Database Reliability Engineer

TL;DR

Database Reliability Engineer: Design, implement, and maintain highly available database architectures to support business growth across multiple countries with an accent on performance tuning, capacity planning, and disaster recovery procedures. Focus on developing automation tools and internal platforms using Go/Python to streamline database operations and minimize human errors.

Location: Remote (Europe, LATAM)

Company

Sporty is a remote first company in pursuit of sustainability.

What you will do

• Design, implement, and maintain highly available database architectures to support business growth across multiple countries.
• Improve existing database infrastructure, including performance tuning, capacity planning, and backup/recovery strategies.
• Develop automation tools and internal platforms using Go/Python to streamline database operations and minimize human errors.
• Monitor database health and performance metrics, establish alerting mechanisms based on SLO burn rates, and proactively identify potential issues.
• Take ownership and responsibility for database operations including schema changes, data migrations, and production deployments.
• Collaborate with development teams to provide database design consultation, query optimization, and troubleshooting support.

Requirements

• 4+ years experience tackling and managing advanced MySQL and MongoDB problems.
• A self-driven Database Reliability Engineer with proven experience in managing large-scale database systems in production environments.
• Have a deep understanding of database architecture, performance optimisation, high availability solutions, and database security best practices.
• Following the latest industry trends in database technologies and are passionate about building reliable, scalable data infrastructure.
• Have strong automation mindset and programming skills to build tools that improve database operations and reliability.
• Understand SLI/SLO/SLA concepts and have experience implementing reliability engineering practices.

Culture & Benefits

• A competitive salary + individual performance based bonuses every quarter.
• 28 days paid annual leave.
• Our core working hours are 10am-3pm in your local time zone with flexibility outside of this.
• Referral bonuses & flash bonuses.
• Top of the line equipment.
• Annual company retreats to provide great internal networking opportunities.

Hiring process

• Remote video screening with our Talent Acquisition Team.
• Online assessment via Hackerrank.
• Remote video interview with Team Members (60 Mins).