Senior Database Reliability Engineer
PLACE Corporate Careers2 hours ago
Remote, United StatesSenior
Base Salary
$130k - $150k/yr
Responsibilities
- Own availability, recoverability, and performance for the SQL Server estate.
- Inventory SQL Server instances, editions, licensing, sizes, growth rates, dependencies, schedules, and consumers.
- Validate backup strategies, perform scheduled test restores, and report Recovery Point and Recovery Time Objective results.
- Manage high availability, failover exercises, log shipping, and transactional replication.
- Lead database-layer incident response, mitigation, communications, post-incident reviews, and corrective actions.
- Own disaster recovery and contingency planning, including annual DR exercises.
- Administer and extend SSIS packages and SSRS reports, and develop SSIS, T-SQL, and stored procedures.
- Automate provisioning, patching, maintenance, integrity checks, backup verification, and environment refreshes.
- Build telemetry and alerting for data quality, job durations, wait statistics, blocking, deadlocks, storage growth, and cost.
- Create operational runbooks, manage database-layer access and encryption controls, and maintain patching currency.
- Serve as the technical authority for the SQL Server estate, participate in design reviews, and flag risks early.
- Mentor engineers and analysts, cross-train a colleague, and participate in a shared 24x7 on-call rotation.
Requirements
- 10+ years of production database engineering experience, including operational ownership of a 24x7 environment.
- Deep SQL Server 2016+ experience with Always On availability groups, failover clustering, transactional replication, advanced T-SQL, execution plans, and indexing strategy.
- Experience running SQL Server in AWS using RDS, RDS Custom, or EC2, including at least one on-premises-to-cloud migration.
- Experience managing SQL Agent jobs and automating database operations with PowerShell and/or Python.
- Experience maintaining legacy SSIS packages and SSRS reports and operating at multi-terabyte scale.
- Experience with backup and recovery validation, performance tuning, disaster recovery, incident response, observability, and database access and encryption controls.
- Strong proactive communication and ability to work with engineering, analytics, finance, leadership, and other stakeholders.
- Preferred experience migrating or retiring legacy Microsoft BI assets into a modern cloud data platform.
- Preferred familiarity with AWS DMS, Snowflake, dbt, MySQL, PostgreSQL, Aurora, Azure SQL, post-acquisition integration, or property technology, mortgage technology, or fintech.
Benefits
- Flexible work-from-home, office, or on-the-move arrangement.
- PTO as needed and comprehensive insurance coverage.
- 401(k) match.
- Stock option grants and a stock purchase plan.
- Equity included alongside base compensation.
Tech Stack
Categories
BackendSite Reliability
About PLACE Corporate Careers
PLACE builds an end-to-end technology and business services platform for residential real estate teams, supporting both client transactions and back-office operations. It offers tools and services spanning consumer workflows (buying, selling, and homeownership) and team needs such as accounting, HR, marketing, and training, regardless of brokerage. Founded in 2020 and headquartered in Bellingham, Washington, the company partners with teams across the United States and Canada.