Senior Database Reliability Engineer II

Leads database architecture, performance, reliability, and developer-tooling initiatives for high-volume trading applications. Requires 8+ years of software engineering experience, expert MySQL skills, backend development expertise, and strong knowledge of distributed systems and database operations.

About the job

Responsibilities

Design and evolve MySQL schemas for high-volume transactional workloads.
Improve data-platform architecture through online schema changes, low-downtime migrations, blue/green deployments, and scalability initiatives.
Analyze and optimize SQL queries, indexes, and execution plans.
Develop production-quality software, persistence-layer improvements, developer tooling, reusable libraries, frameworks, and data-platform capabilities.
Design scalable data models balancing performance, maintainability, and long-term growth.
Lead database performance-tuning and modernization initiatives.
Design safe, repeatable database migration strategies for continuous delivery.
Investigate and resolve production issues involving application performance, database behavior, locking, concurrency, and data integrity.
Establish standards for schema design, indexing, SQL development, migrations, and data-access patterns.
Partner with Platform Engineering on monitoring, backups, disaster recovery, and operational resilience.
Use Google Cloud services to improve reliability, scalability, and observability.
Mentor engineers and lead technical design discussions and architecture reviews.
Evaluate technologies and advise on database architecture, application performance, and data-platform practices.

Requirements

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
8+ years of professional software engineering experience.
Strong backend development experience with Java, C#, Go, Python, Kotlin, Scala, or similar languages.
Expert-level MySQL experience in large-scale production environments.
Deep understanding of SQL optimization, query execution plans, indexing, transactions, isolation levels, locking, concurrency, schema design, normalization, replication, and high availability.
Experience designing scalable schemas for high-volume transactional applications.
Experience troubleshooting complex application and database performance issues.
Experience implementing database migrations for continuous delivery.
Strong understanding of software architecture, distributed systems, and engineering best practices.
Experience leading technical initiatives and influencing architecture across engineering teams.
Strong collaboration and communication skills.
Interest in improving developer productivity through automation, tooling, testing frameworks, benchmarking, and engineering practices.

Nice-to-Haves

Google Cloud Platform and Cloud SQL for MySQL experience.
Experience with Google Cloud Monitoring, Cloud Logging, Pub/Sub, Cloud Storage, Secret Manager, Cloud Build, or Cloud Deploy.
Experience with financial services, trading platforms, or high-throughput transactional systems.
Startup or high-growth engineering experience involving application development and database performance.
Experience designing highly available, fault-tolerant distributed systems.
Observability, performance monitoring, and database telemetry experience.
Experience using AI/ML tools to improve software development, operational efficiency, or engineering productivity.

Compensation

Salary: $130,000–$180,000 USD annually.
Annual target bonus: 10%.

Skills

MySQL, Postgres, SQL, Java, C#, Go, Python, Kotlin, Scala, GCP, Cloud Sql, Distributed Systems, Database Migrations, Database Performance Tuning, Observability