Database Reliability Engineer (DBRE)

Owision AB; United States; Remote; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Owision is seeking an experienced Database Reliability Engineer (DBRE) to own the reliability, performance, scalability, and automation of our MySQL, PostgreSQL, and Oracle fleets across on-premises and multi-cloud platforms (AWS, OCI, Azure).

Operating at the intersection of DBA, SRE, and Platform Engineering, you will treat databases as code, eliminate toil, and build self-healing, highly available, observable data platforms powering mission-critical services.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of hands-on DBRE/SRE/DBA experience in large-scale production environments.
• Strong SRE discipline with SLOs/SLIs and incident handling.
• Deep knowledge of MySQL, PostgreSQL internals and Oracle core basics.

Responsibilities

• Define, monitor, and enforce SLOs, SLIs, and SLAs for DB availability and latency.
• Architect and validate HA configurations, replication, and automated failover.
• Lead database incident response, on-call participation, and RCAs.
• Design, test, and implement DR/BC plans with target RPO/RTO.
• Automate provisioning, scaling, patches, backups, and zero-downtime migrations.
• Build DBaaS self-service tools and CI/CD pipelines for engineering teams.
• Perform deep query optimization and engine-level tuning (InnoDB, autovacuum, AWR/ASH).
• Develop end-to-end monitoring with PMM, Grafana, Datadog, CloudWatch, Zabbix.
• Enforce security: encryption, RBAC, auditing, and data governance.

Skills

DBRE ownership

SRE mindset

Python scripting

Bash scripting

Infrastructure as Code

Database performance tuning

Disaster recovery planning

Tools

Terraform

Ansible

PMM

Grafana

Datadog

CloudWatch

Zabbix

RMAN/NoSQL tooling

Job description

Job Title: Database Reliability Engineer (DBRE) – MySQL, PostgreSQL & Oracle

Location: Remote

Work Mode: Fully Remote

Experience: 5+ years

Start Date: Immediate

Job Summary:

Owision is seeking an experienced Database Reliability Engineer (DBRE) to own the reliability, performance, scalability, and automation of our MySQL, PostgreSQL, and Oracle database fleet across on-premises and multi-cloud platforms (AWS, OCI, Azure). Operating at the intersection of DBA, SRE, and Platform Engineering, you will treat databases as code, eliminate operational toil, and build self-healing, highly available, and observable data platforms that power mission-critical services.

Key Responsibilities:

• Define, monitor, and enforce SLOs, SLIs, and SLAs for database availability, latency, durability, and error budgets across all production tiers.
• Architect, maintain, and continuously validate High Availability (HA) configurations, clustering, replication topologies, and automated failover mechanisms.
• Lead database incident management, participate in on-call rotations, and conduct blameless Root Cause Analyses (RCAs) to implement permanent preventive engineering solutions.
• Design, automate, and regularly test Disaster Recovery (DR) and Business Continuity plans to guarantee strict RPO and RTO targets.
• Treat databases as code by automating provisioning, scaling, patching, backups, and zero-downtime schema migrations using Python, Bash, Terraform, and Ansible.
• Build and maintain internal Database-as-a-Service (DBaaS) self-service tools and CI/CD automation pipelines for engineering teams.
• Conduct deep query optimization, indexing strategies, capacity planning, and engine-level tuning (InnoDB, PostgreSQL autovacuum, Oracle AWR/ASH).
• Build end-to-end monitoring, alerting, and telemetry dashboards using PMM, Grafana, Datadog, CloudWatch, and Zabbix.
• Enforce database security by design, including encryption at rest and in transit, role-based access control, auditing, compliance, and data governance policies.

Required Qualifications:

• 4–6+ years of hands-on experience as a DBRE, SRE, or Systems DBA managing large-scale, production database environments.
• Strong SRE mindset with practical experience managing SLOs/SLIs, error budgets, incident response workflows, and post-mortem practices.
• Deep production expertise in MySQL and PostgreSQL internals, alongside solid working knowledge of Oracle Core (RMAN, Data Guard, OEM, RAC basics).
• Proven hands-on experience with cloud-native database services across AWS (RDS/Aurora), OCI, or Azure Database.
• Strong scripting proficiency in Python and Bash, combined with Infrastructure as Code (IaC) expertise using Terraform and Ansible.
• Extensive experience with enterprise backup and recovery tools (Percona XtraBackup, pgBackRest, RMAN) and replication mechanisms (async, semi-sync, logical).
• Advanced Linux/Unix systems administration skills, OS-level performance tuning, and deep SQL execution plan diagnosis.
• Proven track record of self-directed technical ownership and disciplined incident handling in a fully remote environment.

Preferred Skills:

• Experience deploying and orchestrating stateful database workloads using Docker and Kubernetes.
• Hands-on experience with Oracle E-Business Suite (EBS R12.x) database administration, patching, cloning, and upgrades.
• Familiarity with Microsoft SQL Server (Always On Availability Groups) or NoSQL data platforms (MongoDB, Redis).