Sr Database Administrator - Production Reliability

Database EngineerMust have: • 8+ years of experience in database engineering, administration, and production support. • Hands-on expertise in Oracle, MongoDB, and PostgreSQL, including high availability, replication, clustering, patching, and upgrades. • Strong experience in performance tuning, query optimization, indexing, capacity planning, backup, PITR, and disaster recovery. • Ability to monitor and troubleshoot complex production issues, perform root-cause analysis, and support on-call operations. • Working knowledge of Linux/Unix and scripting or automation using Python, Shell, or equivalent tools. Good to have • Experience with AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud managed database services. • Knowledge of infrastructure as code, CI/CD, and database observability tools such as Prometheus, Grafana, Splunk, or ELK/OpenSearch. • Understanding ITIL processes and experience preparing runbooks, operational dashboards, and DR test reports. • Relevant database, cloud, or site reliability engineering certifications. Responsibility/Expectation • Administer and maintain highly available Oracle, MongoDB, and PostgreSQL production environments. • Perform database performance tuning, query optimization, indexing, and capacity planning. • Monitor database health, replication, storage, connections, locks, and resource consumption, and resolve issues proactively. • Lead database incident triage, service restoration, root-cause analysis, and preventive actions. • Automate provisioning, monitoring, maintenance, backup validation, recovery testing, and operational reporting. • Partner with application and platform teams on schema design, migrations, releases, security, and non-functional requirements. • Maintain database documentation, runbooks, DR evidence, and operational status updates for stakeholders. • Design and manage robust backup, point-in-time recovery (PITR), failover and DR strategies to guarantee strict Recovery Point Objective (RPO) and Recovery Time Objective (RTO) targets Location: Austin, TX/ Sunnyvale, CA Salary Range: $100,000 - $135,000 a year