Senior Database Engineer (DBRE)

Cisco
San Francisco
Workplace: HybridFull timeUSD 165,000 - 241,400 annuallyFunction: Solutions Engineering & Sales EngineeringExperience: 5+ yearsSkills: ["High ownership","Collaboration","Communication","Mentoring","Troubleshooting"]

Build and operate the production database and data systems that power Cisco Meraki’s cloud platform and Dashboard. As a Senior Database Reliability Engineer, you’ll combine database engineering with reliability practices to improve availability, performance, scalability, and observability for relational databases, streaming systems, analytical stores, and low-latency data services. You’ll partner with SRE, application, security, and infrastructure teams to reduce operational toil, manage safe change, and handle production on-call and incident response.

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Senior Database Engineer (DBRE)

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Job Summary

Build and operate the production database and data systems that power Cisco Meraki’s cloud platform and Dashboard. As a Senior Database Reliability Engineer, you’ll combine database engineering with reliability practices to improve availability, performance, scalability, and observability for relational databases, streaming systems, analytical stores, and low-latency data services. You’ll partner with SRE, application, security, and infrastructure teams to reduce operational toil, manage safe change, and handle production on-call and incident response.
Location: San Francisco
Workplace: Hybrid
Employment Type: Full time
Job Function: Solutions Engineering & Sales Engineering
Seniority: Mid level

Key Responsibilities

  • •Plan, administer, maintain, and secure PostgreSQL infrastructure in collaboration with SRE teams to ensure high performance and reliability.
  • •Design, build, and maintain ETL pipelines for PostgreSQL and develop procedures and scripts for data migration.
  • •Perform operational database administration tasks including installation, upgrades, patching, backup/recovery, monitoring, capacity planning, and cloud-based architectural changes.
  • •Support production operations including on-call rotation, incident response, monitoring and alerting, and post-incident reviews.
  • •Partner with SRE, application engineering, security, and infrastructure teams to improve data system availability and performance and guide safe architectural changes.

Pay and Benefits

Salary: USD 165,000 - 241,400 annually
Equity and Bonus:Equity
Perks:Health InsuranceDentalVision401kPaid ParentalPaid HolidaysPaid Leave

Key Requirements

  • •5+ years designing, operating, and troubleshooting PostgreSQL in production environments.
  • •5+ years managing production databases or distributed data systems across application, database, OS, storage, and network layers.
  • •3+ years in Linux systems engineering, including performance tuning and automating infrastructure/database operations with tools such as Terraform, Ansible, Chef, or Puppet.
  • •2+ years using scripting or programming languages such as Python, Bash, Go, Ruby, or Perl for automation and operational tooling.
  • •Experience working in a polyglot production data environment with at least one non-PostgreSQL system such as Kafka/MSK, ClickHouse, Redis, MySQL, Cassandra, or Elasticsearch.
Experience:5+ yearsDatabase reliabilityDistributed data systemsSRECloud platformObservability
Skills:High ownershipCollaborationCommunicationMentoringTroubleshooting
Tech Stack:PostgreSQLETLLinuxTerraformAnsibleChefPuppetPythonBashGoRubyPerlKafkaMSKClickHouseRedisMySQLCassandraElasticsearchKubernetes

Company Brief

Cisco
Global technology company that designs, manufactures, and sells networking hardware, telecommunications equipment, and high-technology services and products for enterprises, service providers, and governments worldwide.
Industry: Networking Equipment
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 Jose, United States
Founded: 1984
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