readiness. • Architect and improve database infrastructure across AWS RDS/Aurora MySQL, PostgreSQL, RDS Proxy, read replicas, backups, failover, parameter groups, monitoring, and capacity planning. • Lead database reliability initiatives that reduce operational risk, improve performance, and help Sezzle scale safely. • Review application designs and database changes early in the development lifecycle to ensure reliability, scalability, maintainability, and security are built in from the start. • Build guardrails for database migrations, including automated checks, rollback expectations, schema review workflows, migration observability, and production safety controls. • Improve developer self-service for database provisioning, access, schema management, local development, testing, and observability. • Investigate production database issues by combining application telemetry, database metrics, logs, query plans, traces, and cloud infrastructure data. • Identify and fix systemic database problems, not just symptoms — including bad access patterns, unsafe migrations, inefficient queries, connection storms, lock contention, replication lag, and capacity bottlenecks. • Create and maintain high-signal dashboards, alerts, SLOs, SLIs, runbooks, and operational readiness checks for database-backed services. • Drive improvements in database backup validation, restore testing, disaster recovery, failover readiness, and business continuity. • Work with security and compliance teams to improve database access controls, auditability, encryption, secrets management, least privilege, and PCI/SOC 2 aligned controls. • Mentor engineers on database design, query performance, safe migrations, operational readiness, and production debugging. • Use automation and AI tooling where appropriate to improve migration review, query analysis, incident investigation, documentation, and developer productivity.

• Design, build, and maintain shared database platform components used by Sezzle applications, such as database connection packages, database client libraries, migration tooling, safety checks, query standards, and developer-facing abstractions. • Establish reliable, scalable patterns for how Sezzle services connect to and interact with relational databases across production, staging, and development environments. • Partner with backend engineering teams to improve database usage in application code, including connection lifecycle, transaction handling, retries, timeouts, pooling, query patterns, and migration workflows. • Build automation and internal tooling that makes database operations safer, more repeatable, and less dependent on manual intervention. • Define and enforce engineering standards for database access, schema design, migrations, indexing, query performance, connection management, and operational readiness. • Architect and improve database infrastructure across AWS RDS/Aurora MySQL, PostgreSQL, RDS Proxy, read replicas, backups, failover, parameter groups, monitoring, and capacity planning. • Lead database reliability initiatives that reduce operational risk, improve performance, and help Sezzle scale safely. • Review application designs and database changes early in the development lifecycle to ensure reliability, scalability, maintainability, and security are built in from the start. • Build guardrails for database migrations, including automated checks, rollback expectations, schema review workflows, migration observability, and production safety controls. • Improve developer self-service for database provisioning, access, schema management, local development, testing, and observability. • Investigate production database issues by combining application telemetry, database metrics, logs, query plans, traces, and cloud infrastructure data. • Identify and fix systemic database problems, not just symptoms — including bad access patterns, unsafe migrations, inefficient queries, connection storms, lock contention, replication lag, and capacity bottlenecks. • Create and maintain high-signal dashboards, alerts, SLOs, SLIs, runbooks, and operational readiness checks for database-backed services. • Drive improvements in database backup validation, restore testing, disaster recovery, failover readiness, and business continuity. • Work with security and compliance teams to improve database access controls, auditability, encryption, secrets management, least privilege, and PCI/SOC 2 aligned controls. • Mentor engineers on database design, query performance, safe migrations, operational readiness, and production debugging. • Use automation and AI tooling where appropriate to improve migration review, query analysis, incident investigation, documentation, and developer productivity.

• Design, build, and maintain shared database platform components used by Sezzle applications, such as database connection packages, database client libraries, migration tooling, safety checks, query standards, and developer-facing abstractions. • Establish reliable, scalable patterns for how Sezzle services connect to and interact with relational databases across production, staging, and development environments. • Partner with backend engineering teams to improve database usage in application code, including connection lifecycle, transaction handling, retries, timeouts, pooling, query patterns, and migration workflows. • Build automation and internal tooling that makes database operations safer, more repeatable, and less dependent on manual intervention. • Define and enforce engineering standards for database access, schema design, migrations, indexing, query performance, connection management, and operational readiness. • Architect and improve database infrastructure across AWS RDS/Aurora MySQL, PostgreSQL, RDS Proxy, read replicas, backups, failover, parameter groups, monitoring, and capacity planning. • Lead database reliability initiatives that reduce operational risk, improve performance, and help Sezzle scale safely. • Review application designs and database changes early in the development lifecycle to ensure reliability, scalability, maintainability, and security are built in from the start. • Build guardrails for database migrations, including automated checks, rollback expectations, schema review workflows, migration observability, and production safety controls. • Improve developer self-service for database provisioning, access, schema management, local development, testing, and observability. • Investigate production database issues by combining application telemetry, database metrics, logs, query plans, traces, and cloud infrastructure data. • Identify and fix systemic database problems, not just symptoms — including bad access patterns, unsafe migrations, inefficient queries, connection storms, lock contention, replication lag, and capacity bottlenecks. • Create and maintain high-signal dashboards, alerts, SLOs, SLIs, runbooks, and operational readiness checks for database-backed services. • Drive improvements in database backup validation, restore testing, disaster recovery, failover readiness, and business continuity. • Work with security and compliance teams to improve database access controls, auditability, encryption, secrets management, least privilege, and PCI/SOC 2 aligned controls. • Mentor engineers on database design, query performance, safe migrations, operational readiness, and production debugging. • Use automation and AI tooling where appropriate to improve migration review, query analysis, incident investigation, documentation, and developer productivity.