Senior Database Reliability Engineer (DBRE)

Okta
San Francisco
Workplace: HybridFull timeUSD 160,000 - 220,000 annuallyFunction: Solutions Engineering & Sales EngineeringExperience: 4+ yearsSkills: ["Leadership","Collaboration","Problem-solving","Ownership","Communication"]

Design, build, and operate highly available PostgreSQL clusters at scale; optimize performance, automate provisioning and recovery, and lead incident response in a cross-functional, hybrid-San Francisco environment. Collaborate with SRE, Platform, and Engineering to ensure reliability and efficiency of data persistence across global systems.

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Senior Database Reliability Engineer (DBRE)

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Job Summary

Design, build, and operate highly available PostgreSQL clusters at scale; optimize performance, automate provisioning and recovery, and lead incident response in a cross-functional, hybrid-San Francisco environment. Collaborate with SRE, Platform, and Engineering to ensure reliability and efficiency of data persistence across global systems.
Location: San Francisco
Workplace: Hybrid
Employment Type: Full time
Job Function: Solutions Engineering & Sales Engineering
Seniority: Sr. Manager level

Key Responsibilities

  • •Design, implement, and operate highly available PostgreSQL clusters (physical replication, logical replication, sharding/partitioning, failover automation).
  • •Develop automation for provisioning, configuration, backups, failovers, vacuum tuning, and schema management using tools such as Terraform, Ansible, Kubernetes Operators, or custom tooling, and build monitoring, alerting, and self-healing systems for PostgreSQL and MySQL.
  • •Lead response during database incidents—performance regressions, replication lag, deadlocks, bloat issues, storage failures, etc., and conduct root-cause analysis with permanent fixes.
  • •Partner with software engineers to review SQL, optimize schemas, and ensure efficient use of PostgreSQL features, providing guidance on design patterns, migrations, and upgrades.
  • •Coordinate cross-functional collaboration to ensure reliability, performance, and operational excellence across data-layer systems.

Pay and Benefits

Salary: USD 160,000 - 220,000 annually
Equity and Bonus:Equity
Perks:Health InsuranceDentalVision401kPaid LeaveEquityAnnual Bonus

Key Requirements

  • •4+ years of hands-on PostgreSQL experience in high-volume, distributed, or large-scale production environments
  • •Strong knowledge of PostgreSQL internals (WAL, MVCC, bloat/vacuum tuning, query planner, indexing, logical replication)
  • •Production experience with MySQL (InnoDB internals, replication, performance tuning)
  • •Advanced SQL and strong understanding of schema design and query optimization
  • •Experience with Linux systems, networking fundamentals, and systems troubleshooting
Experience:4+ yearsSaaSIdentity
Skills:LeadershipCollaborationProblem-solvingOwnershipCommunication
Languages:English
Tech Stack:PostgreSQLMySQLTerraformAnsibleKubernetesGoPythonAWSGCPPrometheusGrafanaPg_stat_statementsHAProxyKafka

Eligibility

Security Clearance:U.S. Person status

Company Brief

Okta
Provides identity and access management cloud solutions that help organizations secure and manage user authentication, single sign-on, multi-factor authentication, and lifecycle management across applications and devices.
Industry: Cybersecurity
Company Size: Enterprise (1,001+ employees)
Revenue: USD 1B+
Growth: Public Company
Valuation: Public Company (Market Cap in USD)
Funding: IPO / Publicly Listed
Headquarters: San Francisco, United States
Founded: 2009
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