Staff Platform Database Reliability Engineer

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About the role

  • Staff Database Reliability Engineer leading scalable, reliable database infrastructure. Supporting Index Exchange’s global programmatic advertising platform across cloud and bare-metal environments.

Responsibilities

  • Provide strategic leadership across multiple domains and collaborate with product, operations, infrastructure, and platform engineering teams
  • Foster innovation, continuous improvement, and collaboration within the data systems team
  • Advocate for strategic directions that reduce complexity and technology stack footprint
  • Deploy and operate databases at scale in decentralized cloud, Kubernetes, external, and bare-metal environments
  • Architect relational data structures for performance, scale, and continuity
  • Evaluate emerging technologies and make adoption recommendations
  • Ensure operational processes guarantee database stability and scalability
  • Develop database administration, monitoring, maintenance, testing, and production release best practices
  • Implement automation-first end-to-end delivery procedures
  • Apply security and IAM practices, audits, and traceability
  • Collaborate with developers, system administrators, and data scientists to optimize database performance and functionality
  • Present roadmaps during quarterly planning and align with broader technology objectives
  • Lead problem identification, troubleshooting, resolution, retrospectives, and root-cause analysis to improve reliability and minimize downtime

Requirements

  • 7+ years of proven experience as a Database Reliability Engineer, Database Administrator, general SRE with a slant to data systems, or a similar role
  • In-depth expertise of databases, with a focus on MySQL, MariaDB, Galera, PostgreSQL, Kafka, Aerospike, Redis, StarRocks, Vertica
  • Experience deploying and operating databases at scale in containerized (Kubernetes) and bare metal environments
  • Working knowledge of languages like Python, Bash/Shell, Kotlin, Java and/or Golang
  • Good understanding of automation tools like Ansible, Terraform, and CI/CD tools such as Helm, GitLab workflows, and ArgoCD
  • Good understanding of database change management systems like Liquibase, Flywheel, or Alembic
  • Good understanding of observability tools like Loki, Grafana, Prometheus, etc.
  • Basic understanding of streaming and big data technologies like Kafka, Spark, Flink, Hadoop, Presto/Trino, or Redis
  • Demonstrated leadership, mentoring, and collaboration skills
  • Excellent problem-solving and troubleshooting abilities for globally distributed, low-latency infrastructure
  • Effective communication skills for technical and non-technical audiences

Benefits

  • Comprehensive health, dental, and vision plans for you and your dependents
  • Paid time off, health days, and personal obligation days plus flexible work schedules
  • Competitive retirement matching plans
  • Equity packages
  • Generous parental leave available to birthing, non-birthing, and adoptive parents
  • Annual well-being allowance plus fitness discounts and group wellness activities
  • Commuter benefits and discounts, where available
  • Employee assistance program
  • Mental health first aid program that provides an in-the-moment point of contact and reassurance
  • One day of volunteer time off per year and a donation-matching program
  • Monthly town halls and regular community-led team events
  • Multiple resources and programming to support continuous learning
  • A workplace that supports a diverse, equitable, and inclusive environment

Job type

Full Time

Experience level

Lead

Salary

Not specified

Degree requirement

No Education Requirement

Tech skills

AnsibleCloudGrafanaHadoopJavaKafkaKotlinKubernetesMariaDBMySQLPostgresPrometheusPythonRedisSparkTerraformGo

Location requirements

RemoteCanada

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