Senior Database Reliability Engineer (DBRE)

TL;DR

Senior Database Reliability Engineer (DBRE) (PostgreSQL/MySQL): Design, operationalize, and optimize large-scale data persistence layers for mission-critical systems with an accent on high availability, performance, and automation. Focus on implementing resilient PostgreSQL clusters, incident response, root-cause analysis, and cross-functional collaboration with engineering teams.

Location: Hybrid in San Francisco Bay Area, CA (requires in-person onboarding and travel to SF or Chicago office first week; U.S. Person status required for federal access). Open to candidates in California, Colorado, Illinois, New York, Washington.

Salary: $160,000—$220,000 USD (San Francisco Bay Area); $143,000—$196,000 USD (other specified US locations).

Company

hirify.global builds trusted infrastructure to secure identities, enabling organizations to safely embrace AI.

What you will do

• Design and operate highly available PostgreSQL clusters with physical/logical replication, sharding, failover automation, multi-AZ/region setups, and disaster recovery.
• Optimize query performance, indexing, schema design, storage engines, capacity planning, and workload modeling.
• Develop automation for provisioning, backups, failovers, vacuum tuning, schema management using Terraform, Ansible, Kubernetes Operators.
• Build monitoring, alerting, self-healing systems for PostgreSQL and MySQL.
• Lead incident response for performance issues, replication lag, deadlocks; conduct root-cause analysis and fixes.
• Collaborate with engineers on SQL reviews, schema optimization, design patterns, migrations, upgrades.

Requirements

• 4+ years hands-on PostgreSQL in high-volume, distributed production environments.
• Deep PostgreSQL internals (WAL, MVCC, vacuum tuning, query planner, indexing, logical replication).
• Production MySQL experience (InnoDB, replication, tuning).
• Advanced SQL, schema design, query optimization.
• Linux, networking, troubleshooting; automation with Go/Python.
• Monitoring tools (Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog); cloud (AWS/GCP).

Nice to have

• PgBouncer, HAProxy, connection pooling.
• Event streaming (Kafka, Debezium), CDC.
• 24/7 on-call support.
• Open-source PostgreSQL contributions.

Culture & Benefits

• Equity, bonus, comprehensive health/dental/vision insurance, 401(k), FSA, PTO, parental leave.
• In-person onboarding for connection and impact from day one.
• Global community across 20+ offices, focus on innovation, well-being, social impact, talent development.
• Flexible spending, paid leave per policies.