Database EngineerMust have: - 8+ years of experience in database engineering, administration, and production support. - Hands-on expertise in Oracle, MongoDB, and PostgreSQL, including high availability, replication, clustering, patching, and upgrades. - Strong experience in performance tuning, query optimization, indexing, capacity planning, backup, PITR, and disaster recovery. - Ability to monitor and troubleshoot complex production issues, perform root-cause analysis, and support on-call operations. - Working knowledge of Linux/Unix and scripting or automation using Python, Shell, or equivalent tools.
Good to have - Experience with AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud managed database services. - Knowledge of infrastructure as code, CI/CD, and database observability tools such as Prometheus, Grafana, Splunk, or ELK/OpenSearch. - Understanding ITIL processes and experience preparing runbooks, operational dashboards, and DR test reports. - Relevant database, cloud, or site reliability engineering certifications. Responsibility/Expectation - Administer and maintain highly available Oracle, MongoDB, and PostgreSQL production environments.
- Perform database performance tuning, query optimization, indexing, and capacity planning. - Monitor database health, replication, storage, connections, locks, and resource consumption, and resolve issues proactively. - Lead database incident triage, service restoration, root-cause analysis, and preventive actions. - Automate provisioning, monitoring, maintenance, backup validation, recovery testing, and operational reporting. - Partner with application and platform teams on schema design, migrations, releases, security, and non-functional requirements.
- Maintain database documentation, runbooks, DR evidence, and operational status updates for stakeholders. - Design and manage robust backup, point-in-time recovery (PITR), failover and DR strategies to guarantee strict Recovery Point Objective (RPO) and Recovery Time Objective (RTO) targets Location: Austin, TX/ Sunnyvale, CA Salary Range: $100,000 - $135,000 a year
Sr Database Administrator - Production Reliability in sunnyvale at Unknown Company
This position is listed as full time and onsite.