Senior Database Reliability Engineer (DBRE)
BranchAdTech company
Remote$175K - $185KSenior
New Enterprise Associates
Founders Fund
Playground Ventures
Ben Narasin
Pejman Mar Ventures
Zach Coelius
Software Engineering
About the role
TL;DR
Senior DBRE to ensure high performance, availability, and security of production database systems.
- •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.
- •Key Responsibilities Lead, and take ownership of our core database systems to ensure high levels of performance, availability, and security Build and maintain automated test and deployment data pipelines, including production level data testing at scale, with SRE and DevOps teams 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 Evaluate new database features (and products if needed) to meet scalability and global uptime requirements Requirements 5+ years of experience managing MySQL/CloudSQL at scale Expert at SQL and MySQL specifics including schema design 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
Required skills
MySQLGoogle CloudSQLTerraformDockerKubernetesCI/CDGitLinux
Nice-to-have skills
RedisPythonJavaScriptTypeScriptBash
Domain expertise
fintech
Benefits & perks
Market-leading medical, dental, and vision insurance, Stock options, Free Premium-Tier Origin Financial Wellness subscription, Monthly home-office stipend, 401k (TransAmerica), 12-weeks paid parental leave for birthing and non-birthing parents, Flexible time off + sick and safe time, 11 paid company holidays, Branch@Branch Same Day Pay Option
Tech stack
MySQLGoogle CloudSQLPythonJavaScriptTypeScriptBashRedisTerraformDockerKubernetesCI/CDGit