Senior Database Reliability Engineer

📋 Description

• Own the reliability, performance, and availability of all production databases (Aurora MySQL on
• Manage database alerting end to end – observability pipeline to Datadog; fold after-hours alerts
• Educate engineering teams about proper database hygiene and best-performing queries.
• Implement automated safeguards, including automatic termination of long-running queries and visible
• Author and maintain database runbooks for quick, consistent incident response.
• Diagnose, optimize, and re-index problematic queries to reduce latency and load.

🎯 Requirements

• 6+ years in database reliability engineering, administration, or engineering with production
• Deep MySQL expertise — query optimization, execution plans, indexing, replication; Aurora MySQL
• Experience operating large multi-reader Aurora/RDS clusters at terabyte scale with read-routing.
• Strong observability tooling knowledge (Datadog, PMM, Performance Insights, Prometheus/Grafana).
• Automation scripting (Python, Bash) and infrastructure-as-code (Terraform).
• Solid AWS RDS/Aurora experience and cost optimization skills.

🎁 Benefits

• Remote/hybrid environment
• Competitive salaries
• Potential equity compensation for outstanding performance
• Flexible PTO
• Company-paid disability and life insurance
• Medical, dental, and vision insurance