Staff Database Reliability Engineer
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New York, NY, USA · Remote
USD 202k-243k / year + Equity
What You'll Do:
- Design, implement, and maintain highly available, scalable, and resilient database systems.
- Develop and apply SRE principles to database operations, including monitoring, observability, incident response, and automation.
- Optimize database performance and query tuning to improve efficiency and reduce latency.
- Automate database provisioning, backups, and schema changes using Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) tools.
- Ensure effective database replication, clustering, failover mechanisms, and disaster recovery strategies.
- Establish and enforce database security best practices, including access control and encryption.
- Collaborate with software engineers to design database schemas and indexing strategies that align with application needs.
- Drive database infrastructure improvements using CI/CD pipelines and automated deployment strategies.
- Participate and manage on-call rotations and provide expert guidance during incidents and post-mortems.
- Stay current with emerging database technologies, best practices, and industry trends.
What You'll Bring:
- Strong experience with Postgres.
- Strong scripting and automation skills in Python, Go, or Bash.
- Proficiency in performance tuning, query optimization, and indexing strategies.
- Hands-on experience with IaC (e.g. Terraform, Pulumi).
- Solid understanding of AWS cloud services, with specific expertise in and experience with RDS.
- Familiarity with observability and monitoring tools (e.g. Datadog, Splunk).
- Understanding of high availability, clustering, and disaster recovery strategies.
- Experience implementing database backup, restore, and replication strategies.
- Knowledge of CI/CD workflows and database change management.
- Excellent problem-solving skills and ability to work in a fast-paced, privacy- and security-focused environment.
We've Got You Covered:
- Full medical, dental, and vision insurance + OneMedical membership
- Healthcare and Dependent Care FSA
- Commuter benefits
- 401(k)
- Flexible PTO
- Fitness reimbursement
- Paid maternity/parental leave
- A never-ending supply of office snacks + coffee + tea
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