about 17 hours ago
Remote, WorldwideSenior / Staff+
Responsibilities
- Own and improve the reliability, performance, security, and scalability of production database systems.
- Lead database monitoring, alerting, capacity planning, backup, recovery, replication, and disaster recovery practices.
- Identify, diagnose, and resolve complex database performance and availability issues.
- Partner with engineering teams on schema design, indexing strategies, query optimization, and safe database change management.
- Lead technical planning for database migrations, upgrades, scaling strategies, and operational improvements.
- Improve infrastructure-as-code, automation, observability, and repeatability across database operations.
- Define and maintain database runbooks, operational standards, and production readiness criteria.
- Participate in and lead database-related incident response, post-incident reviews, and remediation planning.
- Collaborate with security, compliance, and delivery teams to meet customer, regulatory, and vetting requirements.
- Provide technical guidance and mentorship to engineers, DBAs, and operational teams.
- Represent database reliability concerns in architecture reviews, roadmap planning, and customer-readiness discussions.
- Help build the operational foundation required to support UK police customers and future UK public safety partners.
Requirements
- Significant professional experience administering MySQL or similar relational databases in production environments.
- Deep experience operating cloud-hosted database platforms, preferably AWS RDS, Aurora, or Azure database services.
- Strong expertise in database performance tuning, query optimization, replication, backup, recovery, and high availability.
- Experience designing and operating database infrastructure for complex cloud-based software applications.
- Experience with infrastructure as code, automation, observability, and production operations.
- Strong understanding of cloud infrastructure, networking, security, access controls, and operational risk.
- Ability to influence engineering teams and guide database design decisions across services.
- Strong incident management skills and sound judgment during high-pressure production events.
- Clear written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to explain complex technical tradeoffs to technical and non-technical audiences.
- Demonstrated ability to mentor teammates and improve team-wide technical practices.
- Eligibility and willingness to complete UK police vetting requirements for customer-facing public safety work.
Benefits
- Total compensation is market competitive and may include base salary, bonus opportunity, equity, and a comprehensive benefits package.