Senior Manager, Software Engineering- Database Platform

New Relic - Chicago, IL

Full-time - Senior

Onsite - Chicago, IL

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 blend of technical expertise and strong leadership skills to drive the vision and strategy for the platform while fostering an inclusive and collaborative environment. The manager will oversee technical roadmaps, ensure best practices in software engineering, and mentor team members to achieve their professional goals.

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.
• Collaborate with PMs, technical leaders, and stakeholders to clarify project requirements and execute cross-team initiatives.

Requirements

• 10 years 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.
• Effective at driving transformational projects and unifying technical teams around a common architecture.

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

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