Remote Senior DB Reliability Engineer - MySQL & Spanner

Empleora; Northern (KY); Hybrid; USD 175,000 - 185,000; Full time

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Job summary

Empleora seeks a Senior Database Reliability Engineer to manage production database systems, including MySQL/CloudSQL on Google Cloud Platform and Cloud Spanner for global workloads.

You will lead core databases, coordinate schema changes, and partner with SRE/DevOps to ensure performance, reliability, and security at scale. Strong expertise in MySQL internals and GCP tools is required.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience managing MySQL/CloudSQL at scale.
• Expert at SQL and MySQL specifics including schema design.
• Deep knowledge of MySQL internals.
• Solid understanding of MySQL replication, SQL tuning, and database optimization while minimizing downtime.
• Experience operating Google Cloud Spanner at scale, including schema design and query optimization.

Responsibilities

• Lead, and take ownership of core database systems to ensure high performance, availability, and security.
• Communicate critical data changes to the data warehousing team.
• Collaborate with engineering and data teams to shepherd schema changes from design to deployment.
• Build and maintain automated test and deployment data pipelines with SRE and DevOps teams.
• Proactively detect weak areas and automate monitoring and production alerting.
• Document and automate processes to eliminate recurring tasks.
• Evaluate new database features to meet scalability and uptime requirements.
• Own database backup and recovery and define disaster recovery targets.

Skills

SQL

Database optimization

Schema design

Downtime minimization

Incident response

Education

BS in Computer Science

Tools

MySQL/CloudSQL

Google Cloud Spanner

Redis

GCP toolset

Job description

Empleora seeks a Senior Database Reliability Engineer to manage production database systems, including MySQL/CloudSQL on Google Cloud Platform and Cloud Spanner for global workloads.

You will lead core databases, coordinate schema changes, and partner with SRE/DevOps to ensure performance, reliability, and security at scale. Strong expertise in MySQL internals and GCP tools is required.