Remote Senior Data Platform Reliability Engineer

NinjaOne; California; Hybrid; USD 160,000 - 210,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid remote

Medical, dental, vision insurance

401(k) plan

Unlimited PTO

Growth opportunities

Job summary

NinjaOne is seeking a Senior Database Reliability Engineer to own the data platform across relational, NoSQL, time-series, and warehouse stores. You will influence architectural and product decisions, ensuring high availability, performance, and a smooth developer experience across a cloud-first environment.

You will collaborate on data-touched product choices, automate provisioning and migrations, and uphold regulatory traceability while shaping the data tooling for engineering teams globally.

Qualifications

• 8+ years in database engineering/administration.
• Experience influencing architecture or product decisions involving data.
• Deep expertise in at least one relational engine plus NoSQL caching.
• Experience with time-series data stores and data warehouse platforms.
• Strong cloud-native experience (AWS) with RDS/Aurora and data services.
• Proficiency in scripting/automation and infrastructure-as-code.
• Track record debugging developer-facing environment issues.
• Excellent written and verbal communication.

Responsibilities

• Own architectural decisions for the data domain — collaborate with Architecture.
• Design, operate, and evolve database platforms across multiple technologies.
• Partner on product decisions touching data early in design.
• Debug environment and developer-experience issues across tooling.
• Expand the data platform footprint by evaluating new technologies.
• Maintain health of database environments: performance, availability, DR, backups, security.
• Automate provisioning, backups, and CI/CD integration.
• Lead migrations and upgrades with minimal disruption.
• Maintain audit logs, schema versioning, and change tracking for regulatory needs.
• Document architecture decisions and runbooks for technical audiences.

Skills

Architectural influence

Data platform mindset

Debugging with logs/metrics

Scripting/automation

IaC proficiency

Tools

Postgres

AWS

Terraform

CloudFormation

Kubernetes

Job description

NinjaOne is seeking a Senior Database Reliability Engineer to own the data platform across relational, NoSQL, time-series, and warehouse stores. You will influence architectural and product decisions, ensuring high availability, performance, and a smooth developer experience across a cloud-first environment.

You will collaborate on data-touched product choices, automate provisioning and migrations, and uphold regulatory traceability while shaping the data tooling for engineering teams globally.