Senior Database Reliability Engineer (DBRE)

Branch

4d•$175,000 - $185,000•Remote

About The Position

This Senior Database Reliability Engineer is responsible for supporting all production database systems so that they run smoothly. We run MySQL 8.4 on Google Cloud Platform’s CloudSQL, alongside Google Cloud Spanner for globally distributed workloads.

Requirements

5+ years of experience managing MySQL/CloudSQL at scale
Expert at SQL and MySQL specifics including schema design
Deep knowledge of MySQL internals
Solid understanding of MySQL replication, SQL tuning, and database optimization while minimizing downtime
Experience operating Google Cloud Spanner at scale, including schema design and query optimization
BS in Computer Science or equivalent program

Nice To Haves

Payments experience (or related industry)
Experience with the GCP toolset
Experience with infrastructure as code
Experience with Redis
Experience with global, multi-region deployments including sharding

Responsibilities

Lead, and take ownership of our core database systems to ensure high levels of performance, availability, and security
Communicate critical data changes to the data warehousing team
Work alongside both engineering teams and data teams to shepherd schema changes from design to deployment to ensure architectural and downstream compatibility
Build and maintain automated test and deployment data pipelines, including production level data testing at scale, with SRE and DevOps teams
Proactively work on detecting weak areas and incorporate into automated monitoring and production alerting with our Cloud Ops teams
Document and automate processes to eliminate time spent on recurring tasks
Evaluate new database features (and products if needed) to meet scalability and global uptime requirements
Own database backup and recovery, and help establish disaster recovery targets and practices as the systems scale
Support, debug, and perform RCA on production database issues, and participate in incident response as needed