Senior Database Reliability Engineer

Crunchyroll, LLC • San Francisco, CA

3d • $203,400 - $254,200

About The Position

As a Senior Database Reliability Engineer, you will be primarily responsible for operating, improving, and maintaining the reliability and operational excellence of our data infrastructure. Your core focus will be to introduce robust best practices for database production support, strengthen our global on-call rotation, and design and build reusable, database-specific Infrastructure as Code (IaC) components to ensure high availability, scalability, and 100% automation.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field.
• 8+ years of experience in database operations, site reliability engineering (SRE), or a related role with a heavy focus on data platforms and core operational infrastructure.
• Strong proficiency in Automation and IaC frameworks, with extensive hands-on experience in building database IaC
• Proven track record in Database Production Support and Operations, with deep practical experience managing robust, highly available 24x7 runtime systems (prior experience handling large-scale database production support at scale is highly valued).
• Extensive experience with the AWS cloud platform and hands-on implementation of CI/CD pipelines and DatabaseOps workflows.
• Proficiency in monitoring and observability tools (e.g., Datadog, CloudWatch, DevOps Guru, Database Performance Insights) to track metrics, latency, throughput, and system errors.
• Strong understanding of various system performance metrics at a low level (such as Disk/IO saturation) and experience identifying or eliminating operational bottlenecks.
• Familiarity with managing large-scale database structures across various systems (SQL and NoSQL).
• Strong problem-solving skills, ownership mentality, proactive communication skills, and a baseline capability to document clear incident response playbooks and operational requirements.

Responsibilities

• Drive, stabilize, and own 24x7 database production support operations, processes, and incident remediation.
• Responsibly track database alerts, establish clear operational procedures, and bring infrastructure alerts to rapid closure.
• Architect, implement, and maintain reusable database-specific IaC components and configurations using frameworks like Terraform, CloudFormation or Pulumi.
• Standardize configurations across multiple datastores to enable automated infrastructure deployment, sizing, and posture management.
• Proactively enable and standardize mission-critical database attributes and configurations by default, including automated backups, failover strategies, timeouts, and lifecycle policies.
• Strengthen and actively participate in the database on-call rotation, identifying SLAs, system vulnerabilities, and operational gaps to eliminate Single Points of Failure (SPOF).
• Manage large-scale data infrastructures, execute cluster management, capacity planning, data governance, compliance reviews, and handle complex data store migrations (such as MariaDB to Aurora/DynamoDB) and major version upgrades safely during non-US low traffic hours.
• Work alongside a seasoned team of database engineering specialists (leveraging existing senior architectural depth on the team) to systematically scale platform features while executing a continuous learning roadmap to expand personal depth in native AWS database services (RDS/Aurora) and complex SQL tuning.

Benefits

• Great compensation package including salary plus performance bonus earning potential, paid annually.
• Flexible time off policies.
• Generous medical, dental, vision, STD, LTD, and life insurance.
• Health Saving Account HSA program.
• Health care and dependent care FSA.
• 401(k) plan, with employer match.
• Employer paid commuter benefit.
• Support program for new parents.
• Pet insurance.
• Some of our offices are pet friendly!

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior