We鈥檙e looking for an experienced, hands-on Database Reliability Engineering (DBRE) Team Leader to head Wix鈥檚 core DBRE team. In this role, you鈥檒l be responsible for the reliability, scalability, and performance of Wix鈥檚 large-scale database infrastructure and data platforms, while leading and mentoring a team of DBREs.
You鈥檒l bring together strong technical expertise and people leadership, defining the vision and standards for database reliability, guiding architectural and system design decisions, and driving operational excellence across our production environments.
In your day-to-day, you will:
- Lead, mentor, and grow a team of DBREs, providing technical guidance and career development
- Define and drive the team鈥檚 roadmap for database reliability, availability, scalability, and cost efficiency
- Own hundreds of production database clusters (MySQL, MongoDB, etc.) at petabyte scale on Cloud platform
- Oversee the design and optimization of data models, schemas, and database access patterns used by core Wix services
- Establish and promote best practices, standards, and methodologies for database design, operations, observability, and incident management
- Collaborate with other Infra, Security, FinOps, and R&D teams to shape Wix鈥檚 databases strategy and long-term technology direction
- Encourage the use of AI and ML-driven tools and analytics for anomaly detection, capacity forecasting, performance optimization and team dev velocity
- Promote automation in database provisioning, configuration, and operations