Senior Manager, Software Engineering- Database Platform

New Relic - Seattle, WA

Full-time - Senior

Onsite - Seattle, WA

Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services

About the position

The Senior Manager, Software Engineering - Database Platform at Relic is responsible for leading a team of engineers to design, build, and manage a secure, scalable, and reliable cloud-based Database as a Service (DbaaS) platform. This role involves driving the software architecture and design of large-scale distributed systems, collaborating with various stakeholders, and fostering a culture of operational efficiency and continuous learning. The ideal candidate will have a strong technical background, excellent mentoring skills, and the ability to guide teams towards success in a fast-paced environment.

Responsibilities

• Own and work with a team of engineers to design, build, implement and manage a secure, scalable and reliable cloud-based Database as a Service (DbaaS) platform.
• Drive and contribute to the software architecture and design of existing large-scale distributed systems and the new DbaaS Platform.
• Own and drive vision and strategy for the DbaaS platform, providing architectural guidance for security, reliability, scalability, resilience, disaster recovery, performance optimization, and cost.
• Manage technical roadmaps, balancing new features, service reliability, and technical debt reduction.
• Collaborate with leadership, product management, and engineering to align priorities and plans.
• Drive a culture of operational and business efficiency, including secure code practices, CI/CD pipeline, unit testing, and blameless postmortems.
• Attend Livesite meetings and bring postmortem learning back to the team and organization.
• Promote good software engineering practices like SOLID design principles and object-oriented programming.
• Coach and mentor team members, driving recruitment, training, development, and retention of talent.
• Regularly collaborate with PMs, technical leaders, and other stakeholders to clarify project requirements and execute cross-team initiatives.

Requirements

• 10 years of programming and administration experience with technical depth in databases such as MySQL, PostgreSQL, and Redis on AWS, Google Cloud, and Azure platforms.
• 6+ years of people management experience.
• Hands-on experience in software architecture and design of large-scale multi-tiered Database Platforms and distributed software applications.
• Proven expertise in building and maintaining secure, scalable, and highly available cloud-agnostic DBaaS platforms.
• Strong DevOps experience in developing and maintaining database infrastructure on major public cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP).
• Experience with architectural patterns for resiliency, geo-availability, and disaster recovery.
• Experience in large, complex, geographically distributed enterprise environments.
• Proficient in Infrastructure-as-Code for multi-cloud and multi-region deployment.
• Familiarity with modern cloud deployments, compute, storage, networking, containers, databases, and security.
• Excellent communication skills, capable of engaging both technical and executive audiences.

Nice-to-haves

• Strong experience in cloud DBaaS production environments.
• Experience with Crossplane or similar tools for controlling cloud-managed services.
• RDBMS skills in SQL or NoSQL including schema design, query optimization, and performance tuning.
• Experience with Vector Database.
• Experience working in large SaaS environments.

Benefits

• Healthcare coverage
• Dental insurance
• Vision insurance
• Parental leave
• Mental health benefits
• 401(k) plan and match
• Flex time-off
• 11 paid holidays
• Volunteer time off