Staff Database Reliability Engineer

Location: Denver, Colorado, United States or San Francisco, California, United States; employees are expected to work from the office 3+ days a week. Relocation to a hirify.global hub may be supported.

Base salary or on-target earnings: $195,000–$229,000 USD in San Francisco, CA; $165,000–$194,000 USD in Denver, CO.

Company

hirify.global builds an AI-powered data platform for safe and fair verification decisions used by companies and individuals.

What you will do

• Lead the architecture, high-availability, multi-region, business continuity, and disaster recovery strategy for hirify.global’s multi-cloud database fleet.
• Define the long-term database architecture vision, communicate it to engineering and leadership, and propose strategic projects.
• Provision, scale, and maintain production, staging, and sandbox cloud databases using Terraform and Terragrunt.
• Optimize PostgreSQL or MySQL and MongoDB performance across query, schema, connection, and instance levels.
• Build observability, automated alerting, diagnostics, maintenance workflows, schema migrations, and backup lifecycle automation with Site Reliability Engineering.
• Lead incident diagnosis, resolution, post-incident reviews, and engineer mentoring and development.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
• 10+ years of experience designing, administering, and scaling relational and non-relational database storage architectures in production environments.
• Deep expertise managing and tuning MongoDB and PostgreSQL or MySQL database topologies at high volume and scale.
• Understanding of software engineering fundamentals, including data structures and software design principles, and the ability to apply them to technical challenges.
• Extensive hands-on experience with AWS database and storage ecosystems, including RDS, Aurora, ElastiCache, MongoDB Atlas, and S3.
• Track record of automating cloud infrastructure and database operations using Terraform, Terragrunt, and modern scripting languages.
• Strong technical leadership skills, including guiding engineering teams through database schema design, zero-downtime migrations such as gh-ost, and security compliance standards.
• Bias for action, resilience through ambiguity, ownership, urgency, and a focus on meaningful outcomes.

Culture & Benefits

• Fast-paced, collaborative, office-based environment focused on collaboration, innovation, and connection.
• Learning and development allowance.
• Competitive cash and equity compensation with advancement opportunities.
• 100% medical, dental, and vision coverage.
• Up to $25,000 reimbursement for fertility, adoption, and parental planning services.
• Flexible PTO, monthly wellness stipend, office meals, commuter stipend, and snacks and beverages.