Senior Database Reliability Engineer - 24x7 Ops & IaC

Crunchyroll

San Francisco (CA)

On-site

USD 180,000 - 260,000

Full time

14 days+

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Benefits offered by this job

Competitive compensation package

Medical, dental, vision

HSA program

401(k) with employer match

Commuter benefits

Pet friendly offices

Parental support

Job summary

Crunchyroll is hiring a Senior Database Reliability Engineer to operate and improve the reliability of our data infrastructure. The role focuses on robust production support, automated database IaC, and scalable, highly available data services across AWS.

The candidate will own 24x7 production support, implement automated backups and failover strategies, and collaborate with a senior engineering team to optimize SQL/NoSQL workloads and drive continuous improvements in observability and incident

Qualifications

Bachelor's degree in CS/IT or a related field
8+ years in database operations, SRE, or related role with data platforms
Strong automation and IaC experience building DB IaC
Experience with AWS and CI/CD for DatabaseOps

Responsibilities

Operate, improve, and maintain reliability of data infrastructure
Enhance database production support and on-call rotation
Architect and maintain database IaC configurations (Terraform, CloudFormation, Pulumi)
Standardize backups, failover strategies, and lifecycle policies
Manage 24x7 database production support and incident remediation
Lead monitoring and alerting for all datastores with metrics on errors, latency, and throughput
Drive automation to minimize manual operational tasks
Contribute to capacity planning, data governance, and platform reliability