Staff Database Reliability Engineer

Drata

84d • $176,600 - $272,700

About The Position

As a Staff Database Reliability Engineer (DBRE), you'll be the technical authority and strategic leader for all things related to Drata's database architecture. You'll own the long-term vision for our data infrastructure, guiding engineering teams and driving significant performance and scalability improvements. Your expertise will be key to shaping our architecture as we grow, ensuring our systems are not just reliable, but exceptionally performant and future-proof. You will be a hands-on evangelist for best practices, combining deep-level query optimizations with high-level architectural leadership to truly elevate how we use our data.

Requirements

• 15+ years of experience with large scale MySQL systems, with a strong emphasis on performance tuning.
• Extensive hands-on experience with AWS Aurora administration and proven expertise in complex performance tuning, backup, and recovery strategies.
• Demonstrated experience guiding and influencing multiple engineering teams on database best practices and architectural decisions.
• Exceptional expertise in writing, analyzing, and optimizing complex SQL queries.
• Proven experience working with Object-Relational Mapping (ORM) frameworks.
• Exceptional analytical and troubleshooting skills.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.

Nice To Haves

• Experience with AWS Elasticache (Redis), AWS DynamoDB or other NoSQL databases.
• Experience with TypeScript and TypeORM.

Responsibilities

• Drive the long-term strategy for scaling, resiliency, and performance of our AWS Aurora clusters and replication environments.
• Act as the lead consultant for engineering teams, providing deep technical guidance on data modeling, query optimization, and architectural patterns.
• Proactively identify and resolve complex performance bottlenecks using advanced observability tools.
• Lead the evaluation, prototyping, and eventual adoption of new database technologies and architectural approaches.
• Take full ownership of our database observability, defining and implementing key metrics and dashboards.

Benefits

• Competitive base salary
• Benefits
• Stock options in the form of Restricted Stock Units (RSUs)

What This Job Offers

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