Senior Manager, Software Engineering- Database Platform

New Relic - Portland, OR

Full-time - Senior

Onsite - Portland, OR

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 requires a strong technical background combined with excellent mentoring and collaboration skills to drive the vision and strategy for the DbaaS platform while ensuring alignment with product management and engineering teams. The position emphasizes fostering an inclusive environment and promoting best practices in software engineering.

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 the 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.
• Promote a culture of operational and business efficiency, including secure code practices, CI/CD pipeline, unit testing, regression testing, and uptime management.
• Attend Livesite meetings and bring postmortem learning back to the team and organization.
• Drive good software engineering practices such as SOLID design principles, design patterns, and object-oriented design.
• 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 for 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