Okta for Developers · 1 month ago
Senior Database Reliability Engineer (DBRE)
San Francisco, CA
Full-time
Onsite
Mid, Senior Level
$152K/yr - $228K/yr
4+ years expOkta is The World’s Identity Company, providing secure access and automation solutions. They are seeking a Senior Database Reliability Engineer (DBRE) to design, operationalize, and optimize the data persistence layer for their mission-critical systems, ensuring performance and reliability across their database environment.
Computer Software
No H1B
U.S. Citizen Only
Responsibilities
Design, implement, and operate highly available PostgreSQL clusters (physical replication, logical replication, sharding/partitioning, failover automation)
Optimize query performance, indexing strategies, schema design, and storage engines
Perform capacity planning, growth forecasting, and workload modeling
Own high-availability strategies including automatic failover, multi-AZ/multi-region setups, and disaster recovery
Develop automation for any and all tasks including but not limited to: provisioning, configuration, backups, failovers, vacuum tuning, and schema management using tools such as Terraform, Ansible, Kubernetes Operators, or custom tooling
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
Conduct root-cause analysis and implement permanent fixes
Partner with software engineers to review SQL, optimize schemas, and ensure efficient use of PostgreSQL features
Provide guidance on database-related design patterns, migrations, version upgrades, and best practices
Qualification
Required
4 plus 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 building automation with Go or Python
Production experience with monitoring tools (Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog, PMM, pg_stat_statements, etc.)
Hands-on experience with cloud environments (AWS or GCP)
Preferred
Experience with PgBouncer, HAProxy, or other connection-pooling/load-balancing layers
Exposure to event streaming (Kafka, Debezium) and change data capture
Experience supporting 24/7 production environments with on-call rotation
Contributions to open-source PostgreSQL ecosystem
Benefits
Health, dental and vision insurance
401(k)
Flexible spending account
Paid leave (including PTO and parental leave)
Company
Okta for Developers
Resources for developers using Okta’s Identity services: Okta's Customer Identity Cloud (aka Auth0 by Okta or CIC) and Workforce Identity Cloud (WIC).
1001-5000 employees
Funding
Current Stage
Late StageCompany data provided by crunchbase