# Senior Database Administrator

**Company**: Braze
**Location**: New York City
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $128,842 - $232,200/annually
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

Braze seeks a Senior Database Administrator to join its Platform Engineering division. The successful candidate will operate, scale, and secure Braze's internal MongoDB platform, which supports product-critical features, internal systems, and distributed services.

**Responsibilities**

- Operate production MongoDB clusters running in Kubernetes across multiple regions and clouds

- Monitor cluster health, performance, replication, and storage usage, and proactively address degradation

- Debug and resolve availability, latency, or data consistency issues in partnership with SREs

- Participate in on-call rotations as a subject matter expert for MongoDB infrastructure

- Automate routine operations such as database user management, cluster scaling, version upgrades, and backup restores

- Maintain and improve internal tooling used for MongoDB observability, lifecycle management, and access control

- Collaborate with Platform Engineering on Kubernetes-based deployment patterns and GitOps workflows

- Implement and maintain point-in-time recovery, daily snapshots, and cross-region backup strategies

- Regularly validate restores and participate in resilience exercises and disaster recovery planning

- Partner with Security and Compliance teams to ensure backups meet RTO/RPO targets and audit requirements

- Assist product engineering teams with schema design, indexing strategies, and performance tuning

- Promote internal best practices for efficient queries, data modeling, and shard key design

- Document operational runbooks, configuration standards, and performance baselines

**Requirements**

- 3–5+ years of experience managing MongoDB in production environments at scale

- Strong working knowledge of replica sets, sharding, WiredTiger storage engine, oplogs, and journaling

- Experience operating MongoDB in cloud or containerized environments (Kubernetes preferred)

- Comfortable with automation and scripting in languages like Bash, Python, or Go

- Proficient with MongoDB CLI tools, Atlas APIs, and backup/restore tooling (e.g., mongodump, mongorestore, mongosh, Ops Manager)

- Familiar with observability stacks (e.g., Datadog, Prometheus, Grafana) and alerting strategies

- Experience with GitOps workflows and infrastructure-as-code tools (Terraform, Helm, ArgoCD) is a plus

**Nice to Have**

- Experience with other database platforms (e.g., PostgreSQL, MySQL, DynamoDB)

- Familiarity with security best practices and compliance frameworks like SOX or SOC 2

- Contributions to open source MongoDB tooling or community forums

**What We Offer**

- Competitive compensation that may include equity

- Retirement and Employee Stock Purchase Plans

- Flexible paid time off

- Comprehensive benefit plans covering medical, dental, vision, life, and disability

- Family services that include fertility benefits and equal paid parental leave

- Professional development supported by formal career pathing, learning platforms, and a yearly learning stipend

- A curated in-office employee experience, designed to foster community, team connections, and innovation

- Opportunities to give back to your community, including an annual company-wide Volunteer Week and donation matching

- Employee Resource Groups that provide supportive communities within Braze

- Collaborative, transparent, and fun culture recognized as a Great Place to Work®

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## Skills

### Required
- MongoDB
- Kubernetes
- GitOps
- Python
- Bash
- Go
- Datadog
- Prometheus
- Grafana
- Terraform
- Helm
- ArgoCD

### Nice to have
- PostgreSQL
- MySQL
- DynamoDB
- SOX
- SOC 2

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