Staff Platform Database Reliability Engineer

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in Canada, +1 more country.

📋 Description

• Provide strategic leadership across various domains while collaborating with product, operations, infrastructure, and platform engineering teams.

• Encourage innovation, continuous improvement, and teamwork within the data systems team.

• Advocate for strategic initiatives that simplify complexity and minimize the technology stack footprint.

• Deploy and manage databases at scale in decentralized cloud, Kubernetes, external, and bare-metal environments.

• Design relational data structures to enhance performance, scalability, and continuity.

• Assess emerging technologies and recommend their adoption.

• Ensure operational processes maintain database stability and scalability.

• Establish best practices for database administration, monitoring, maintenance, testing, and production releases.

• Implement automation-first end-to-end delivery processes.

• Apply security and IAM practices, conduct audits, and ensure traceability.

• Work collaboratively with developers, system administrators, and data scientists to enhance database performance and functionality.

• Present roadmaps during quarterly planning sessions and align them with broader technology goals.

• Lead efforts in problem identification, troubleshooting, resolution, retrospectives, and root-cause analysis to boost reliability and reduce downtime.

⛳️ Requirements

• 7+ years of demonstrated experience as a Database Reliability Engineer, Database Administrator, general SRE focused on data systems, or a comparable role.

• Extensive expertise with databases, particularly MySQL, MariaDB, Galera, PostgreSQL, Kafka, Aerospike, Redis, StarRocks, and Vertica.

• Experience in deploying and managing databases at scale in containerized (Kubernetes) and bare-metal environments.

• Proficiency in programming languages such as Python, Bash/Shell, Kotlin, Java, and/or Golang.

• Solid understanding of automation tools like Ansible, Terraform, and CI/CD tools including Helm, GitLab workflows, and ArgoCD.

• Familiarity with database change management systems like Liquibase, Flywheel, or Alembic.

• Good understanding of observability tools such as Loki, Grafana, Prometheus, etc.

• Basic knowledge of streaming and big data technologies like Kafka, Spark, Flink, Hadoop, Presto/Trino, or Redis.

• Proven leadership, mentoring, and collaborative abilities.

• Excellent problem-solving and troubleshooting skills for globally distributed, low-latency infrastructure.

• Strong communication skills for both technical and non-technical audiences.

🏝️ Benefits

• Comprehensive health, dental, and vision plans for you and your dependents.

• Paid time off, health days, and personal obligation days, along with flexible work schedules.

• Competitive retirement matching plans.

• Equity packages.

• Generous parental leave available for birthing, non-birthing, and adoptive parents.

• Annual well-being allowance, plus fitness discounts and group wellness activities.

• Commuter benefits and discounts, where available.

• Employee assistance program.

• Mental health first aid program that offers immediate support and reassurance.

• One day of volunteer time off each year and a donation-matching program.

• Monthly town halls and regular community-led team events.

• Multiple resources and programs to support continuous learning.

• A workplace that promotes a diverse, equitable, and inclusive environment.