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Okta

Senior Database Reliability Engineer (DBRE) ; postgreSQL

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2 days ago
New York, NY, USA
Senior / Mid Level
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Base Salary

$136k - $228k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Design, implement, and operate highly available PostgreSQL clusters.
  • Optimize query performance, indexing strategies, and schema design.
  • Perform capacity planning and workload modeling.
  • Own high-availability strategies and disaster recovery.
  • Develop automation for provisioning, configuration, and backups.
  • Build monitoring and self-healing systems for databases.
  • Lead response during database incidents and conduct root-cause analysis.
  • Partner with software engineers to optimize SQL and database design.

Requirements

  • 4+ years of hands-on PostgreSQL experience in high-volume environments.
  • Strong knowledge of PostgreSQL internals and performance tuning.
  • Production experience with MySQL and its internals.
  • Advanced SQL skills and understanding of schema design.
  • Experience with Linux systems and networking fundamentals.
  • Experience building automation with Go or Python.
  • Production experience with monitoring tools like Prometheus or Grafana.
  • Hands-on experience with cloud environments such as AWS or GCP.

Tech Stack

AnsibleApache KafkaAWSDatadogGoGoogle Cloud PlatformGrafanaKubernetesMySQLPostgreSQLPrometheusPythonTerraform

Categories

BackendData EngineeringDevOps