Description
At Braze, we're a customer engagement platform that empowers brands to Be Absolutely Engaging™. We're seeking a Senior Database Administrator to join our Platform Engineering division within Infrastructure.
Job Description
The MongoDB Database Administrator (DBA) role is part of the Platform Engineering division within Infrastructure and is responsible for operating, scaling, and securing our internal MongoDB platform. This position supports a growing fleet of MongoDB clusters that back 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
- Relevant proven work 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
Benefits
- 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®