Senior Database Reliability Engineer (DBRE)

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

About us:

Branch is on a mission to empower workers with financial freedom. We do this by helping companies accelerate payments and providing working Americans with accessible, free financial services. We’re committed to building and delivering more inclusive, transparent, and frictionless financial products.

Our goal of empowerment extends to our own employees, too. Have a great idea? Share it today and it might just get implemented tomorrow. As a member of our team, your voice and creativity matter—and they can directly impact our products, company, and culture.

We not only focus on attracting great talent from across the country, but also on building teams that help that talent thrive. That means valuing a diversity of opinions and working styles, while creating a shared belief in innovation, initiative, and winning together.

Come join our team as we develop new ways to improve the lives of working Americans.

About the role:

This Senior Database Reliability Engineer is responsible for supporting all production database systems so that they run smoothly. We run MySQL 8.4 on Google Cloud Platform’s CloudSQL, alongside Google Cloud Spanner for globally distributed workloads.

Responsibilities include, but are not limited to

• 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 alongside both engineering teams and data teams to shepherd schema changes from design to deployment to ensure architectural and downstream compatibility
• Build and maintain automated test and deployment data pipelines, including production level data testing at scale, with SRE and DevOps teams
• Proactively work on detecting weak areas and incorporate into automated monitoring and production alerting with our Cloud Ops teams
• Document and automate processes to eliminate time spent on recurring tasks
• Evaluate new database features (and products if needed) to meet scalability and global uptime requirements
• Own database backup and recovery, and help establish disaster recovery targets and practices as the systems scale
• Support, debug, and perform RCA on production database issues, and participate in incident response as needed

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
• Bonus points for:
• 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

Compensation:

The base salary range for this role is $175-185k. The salary range displayed reflects an average base salary range for the position across all the U.S. The base salary offered to an applicant could be higher or lower based on each applicant's specific skill set, depth of experience, relevant education or training, etc.

Location:

This position is classified as REMOTEwithin the United States of America.

We are unable to hire candidates located outside of the domestic U.S.

Benefits:

• Market-leading medical, dental, and vision insurance
• Stock options
• Free Premium-Tier Origin Financ