Boulevard · 4 days ago
Staff Database Reliability Engineer
United States
Full-time
Remote
Lead/Staff
8+ years expBoulevard is a client experience platform for appointment-based self-care businesses, and they are seeking a Staff Database Reliability Engineer to enhance database reliability and scalability. The role involves leading initiatives for database performance optimization, partnering with engineering teams, and fostering a culture of reliability across the organization.
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Responsibilities
Develop a deep understanding of how Boulevard’s systems behave, scale, interact, and fail, and use that insight to identify risks and improvement opportunities
Own and improve database reliability, performance, and scalability; participate in incident response and drive architectural improvements that reduce incident frequency and impact
Partner with engineering teams to design, build, and operate scalable, fault-tolerant, and secure distributed systems that support Boulevard’s growth and customer trust
Build tools, automation, and frameworks that eliminate toil, reduce operational overhead, and establish best practices used across engineering teams
Elevate observability and operational excellence through actionable metrics, alerts, and dashboards that enable faster incident resolution and proactive reliability improvements
Mentor and influence engineers across the organization, helping foster a culture where reliability is a shared responsibility
Qualification
Required
8–10+ years of experience in systems, infrastructure, or backend software engineering, with a strong focus on RDBMS and NoSQL systems
Production experience with managed cloud databases such as AWS Aurora/RDS (PostgreSQL), and deploying/managing infrastructure using infrastructure-as-code tools
Proven experience delivering reliability outcomes using SLOs, SLIs, error budgets, and mature observability practices
Strong background in automation, scripting, and infrastructure-as-code (e.g., Terraform, Python, Go, or similar)
Experience diagnosing and mitigating production incidents in high-availability systems, with a focus on learning and continuous improvement
Excellent communication skills and the ability to influence without authority across engineering teams
Demonstrated ability to set technical standards, mentor engineers, and scale impact through others
Ability to navigate uncertainty, set direction, and iterate toward meaningful outcomes in a fast-moving environment
Preferred
Experience with Elixir, Phoenix, Ruby, or Rails
Hands-on experience identifying and improving database performance
Benefits
401(k) match plus dental, medical, vision, and life insurance.
Flexible vacation day policy.
Fully remote so you can choose where you want to work. You’ll receive a work from home stipend every month.
Family planning resources and specialized support programs.
Equity: get ahead on the ground floor and grow with Boulevard.
Boulevard Bucks Learning and Development program allows employees to explore businesses in the market we serve.
Company
Boulevard
Boulevard provides beauty and wellness businesses with tools for booking, payments, marketing, and client relationship management.
201-500 employees
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Funding
Current Stage
Late StageTotal Funding
$188MKey Investors
JMI EquityPoint72 VenturesIndex Ventures
2025-07-17Series D· $80M
2022-08-09Series C· $70M
2020-11-23Series B· $27M
Leadership Team
Matt Danna
Co-Founder & CEO
Sean Stavropoulos
Co-Founder and CTO
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