Senior Database Reliability Engineer

🕒 August 26

🇺🇸 United States – Remote

💵 $220k - $240k / year

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

⛑ DevOps & Site Reliability Engineer (SRE)

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📋 Description

• Own the reliability, performance, and availability of production Aurora MySQL databases on AWS across EHR, Data, and AI teams • Manage database alerting end to end and maintain the observability pipeline feeding metrics and alerts into Datadog • Integrate after-hours database alerts into the DevOps on-call rotation • Educate and train engineering teams on database hygiene and high-performing queries • Implement safeguards such as automatic termination of long-running or runaway queries • Provide fast, always-available visibility into queries executing on any database instance • Author and maintain database runbooks for rapid, consistent incident response • Diagnose, optimize, and re-index problematic queries to reduce latency and scale-out load • Review EMR and application queries before release as a performance gate • Architect and right-size Aurora reader topology and read-routing strategy • Own database cost efficiency through instance right-sizing, reserved-capacity/Savings Plan strategy, and storage tiering • Manage replication health, backups, restore testing, failover, and disaster recovery • Establish safe schema-change and migration practices across teams • Partner with the Platform Architect on database workload architecture • Handle protected health information responsibly in a HIPAA-compliant environment

🎯 Requirements

• 6+ years in database reliability engineering, database administration, or database engineering, including ownership of production systems at scale • Deep MySQL expertise, including query optimization, execution-plan analysis, indexing strategy, and replication • Aurora MySQL experience strongly preferred • Hands-on experience operating large, multi-reader Aurora or RDS clusters at terabyte scale, including read-routing and connection management • Strong command of database observability tooling, including Datadog, Percona Monitoring and Management (PMM), Performance Insights, Prometheus/Grafana • Proficiency in Python, Bash, or a similar scripting language for automation • Comfort with infrastructure-as-code, particularly Terraform • Solid AWS operational depth around RDS/Aurora, including cost optimization, instance sizing, reserved capacity, and storage types • Experience with on-call/incident response and authoring runbooks • Excellent communication skills and ability to collaborate across engineering teams • Experience with a cloud data warehouse such as Snowflake, Databricks, or Redshift preferred • Experience in a HIPAA-regulated or other compliance-heavy environment handling sensitive data preferred • Familiarity with query auto-remediation tooling such as pt-kill, Percona Toolkit, statement timeouts, or custom killers preferred • Application-side familiarity with PHP preferred • Knowledge of security best practices for database and cloud environments preferred • Previous experience with agile methodologies and fast-paced environments preferred • Must be legally authorized to work in the US • Must be located in the US

🏖️ Benefits

• Potential equity compensation for outstanding performance • Flexible PTO • Company-wide sponsored lunches • Company paid disability and life insurance benefits • Company paid family and medical leave • Medical, dental, and vision insurance benefits • Discounted pet insurance • FSA/DCA and commuter benefits • 401k • Credits for online fitness classes/gym memberships • Recovery suite at HQ — includes a cold plunge, sauna, and shower • Remote/hybrid environment • Positive impact helping outpatient rehab organizations treat more patients and deliver better care

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