Cloud Database Reliability Engineer (DBRE)

HappyGlobal Service; Santa Clara (CA); On-site; USD 130,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Comprehensive health insurance

401(k) plan with company match

Paid time off and company holidays

Job summary

HappyGlobal Service is seeking a Database Administrator/DBRE to own cloud and on-prem database reliability, performance and security. You will drive engineering solutions for stability and compliance across AWS RDS/Aurora, GCP Cloud SQL, and MySQL/PostgreSQL/Redis/SQL Server environments.

Responsibilities include defining SLOs, enhancing monitoring, implementing backups, optimizing queries, and ensuring high availability with replication and failover.

Qualifications

• 3+ years hands-on DBA / DBRE experience with cloud and on-prem databases.
• Deep expertise in MySQL or PostgreSQL; Redis, SQL Server, or Oracle is a plus.
• Experience with Terraform and scripting (Python or Shell) for automation.

Responsibilities

• Own day-to-day cloud and on-prem database operations and reliability.
• Define and measure database SLOs and strengthen monitoring and alerting.
• Design and implement backup strategies and perform recovery drills.
• Perform SQL review, slow-query optimization, and index planning.
• Maintain high-availability through replication, clustering, and failover.
• Enforce RBAC, data encryption, auditing and masking.
• Collaborate with development, SRE and security teams on automation.

Skills

MySQL

PostgreSQL

Redis

AWS (RDS/Aurora)

GCP (Cloud SQL)

Terraform

Python / Shell scripting

Monitoring & observability

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related field

Tools

Terraform

Job description

HappyGlobal Service is seeking a Database Administrator/DBRE to own cloud and on-prem database reliability, performance and security. You will drive engineering solutions for stability and compliance across AWS RDS/Aurora, GCP Cloud SQL, and MySQL/PostgreSQL/Redis/SQL Server environments.

Responsibilities include defining SLOs, enhancing monitoring, implementing backups, optimizing queries, and ensuring high availability with replication and failover.