# Senior Database Reliability Engineer (DBRE)

**Company**: Okta
**Location**: San Francisco, California
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $160,000-$220,000 USD
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

### Job Overview

We are seeking a highly skilled Senior Database Reliability Engineer (DBRE) with expertise in PostgreSQL at scale and experience with MySQL. As a DBRE, you will design, operationalize, and optimise the data persistence layer that powers our large-scale, mission-critical systems.

### Responsibilities

#### Architecture, Reliability & Performance

- Design, implement, and operate highly available PostgreSQL clusters, including physical replication, logical replication, sharding/partitioning, and failover automation.

- Optimise query performance, indexing strategies, schema design, and storage engines.

- Perform capacity planning, growth forecasting, and workload modelling.

- Develop and implement high-availability strategies, including automatic failover, multi-AZ/multi-region setups, and disaster recovery.

#### Automation & Tooling

- Develop automation for tasks such as provisioning, configuration, backups, failovers, vacuum tuning, and schema management using tools like Terraform, Ansible, Kubernetes Operators, or custom tooling.

- Build monitoring, alerting, and self-healing systems for PostgreSQL and MySQL.

#### Operations & Incident Response

- Lead response during database incidents, including performance regressions, replication lag, deadlocks, bloat issues, and storage failures.

- Conduct root-cause analysis and implement permanent fixes.

#### Cross-Functional Collaboration

- Collaborate with software engineers to review SQL, optimise schemas, and ensure efficient use of PostgreSQL features.

- Provide guidance on database-related design patterns, migrations, version upgrades, and best practices.

### Required Qualifications

- 4+ years of hands-on PostgreSQL experience in high-volume, distributed, or large-scale production environments.

- Strong knowledge of PostgreSQL internals, including WAL, MVCC, bloat/vacuum tuning, query planner, indexing, and logical replication.

- Production experience with MySQL, including InnoDB internals, replication, and performance tuning.

- Advanced SQL skills and strong understanding of schema design and query optimisation.

- Experience with Linux systems, networking fundamentals, and systems troubleshooting.

- Experience building automation with Go or Python.

- Production experience with monitoring tools like Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog, PMM, and pg_stat_statements.

- Hands-on experience with cloud environments, such as AWS or GCP.

### Preferred/Bonus Qualifications

- Experience with PgBouncer, HAProxy, or other connection-pooling/load-balancing layers.

- Exposure to event streaming (Kafka, Debezium) and change data capture.

- Experience supporting 24/7 production environments with on-call rotation.

- Contributions to open-source PostgreSQL ecosystem.

### What We Offer

- Competitive salary: $160,000 - $220,000 USD per year (for San Francisco Bay Area)

- Equity (where applicable)

- Bonus

- Health, dental, and vision insurance

- 401(k)

- Flexible spending account

- Paid leave (including PTO and parental leave)

## Skills

### Required
- PostgreSQL
- MySQL
- Terraform
- Ansible
- Kubernetes Operators
- Go
- Python
- Prometheus
- Grafana
- Datadog
- PMM
- pg_stat_statements
- AWS
- GCP
- Linux
- SQL

### Nice to have
- PgBouncer
- HAProxy
- Kafka
- Debezium

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