Lead Database Reliability Engineer

🕒 June 18

🏄 California – Remote

🏄 California – Remote

💵 $142k - $198.7k / year

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

⛑ DevOps & Site Reliability Engineer (SRE)

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Coupa Software

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1001 - 5000 employees

Founded 2006

💼 Consulting

📦 Logistics

🏥 Healthcare

Consulting • Logistics • Healthcare

Coupa Software is a leading provider of business spend management solutions. Their platform focuses on optimizing and transforming direct and indirect spend across procurement, finance, supply chain, and IT. Coupa leverages AI and extensive data insights to drive cost efficiencies, manage supplier relationships, and mitigate risks. With products covering areas such as invoicing, payments, expense management, and supply chain collaboration, Coupa serves a wide range of industries including automotive, healthcare, retail, and more. Their comprehensive community and partner ecosystem enable organizations to unlock hidden savings and improve compliance, promoting growth and resilience in a changing economic climate.

📋 Description

• Lead database architecture and design initiatives, delivering scalable, high-performance, reliable solutions aligned with business needs and long-term strategic goals. • Leverage AI/ML technologies to improve database operations through performance optimization, capacity planning, anomaly detection, predictive maintenance, and automation. • Develop, maintain, and enhance database monitoring, alerting, backup, and disaster recovery systems to ensure system health, data integrity, and high availability. • Troubleshoot and resolve complex database issues, providing technical leadership, guidance, and operational support, including participation in on-call rotations. • Ensure compliance with regulatory requirements and internal policies by conducting regular database audits, assessments, and governance reviews. • Collaborate effectively across cross-functional teams, mentor junior database engineers, stay current on emerging database technologies and best practices, and remain flexible to support global teams across multiple time zones.

🎯 Requirements

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Engineering, Science, or a related field (or equivalent practical experience) with 8+ years of hands-on database administration, management, and performance optimization experience. • Deep expertise in MySQL, including database design, implementation, configuration, security, troubleshooting, maintenance, backup/recovery, replication, and performance tuning. • Strong automation and cloud experience, including scripting with Bash, Python, or Ruby and managing large-scale AWS environments, with knowledge of cloud-native database services such as RDS and Aurora; Azure or GCP experience is a plus. • Experience building and maintaining database observability solutions, including monitoring, dashboards, and alerting using tools such as PMM, New Relic, VividCortex, or similar database management platforms. • Expertise in high-availability and disaster recovery solutions, including failover clustering, Orchestrator, and strategies that ensure database reliability, resilience, and business continuity. • Preferred qualifications include experience with PostgreSQL or MongoDB, configuration management tools (Chef/Puppet), Terraform, GitHub-based workflows, and relevant database administration or automation certifications.