Database Reliability Engineer San Francisco, California, United States

$130,147 - $153,114/Yr

Tbwa Chiat/Day - San Francisco, CA

Full-time - Mid Level

Remote - San Francisco, CA

10,001+ employees

About the position

As a Database Reliability Engineer at Checkr, you will manage cloud database infrastructure, backup policies, and performance tuning across various database platforms. Your role will involve enabling software teams to maximize their understanding and efficient usage of database systems, ensuring resiliency, durability, and high availability.

Responsibilities

• Design and recommend database architectures that address resiliency, durability, and high availability concerns
• Provision and administer database and database-adjacent cloud resources using Infrastructure as Code
• Maintain and troubleshoot database systems in production, staging, and sandbox environments
• Review and occasionally assist with database schema migrations
• Optimize database performance at query, schema, and instance levels
• Embrace and extend BCDR and data protection practices across availability zones, regions, accounts, and providers
• Work closely with the CloudOps team to align on infrastructure best practices
• Work with the larger Delivery Platform team to build out our internal developer platform
• Implement security best practices for data stores
• Automate common database tasks to reduce toil
• Work closely with SRE team and improve observability (alerting, metrics, monitoring) of database schema and infrastructure
• Take part in incident response, diagnosis and follow-up on system outages or alerts across Checkr's customer-serving infrastructure

Requirements

• 2+ years of experience working with relational database concepts, storage systems and architectures
• Experience with Postgres, MySQL, SQL Server, and Mongo database administration and replication topologies at scale
• Experience working with AWS cloud databases such as RDS, Aurora, OpenSearch, ElasticCache, MongoDB Atlas
• Solid people skills and ability to guide software engineers through database best practices with regards to security, schema design, and migrations at scale
• Experience working with Infrastructure-as-code tools such as Terraform and Terragrunt
• An automation mindset that strives to reduce manual interventions wherever relevant

Nice-to-haves

• Gitlab, Github gh-ost, automation tooling knowledge
• AI concepts including prompt engineering and RAG

Benefits

• A fast-paced and collaborative environment
• Learning and development allowance
• Competitive compensation and opportunity for advancement
• 100% medical, dental, and vision coverage
• Up to 25K reimbursement for fertility, adoption, and parental planning services
• Flexible PTO policy
• Monthly wellness stipend
• Home office stipend