Senior Database Reliability Engineer

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in Brazil.

📋 Description

• Continuously assess the performance of the data layer, including slow queries, locks, index utilization, saturation, and capacity, while establishing thresholds, alerts, and action plans.

• Perform capacity planning analyses and recommend enhancements to the data architecture in line with product growth.

• Review queries and data models proposed by developers, serving as a consultative resource and upholding standards.

• Define and refine the company's database standards, encompassing naming conventions, versioning, integrity, modeling, and scalability.

• Ensure the consistent application of best practices across engineering teams.

• Oversee the database change cycle across development, staging, and production environments, implementing CI/CD workflows suitable for schema and data modifications.

• Evaluate migration risks, establish maintenance windows, and formulate rollback strategies.

• Develop and manage backup, restore, replication, and disaster recovery strategies, including regular recovery testing.

• Maintain availability Service Level Objectives (SLOs) and the data layer's Recovery Point Objectives (RPO) and Recovery Time Objectives (RTO).

• Create and evaluate permission policies, access segregation, and auditing protocols.

• Ensure compliance with relevant security and data protection regulations, including the LGPD (Brazilian General Data Protection Law) and the frameworks adopted by the organization.

• Innovate and enhance internal tools to improve developer experience (DX), observability, access management, and the scalability of data operations.

• Serve as a technical liaison between product engineering, infrastructure, and security.

⛳️ Requirements

• Significant experience as a DBA, DBRE, data SRE, or Data Engineer with an emphasis on reliability in critical production settings.

• Advanced SQL skills along with expertise in query optimization, interpreting execution plans, lock analysis, and index management.

• Proficiency in relational modeling and integrity patterns, as well as experience in versioning and schema migrations.

• Familiarity with backup, restore, replication, and disaster recovery strategies, including recovery testing.

• Experience with managed cloud databases such as AWS RDS/Aurora, Google Cloud SQL, or their equivalents.

• Knowledge of CI/CD practices as applied to database changes, including versioned migrations, automated reviews, and controlled deployments across development, staging, and production environments.

• Database observability experience with tools such as Datadog, New Relic, Grafana, or similar.

• Understanding of data security and governance, including permission management, least-privilege principles, and audit controls.

• Nice-to-haves: Experience in healthtech or other regulated sectors, with an understanding of LGPD and compliance standards (ISO 27001, SOC 2).

• Experience with NoSQL databases and hybrid architectures (relational + NoSQL + cache).

• Proven experience in developing internal tools (platforms, CLIs, automations) that enhance database practices for product teams.

• Background working in high-growth environments with autonomous teams.

• Familiarity with Infrastructure as Code (IaC) using Terraform applied to the data layer.

🏝️ Benefits

• CAJU card: R$ 1,059.00 monthly credit allocated across various categories including Meal, Food, Mobility, Health, Home Office, Culture, and Education.

• AMIL S450 Health Plan – APTO, featuring a 30% copayment for consultations and exams, as well as 40% for PS; extendable to legal dependents (spouses and/or children up to 24 years old), with dependent fees deducted from payroll. Cost per dependent: R$ 506.86 per person + copayment.

• Omni Saúde: Designed for purchasing prescription medications, with a monthly balance of R$ 100.00 allocated to the employee exclusively for medications prescribed by our Hospital Conexa.

• Complimentary access to the Conexa and Zenklub platforms, offering online consultations for both mental and physical health.

• Childcare assistance in accordance with regional collective agreements and Extended Maternity/Paternity Leave options: maternity leave can be extended to 6 months, while paternity leave is 30 days.

• AMIL Life Insurance: We prioritize your security and that of your loved ones.

• Birthday month day off: Enjoy a day off during your birthday month to celebrate as you prefer.

• Totalpass and Wellhub: Resources to support you in achieving your fitness goals.

• Course discounts: Conexa provides educational partnerships with multiple institutions for your personal and professional development.

• SESC Benefit: Access to sports activities, cultural events, leisure, courses, and more under special conditions for employees and their dependents.

• Transportation voucher: 6% salary deduction, if opted in.