Senior PostgreSQL DBRE: Scale, Automation & Reliability

Okta Inc.; Washington (IL); Hybrid; USD 143,000 - 196,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

Equity or bonus participation

401(k)

Paid time off & parental leave

Job summary

Okta Inc. is seeking a Senior Database Reliability Engineer (DBRE) to design, operate, and optimize PostgreSQL at scale across multi-region environments. You will work with SRE, Platform, and Engineering teams to ensure reliability, automation, and solid data infrastructure for mission-critical systems.

This hands-on role emphasizes building resilient data services, not just administration. You will lead performance tuning, disaster recovery planning, and proactive capacity planning while

Qualifications

• 4+ years of hands-on PostgreSQL experience in high-volume production environments.
• Strong knowledge of PostgreSQL internals (WAL, MVCC, bloat, vacuum tuning, query planner).
• Production experience with MySQL (InnoDB internals, replication, performance tuning).
• Experience building automation with Go or Python.
• Experience with cloud environments (AWS or GCP).

Responsibilities

• Design, implement, and operate highly available PostgreSQL clusters (replication, sharding, failover automation).
• Optimize queries, indexing, schemas, and storage engines for performance.
• Develop automation for provisioning, backups, failovers, and schema management.
• Lead incident response and perform root-cause analysis to prevent recurrence.
• Collaborate with engineers to review SQL and guide best practices.

Skills

PostgreSQL expertise

Advanced SQL

Go or Python automation

Linux troubleshooting

Cloud experience (AWS or GCP)

Monitoring & observability

Tools

Prometheus

Grafana

Datadog

PMM

pg_stat_statements

Job description

Okta Inc. is seeking a Senior Database Reliability Engineer (DBRE) to design, operate, and optimize PostgreSQL at scale across multi-region environments. You will work with SRE, Platform, and Engineering teams to ensure reliability, automation, and solid data infrastructure for mission-critical systems.

This hands-on role emphasizes building resilient data services, not just administration. You will lead performance tuning, disaster recovery planning, and proactive capacity planning while