Senior Database Reliability Engineer

Responsibilities

• Own the reliability, performance, and availability of all production databases (Aurora MySQL on AWS)
• Manage database alerting and observability via Datadog
• Educate engineering teams on database hygiene and query performance
• Implement automated safeguards and query termination
• Author and maintain database runbooks
• Optimize queries, indexing, and latency
• Architect Aurora reader topology and read-routing strategies
• Manage database cost efficiency and right-sizing
• Manage replication, backups, and disaster recovery
• Handle PHI within a HIPAA-compliant environment

Requirements

• 6+ years in database reliability engineering or administration
• Deep MySQL expertise including query optimization and execution-plan analysis
• Hands-on experience with large, multi-reader Aurora or RDS clusters at terabyte scale
• Strong command of database observability tooling (Datadog, PMM, Prometheus/Grafana)
• Proficiency in scripting (Python, Bash) and Infrastructure-as-Code (Terraform)
• Solid AWS operational depth around RDS/Aurora
• Experience with on-call and incident response

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience operating cloud data warehouses (Snowflake, Databricks, Redshift)
• Experience in HIPAA-regulated or compliance-heavy environments
• Familiarity with query auto-remediation tooling
• Application-side familiarity with PHP
• Knowledge of security best practices for database and cloud environments

Benefits

• Competitive salaries
• Flexible PTO
• Medical, dental, and vision insurance benefits
• Company paid disability and life insurance
• Company paid family and medical leave
• 401k
• Discounted pet insurance
• FSA/DCA and commuter benefits
• Credits for online fitness classes/gym memberships