Engineering Manager, Database

$180,000 - $230,000/Yr

Braze - San Francisco, CA

Full-time - Manager

Hybrid - San Francisco, CA

Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services

About the position

As an Engineering Manager at Braze, you will lead the Database Reliability Engineering (DBRE) team, responsible for maintaining and enhancing the database systems that support Braze's platform. This role combines traditional database administration with software engineering, focusing on improving performance, availability, and automation of database infrastructure, primarily using MongoDB and PostgreSQL. You will collaborate with engineering teams to architect scalable solutions, ensure adherence to enterprise-grade SLAs, and foster a thriving team environment.

Responsibilities

• Partner with Braze's engineering teams on architecting products to effectively utilize infrastructure platforms in a scalable, reliable manner.
• Ensure that Braze can meet our strict enterprise-grade SLAs with customers by building products that can beat those SLAs.
• Participate in an on-call rotation to command incidents within your product scope and provide support for other engineers.
• Manage projects via our standard project management process.
• Work on small technical changes/improvements outside the blocking path.
• Foster an environment where team members thrive, and the team executes well.

Requirements

• 5+ years of DevOps/SRE/DBRE Management (or related experience with an increasing set of responsibilities).
• 5+ years of experience running MongoDB or PostgreSQL at scale.
• Proven ability in people management, strategic planning, cost optimization, and management of multiple concurrent projects with competing priorities and overlapping resources.
• History of growing and mentoring team members with a wide range of experience levels.
• Demonstrated success in ensuring risk and change management, observability, and maintaining service level objectives.
• Strong cross-functional collaboration skills, relationship-building skills, and the ability to achieve results across reporting chains.
• High level of ownership and accountability for high-quality work and documentation, both personally and at a team level.
• Comfortable with resource allocation and strong technical background with MongoDB, Redis, Kafka, Postgres, or similar data technologies.

Benefits

• Competitive compensation that may include equity.
• Retirement and Employee Stock Purchase Plans.
• Flexible paid time off.
• Comprehensive benefit plans covering medical, dental, vision, life, and disability.
• Family services that include fertility benefits and equal paid parental leave.
• Professional development supported by formal career pathing, learning platforms, and tuition reimbursement.
• Community engagement opportunities throughout the year, including an annual company wide Volunteer Week.
• Employee Resource Groups that provide supportive communities within Braze.
• Collaborative, transparent, and fun culture recognized as a Great Place to Work®.