Engineering Manager, Database

$200,000 - $250,000/Yr

Braze - Austin, TX

Full-time - Manager

Hybrid - Austin, TX

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 improving the database systems that support Braze's platform. This role combines traditional database administration with software engineering principles to enhance performance, availability, and reliability of database infrastructure, primarily using MongoDB and PostgreSQL. You will collaborate with engineering teams to architect scalable solutions, manage projects, 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 strict enterprise-grade SLAs with customers by building products that can exceed 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

• Dental insurance
• Health insurance
• Paid parental leave
• Paid time off
• Parental leave
• RSU
• Tuition reimbursement