Senior Database Reliability Engineer

📋 Description

• Own reliability, performance, availability, and health of production databases on AWS Aurora MySQL
• Manage end-to-end observability; metrics/alerts into Datadog; after-hours alerts in on-call
• Automate safeguards to terminate long-running queries; provide visibility into database activity
• Investigate performance issues by analyzing execution plans, optimizing queries, re-indexing
• Review queries before production release; serve as a performance gate to prevent inefficiencies.
• Educate teams on database hygiene and performance practices.

🎯 Requirements

• 6+ years in database reliability engineering, DBA/engineering, with ownership of production systems
• Deep expertise in MySQL; Aurora MySQL experience strongly preferred.
• Experience operating large multi-reader Aurora/RDS clusters at terabyte scale with read-routing.
• Strong knowledge of observability/monitoring: Datadog, PMM, Performance Insights, Prometheus
• Proficiency with Python or Bash for automation; experience with Terraform.
• Strong AWS operational knowledge: RDS/Aurora, sizing, reserved capacity, storage options, cost

🎁 Benefits

• Remote/hybrid working environment.
• Potential equity compensation based on performance.
• Flexible PTO.
• Company-sponsored lunches.
• Company-paid disability and life insurance.
• Medical, dental, and vision insurance.