Senior Database Reliability Engineer

Remotedxb; Dubai; On-site; AED 350,000 - 550,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salaries

Flexible PTO

Medical, dental, and vision insurance

Company paid disability and life

Family and medical leave

401k

Discounted pet insurance

FSA/DCA and commuter benefits

Job summary

Remotedxb seeks a senior Database Reliability Engineer to own the reliability, performance, and availability of production databases (Aurora MySQL on AWS) in Dubai. You will drive observability with Datadog, educate teams on database hygiene, and implement automated safeguards and runbooks to reduce latency and incidents.

You will optimize queries, architect reader topologies, manage cost efficiency, backups, and DR, while handling PHI in a HIPAA-compliant environment and contributing to

Qualifications

• 6+ years in database reliability engineering or administration.
• Deep MySQL expertise including query optimization and execution-plan analysis.
• Hands-on experience with large multi-reader Aurora or RDS clusters at terabyte scale.
• Strong command of database observability tooling (Datadog, PMM, Prometheus/Grafana).
• Proficiency in scripting (Python, Bash) and Infrastructure-as-Code (Terraform).
• Solid AWS operational depth around RDS/Aurora.
• Experience with on-call and incident response.

Responsibilities

• Own the reliability, performance, and availability of all production databases (Aurora MySQL on AWS).
• Manage database alerting and observability via Datadog.
• Educate engineering teams on database hygiene and query performance.
• Implement automated safeguards and query termination.
• Author and maintain database runbooks.
• Optimize queries, indexing, and latency.
• Architect Aurora reader topology and read-routing strategies.
• Manage database cost efficiency and right-sizing.
• Manage replication, backups, and disaster recovery.
• Handle PHI within a HIPAA-compliant environment.

Skills

MySQL optimization

Datadog observability

Terraform IaC

Python scripting

AWS RDS/Aurora

Incident response

Tools

Datadog

PMM

Prometheus/Grafana

Terraform

Python

Bash

AWS

RDS/Aurora

Job description

Responsibilities

• Own the reliability, performance, and availability of all production databases (Aurora MySQL on AWS)
• Manage database alerting and observability via Datadog
• Educate engineering teams on database hygiene and query performance
• Implement automated safeguards and query termination
• Author and maintain database runbooks
• Optimize queries, indexing, and latency
• Architect Aurora reader topology and read-routing strategies
• Manage database cost efficiency and right-sizing
• Manage replication, backups, and disaster recovery
• Handle PHI within a HIPAA-compliant environment

Requirements

• 6+ years in database reliability engineering or administration
• Deep MySQL expertise including query optimization and execution-plan analysis
• Hands-on experience with large, multi-reader Aurora or RDS clusters at terabyte scale
• Strong command of database observability tooling (Datadog, PMM, Prometheus/Grafana)
• Proficiency in scripting (Python, Bash) and Infrastructure-as-Code (Terraform)
• Solid AWS operational depth around RDS/Aurora
• Experience with on-call and incident response

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience operating cloud data warehouses (Snowflake, Databricks, Redshift)
• Experience in HIPAA-regulated or compliance-heavy environments
• Familiarity with query auto-remediation tooling
• Application-side familiarity with PHP
• Knowledge of security best practices for database and cloud environments

Benefits

• Competitive salaries
• Flexible PTO
• Medical, dental, and vision insurance benefits
• Company paid disability and life insurance
• Company paid family and medical leave
• 401k
• Discounted pet insurance
• FSA/DCA and commuter benefits
• Credits for online fitness classes/gym memberships