Senior Database Reliability Engineer

Jobtailor; Missouri; On-site; USD 140,000 - 200,000; Full time

Job summary

Jobtailor in Missouri seeks a senior database engineer to own enterprise DB platforms, ensure reliability, security, and performance across Credit Acceptance applications.

You will automate provisioning with Terraform and Ansible, partner with cross-functional teams, and lead data replication and DR initiatives.

This role rewards deep distributed-systems experience, strong SQL skills, AWS DMS, and observability tool expertise.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience.
• 7+ years in database engineering / DBA / DBRE roles.
• Strong experience in SQL, performance tuning, HA, backup, and recovery.
• Preferred AWS RDS / Aurora PostgreSQL experience.
• AWS DMS / CDC / replication experience.
• Observability tools experience (Datadog, Grafana, Prometheus).
• DevOps tooling experience (Terraform, Ansible, Jenkins, GitHub Actions).
• Python / shell scripting / REST APIs.

Responsibilities

• Ensure availability, reliability, performance, and security of enterprise database systems supporting Credit Acceptance applications.
• Reduce operational toil through automation.
• Partner with application, infrastructure, and data teams to build and operate modern database platforms.
• Support data replication and migration initiatives.
• Drive continuous improvements in reliability and efficiency.
• Design and implement automated database provisioning and configuration management.
• Develop IaC solutions (Terraform, Ansible).
• Build self-service database capabilities and platform APIs.
• Implement event-driven automation and auto-remediation workflows.
• Define and manage SLIs and SLOs.
• Design and maintain HA and disaster recovery architectures.
• Monitor and optimize database performance, query efficiency, and throughput.

Skills

SQL

Performance tuning

HA & DR

Backup & recovery

Python

DevOps tooling

Education

Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience

Tools

Terraform

Ansible

Jenkins

GitHub Actions

Datadog

Job description

• Ensure the availability, reliability, performance, and security of enterprise database systems supporting Credit Acceptance applications
• Reduce operational toil through automation
• Partner with application, infrastructure, and data teams to build and operate modern database platforms
• Support data replication and migration initiatives
• Drive continuous improvements in reliability and efficiency
• Design and implement automated database provisioning and configuration management
• Develop Infrastructure as Code (IaC) solutions (e.g., Terraform, Ansible)
• Build self-service database capabilities and platform APIs
• Implement event-driven automation and auto-remediation workflows
• Define and manage Service Level Indicators (SLIs) and Service Level Objectives (SLOs)
• Design and maintain high availability (HA) and disaster recovery (DR) architectures
• Monitor and optimize database performance, query efficiency, and throughput

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience
• 7+ years in database engineering / DBA / DBRE roles
• Strong experience in SQL, performance tuning, HA, backup, and recovery
• Preferred AWS RDS / Aurora PostgreSQL experience
• AWS DMS / CDC / replication experience
• Observability tools (Datadog, Grafana, Prometheus, OpenTelemetry)
• DevOps tools (Terraform, Ansible, Jenkins, GitHub Actions)
• Python / shell scripting / REST APIs
• JIT / PAM (CyberArk) experience
• Data lake / warehouse / lakehouse exposure
• Distributed systems / microservices experience
• Linux/Unix expertise