Senior Data Platform Reliability Engineer - Remote

NinjaOne

Texas

Hybrid

USD 150,000 - 210,000

Full time

3 days ago

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Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid remote work

Medical, dental, vision insurance

401(k) plan

Unlimited PTO

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Job summary

NinjaOne is seeking a Senior Database Reliability Engineer to own data platform architecture and reliability across relational, NoSQL, and warehouse stores. You’ll influence product decisions, improve tooling, and ensure high availability for our global data workloads.

You will collaborate with Architecture, Engineering, and product teams to design scalable data solutions, optimize performance, and drive automation from development through CI/CD, maintaining data governance and security across

Qualifications

8+ years in database engineering/administration, incl. 3+ yrs with multiple DBs.
Experience influencing architecture or product decisions involving data.
Deep expertise in at least one relational engine plus NoSQL/caching.
Experience with time-series stores and data warehouse platforms (Redshift, Snowflake, BigQuery).
Strong cloud-native experience (AWS) — RDS/Aurora, IAM, encryption, networking for data services.
Proficiency in scripting/automation and infrastructure-as-code (Terraform, CloudFormation).
Ability to debug developer-facing environment issues beyond production incidents.
Strong troubleshooting using logs, metrics, and query analysis.

Responsibilities

Own architectural and lifecycle decisions for the data domain with Architecture.
Design, operate, and evolve database platforms across multiple technologies.
Partner with Architecture on data-facing product decisions early in design.
Debug and resolve environment and developer-experience issues across tooling.
Collaborate on expanding the data platform footprint with new tech.
Maintain health of database environments: performance, DR, backups, security.
Optimize performance, indexing, and storage/compute configurations.
Automate provisioning, backup, and CI/CD integration.
Lead migrations, upgrades, and tech transitions with minimal disruption.
Maintain audit logs and schema versioning for regulatory traceability.