Senior DB Reliability Engineer — Automate, Scale, Secure

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

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.