Senior DBA -1 (Database Reliability Engineer)

Role overview

Build and operate reliable database platforms in a cloud-focused environment. This hands-on database reliability role combines deep MySQL administration with automation, infrastructure engineering, and site reliability practices to keep critical services secure, available, and performant.

Responsibilities - Design and maintain enterprise MySQL platforms, including replication, high availability, backup, recovery, and disaster recovery; regularly validate recovery plans. - Automate database provisioning, upgrades, patching, deployments, maintenance, and monitoring with production-quality code and infrastructure as code. - Build and maintain Terraform configurations and deliver changes through Git-based workflows and continuous integration pipelines. - Define service-level objectives and create monitoring, alerting, and dashboards for database health and performance. - Lead incident response and root-cause analysis, document blameless reviews, and implement fixes that prevent recurrence and reduce manual work. - Troubleshoot across Linux, cloud infrastructure, containers, networking, and storage; collaborate with application teams on schemas, queries, capacity, and safe changes.

Requirements - Expert MySQL administration skills, including replication, backup and recovery, high availability, and performance tuning. - Strong Linux troubleshooting experience across databases and infrastructure. - Ability to develop, test, and maintain production automation in a language such as Python, Go, Java, C#, PowerShell, or Bash. - Practical Terraform and infrastructure-as-code experience, plus Git, GitHub, and CI/CD workflows. - Experience operating databases in cloud environments and applying SRE practices such as observability, incident management, and service-level objectives. - Networking fundamentals covering DNS, TCP/IP, load balancing, firewalls, TLS, and virtual networks; experience with AI-assisted engineering tools and validating their output.

Nice to have

Experience with Microsoft Azure, databases on virtual machines or Kubernetes, or AI-assisted and agent-driven automation workflows.

Benefits and work setup

The role is eligible for an annual incentive bonus. Base pay varies by location, with a stated U.S. national range of $71,600–$119,400 and geographic adjustments.