Remote Senior MySQL/Spanner DB Reliability Engineer

Branch Messenger Inc.; United States; Remote; USD 175,000 - 185,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical insurance

Stock options

Wellness subscription

Home-office stipend

401k

Parental leave

Flexible time off

Company holidays

Same Day Pay

Job summary

Branch Messenger Inc. seeks a Senior Database Reliability Engineer (DBRE) to own core databases and ensure high availability and performance across MySQL/CloudSQL on GCP. You will collaborate with engineering and data teams, implement automated pipelines, and lead disaster recovery planning in a remote US setting.

The role focuses on scalable, multi-region deployments with exposure to Cloud Spanner, Redis, and IaC tools. A BS in CS and 5+ years of relevant experience are preferred.

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.
• BS in Computer Science or equivalent program.
• Payments experience (or related industry).
• Experience with the GCP toolset.
• Experience with infrastructure as code.
• Experience with Redis.
• Experience with global, multi-region deployments including sharding.

Responsibilities

• Lead and take ownership of our core database systems to ensure high levels of performance, availability, and security.
• Communicate critical data changes to the data warehousing team.
• Work with engineering and data teams to shepherd schema changes from design to deployment.
• Build and maintain automated data pipelines and production-level testing.
• Proactively detect weak areas and implement automated monitoring and production alerting.
• Document and automate processes to reduce recurring tasks.
• Evaluate new database features to meet scalability and uptime needs.
• Own backup and recovery, define disaster recovery targets.
• Support, debug, and perform RCA on production database issues.

Skills

MySQL/CloudSQL

SQL

MySQL internals

Replication & tuning

Global multi-region deployments

Education

BS in Computer Science

Tools

Google Cloud Spanner

GCP tooling

Redis

Infrastructure as Code

Multi-region deployments

Job description

Branch Messenger Inc. seeks a Senior Database Reliability Engineer (DBRE) to own core databases and ensure high availability and performance across MySQL/CloudSQL on GCP. You will collaborate with engineering and data teams, implement automated pipelines, and lead disaster recovery planning in a remote US setting.

The role focuses on scalable, multi-region deployments with exposure to Cloud Spanner, Redis, and IaC tools. A BS in CS and 5+ years of relevant experience are preferred.