Senior Lead Database Reliability Engineer

• Drive the technical roadmap for database reliability across PostgreSQL MySQL MongoDB Redis ScyllaDB Aerospike and managed cloud services while shaping architecture for high availability replication partitioning storage and connection management.
• Design and build automation first database platforms by developing Kubernetes operators infrastructure as code GitOps workflows and production quality tooling in Go or Python to automate provisioning failover backups schema migrations and lifecycle management.
• Lead operational excellence by defining service level objectives monitoring database health capacity and performance eliminating recurring reliability issues validating backup and recovery processes and leading critical production incidents through resolution and continuous improvement.
• Optimize database performance and cost across cloud and on premises environments by driving capacity planning resource efficiency storage optimization workload consolidation and performance tuning for large scale systems.
• Partner closely with application engineering teams to establish safe database practices including schema reviews migration strategies query optimization connection management and zero downtime deployment processes.
• Leverage AI to improve engineering productivity and database operations through intelligent observability anomaly detection root cause analysis documentation predictive insights and evaluation of AI generated code to ensure reliability and security.
• Mentor engineers across the organization by sharing best practices leading design and code reviews influencing technical direction supporting hiring efforts and raising the overall maturity of database reliability engineering.

• At least 6 years of experience in Database Reliability Engineering Database Platform Engineering or Site Reliability Engineering with a strong database focus including technical leadership experience delivering complex database infrastructure projects at scale.
• Deep expertise in at least one major relational database preferably PostgreSQL along with operational experience supporting technologies such as MySQL MongoDB Redis ScyllaDB Aerospike Aurora Cloud SQL and other managed cloud database services.
• Strong experience building and operating stateful workloads on Kubernetes using technologies such as StatefulSets Persistent Volumes database operators Terraform Pulumi FluxCD ArgoCD GKE and EKS.
• Hands on software development experience using Go or Python to create automation platform tooling Kubernetes controllers APIs and infrastructure that reduces manual effort and improves engineering efficiency.
• A data driven automation first mindset with proven experience improving reliability through observability monitoring service level objectives capacity planning performance optimization and self service engineering solutions.
• Practical experience using AI tools such as Claude GitHub Copilot Cursor MCP or similar technologies to improve design coding documentation troubleshooting and operational workflows while applying sound engineering judgment to validate AI generated outputs.
• Excellent leadership and communication skills with a track record of mentoring engineers influencing architectural decisions collaborating across engineering teams producing clear technical documentation and driving continuous improvement in highly available production environments.

What We Do

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