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Senior Database Reliability Engineer
Rol remoto de Database Reliability Engineering con fit claro de ubicación del candidato.
Publicado9 jul 2026
Países elegibles1 país aceptado
Señal de senioritySenior
Modelo de trabajoRemoto
Ubicaciones aceptadas para candidatos
Estados Unidos
Resumen del rol
Senior Database Reliability Engineer
Requisitos y responsabilidades
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Outcome and Activities
- This position will work from home; occasional planned travel to an assigned Southfield, Michigan office location may be required. However, this position is permitted to work at a Southfield, Michigan office location if requested by the team member
Platform Engineering & Automation
- Design and implement automated database provisioning and configuration management
- Develop Infrastructure as Code (IaC) solutions (e.g., Terraform, Ansible)
- Build self-service database capabilities and platform APIs
- Implement event-driven automation and auto-remediation workflows
- Establish policy-driven guardrails for database configuration, access, and compliance
- Integrate database services into CI/CD pipelines and release workflows
Reliability, Availability & Resilience
- Define and manage Service Level Indicators (SLIs) and Service Level Objectives (SLOs)
- Design and maintain high availability (HA) and disaster recovery (DR) architectures
- Perform failover testing and resilience validation
- Lead incident response, root cause analysis (RCA), and post-incident reviews
- Drive improvements in MTTD and MTTR
Performance & Scalability Engineering
- Monitor and optimize database performance, query efficiency, and throughput
- Identify and resolve application-database performance bottlenecks
- Design for scalability and workload isolation (replicas, partitioning, sharding)
- Conduct capacity planning and forecasting
- Optimize cost-performance efficiency in cloud environments
Observability & Monitoring
- Implement monitoring, logging, and alerting frameworks
- Define and track database golden signals (latency, errors, throughput, saturation)
- Build dashboards for health, performance, and capacity trends
- Integrate telemetry into central observability platforms
- Develop proactive alerting and anomaly detection
Data Replication & Migration
- Design and manage replication strategies (logical, physical, CDC)
- Implement and operate AWS DMS or equivalent tools
- Enable near real-time data movement across systems
- Troubleshoot replication lag and data consistency issues
- Support large-scale database migrations (e.g., Oracle → PostgreSQL/Aurora)
Security & Access Control
- Implement least privilege, role-based access controls
- Enable Just-In-Time (JIT) access using PAM solutions (e.g., CyberArk)
- Enforce secure access patterns and eliminate direct production DB access
- Manage credentials using centralized secrets management
- Ensure adherence to audit, compliance, and governance requirements
- Support encryption standards (in transit and at rest)
Database & Data Access Engineering
- Support data modeling, indexing, partitioning, and schema optimization
- Demonstrate familiarity with modern database access technologies:ORM frameworks (Hibernate, JPA, SQLAlchemy)JDBC and connection management best practicesGraphQL and API-driven data access patterns
- ORM frameworks (Hibernate, JPA, SQLAlchemy)
- JDBC and connection management best practices
- GraphQL and API-driven data access patterns
- Design and promote Data Access Layer (DAL) architectures
- Optimize data access patterns to improve performance and scalability
Details
- ORM frameworks (Hibernate, JPA, SQLAlchemy)
- JDBC and connection management best practices
- GraphQL and API-driven data access patterns
- AWS RDS / Aurora (PostgreSQL preferred)
- DynamoDB
- Oracle
- SQL Server
- MongoDB
- MySQL
Database & Data Access Engineering
- Manage database schema lifecycle using version-controlled tools (Liquibase/Flyway)
- Enable automated deployments and zero-downtime database changes
- Implement testing strategies for database changes
- Partner with engineering teams to improve database usage patterns
- Provide guidance on best practices, ORM usage, and performance tuning
- Promote shift-left adoption of database design and reliability practices
Cloud Database Operations
- Manage and support cloud database platforms, including:AWS RDS / Aurora (PostgreSQL preferred)DynamoDBOracleSQL ServerMongoDBMySQL
- AWS RDS / Aurora (PostgreSQL preferred)
- DynamoDB
- Oracle
- SQL Server
- MongoDB
- MySQL
Other Responsibilities
- Participate in a 24/7 on-call rotation
Other Responsibilities
- Customer Empathy: Customer Empathy is the ability to understand the perspectives, pain points, and experiences of customers. It involves actively putting oneself in the customer’s shoes, comprehending their needs and challenges, and using that understanding to provide a better, more customer-centric experience.
- Engineering Excellence: Engineering Excellence is about bringing great craftsmanship and thought leadership to deliver an outstanding product that delights customers and solves for the business. This involves the pursuit and achievement of high standards, best practices, innovation, and superior solutions.
- One Team: A One Team mindset refers to a collaborative approach across the organization, where individuals work together seamlessly, without boundaries, as a single, cohesive team. Shared goals, open communication and mutual support create a sense of collective purpose. This enables teams to navigate challenges and pursue shared objectives more effectively.
- Owner’s Mindset: Owner’s Mindset involves adopting a set of behaviors that reflect a sense of responsibility, accountability, strategic thinking, and a proactive approach to managing your domain. As an owner, you understand the business and your domain(s) deeply and solve for the right outcome for the domain(s) and the business.
Requirements:
- Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience
- 7+ years in database engineering / DBA / DBRE roles
- Strong experience in SQL, performance tuning, HA, backup, and recovery
Preferred
- AWS RDS / Aurora PostgreSQL experience
- AWS DMS / CDC / replication experience
- Observability tools (Datadog, Grafana, Prometheus, OpenTelemetry)
- DevOps tools (Terraform, Ansible, Jenkins, GitHub Actions)
- Python / shell scripting / REST APIs
- JIT / PAM (CyberArk) experience
- Data lake / warehouse / lakehouse exposure
- Distributed systems / microservices experience
- Linux/Unix expertise
- Impact Analysis
- Solution Design
- Technical Domain Expertise
- Testing & Validation
Benefits
- Excellent benefits package that includes 401(K) match, adoption assistance, parental leave, tuition reimbursement, comprehensive medical/ dental/vision and many nonstandard benefits that make us a Great Place to Work
Our Company Values:
- Positive by maintaining resiliency and focusing on solutions
- Respectful by collaborating and actively listening
- Insightful by cultivating innovation, accumulating business and role specific knowledge, demonstrating self-awareness and making quality decisions
- Direct by effectively communicating and conveying courage
- Earnest by taking accountability, applying feedback and effectively planning and priority setting
Expectations:
- Remain compliant with our policies processes and legal guidelines
- All other duties as assigned
- Attendance as required by department
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