Senior Database Reliability Engineer

As a Senior Database Reliability Engineer at Checkr, you will be primarily responsible for managing cloud database and data storage infrastructure, backup policies and processes, data lifecycle management, and performance tuning and troubleshooting across a breadth of database platforms. Beyond this, you will help our software teams maximize their understanding and efficient use of our database systems.

What a typical week may look like at Checkr:

• Design and recommend database architectures that address resiliency, durability, and high availability concerns
• Provision and administer database and database-adjacent cloud resources using Infrastructure as Code
• Maintain and troubleshoot database systems in production, staging, and sandbox environments
• Optimize database performance at the query, schema, and instance levels
• Embrace and extend BCDR and data protection practices across availability zones, accounts, and providers
• Work closely with the Infrastructure team to align on infrastructure best practices
• Implement security best practices for data stores
• Automate common database tasks to reduce toil
• Work closely with the SRE team and improve observability (alerting, metrics, monitoring) of the database schema and infrastructure
• Take part in incident response, diagnosis, and follow-up on system outages or alerts across Checkr’s customer-serving infrastructure

What you bring:

• 5+ years of experience working with relational database concepts, storage systems, and architectures
• Advanced level of experience with Postgres, MySQL, and MongoDB database administration and replication topologies at scale
• Experience working with AWS cloud databases such as RDS, Aurora, DynamoDB, ElasticCache, and MongoDB Atlas
• Solid people skills and ability to guide software engineers through database best practices with regard to security, schema design, and migrations at scale
• Experience working with Infrastructure-as-code tools such as Terraform and Terragrunt
• An automation mindset that strives to reduce manual interventions wherever relevant
• Nice to have: GitLab, GitHub gh-ost, AWS S3, automation tooling knowledge
• An A-player mindset with a strong bias for action: you raise the bar, move with urgency, stay resilient through ambiguity, and take ownership to deliver meaningful outcomes.

What you’ll get

• A fast-paced and collaborative environment
• Learning and development allowance
• Competitive cash and equity compensation, and opportunity for advancement
• 100% medical, dental, and vision coverage
• Up to $25K reimbursement for fertility, adoption, and parental planning services
• Flexible PTO policy
• Monthly wellness stipend

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