BILL · 23 hours ago
Senior Database Reliability Engineer
San Jose, CA
Full-time
Hybrid
Senior Level
$149K/yr - $178K/yr
5+ years expBILL is a company focused on empowering businesses through innovative financial tools. They are seeking a Senior Database Reliability Engineer to join their Core Infrastructure Team, responsible for managing infrastructure and databases, ensuring robust data platforms, and collaborating across teams to enhance data consistency and performance.
AppsBillingFinancial ServicesFinTechSaaS
Responsibilities
Architecting, building, scaling, and supporting high-throughput data platforms that underpin mission-critical business applications
Collaborating with engineering, product, and infrastructure teams to design and build resilient, fault-tolerant, real-time data pipelines
Ensuring exceptional data consistency and high performance at the database level
Qualification
Required
5+ years of hands-on experience with enterprise RDBMS (PostgreSQL/Aurora/MySQL/Oracle), focusing on optimization, security, and access control
3+ years managing databases & CDC Streaming services on AWS
Experience with Apache/Confluent Kafka (brokers, partitions, offsets, Schema Registry, Connect), including running clusters at scale with exactly-once or at-least-once delivery
Familiarity with Flink pipelines (stateful streaming, checkpointing, windows, savepoints)
Strong experience designing fault-tolerant data ingestion and streaming architectures
Strong experience with replication tools like GoldenGate / Debezium
Expertise in IaC with Terraform and GitLab, applying an SDLC approach to infrastructure
Strong SQL skills and experience in query optimization
Strong knowledge of performance tuning, execution plans, indexing, partitioning, and concurrency
Experience implementing High Availability (HA), replication, Change Data Capture (CDC), disaster recovery, and multi-region database deployments
Proficiency in Python and other programming languages
Ability to troubleshoot complex platform issues across the database, streaming, and infrastructure layers
Experience with monitoring and alerting tools like DataDog, Splunk, and CloudWatch for real-time performance monitoring and issue resolution
Familiarity with containers and cloud platforms (Kubernetes/ECS/AWS)
Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience
Strong communication skills
Automation mindset
Ownership of end-to-end systems
Benefits
Medical, dental, vision, life and disability insurance
401(k) retirement plan
Flexible spending & health savings account
Paid holidays
Paid time off
100% paid employee health, dental, and vision plans (choose HMO, PPO, or HDHP)
HSA & FSA accounts
Life Insurance, Long & Short-term disability coverage
Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
11+ Observed holidays and wellness days and flexible time off
Employee Stock Purchase Program with employee discounts
Wellness & Fitness initiatives
Employee recognition and referral programs
And much more
Company
BILL
BILL is a developer of financial automation software for small and midsize businesses (SMBs).
1001-5000 employees
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Funding
Current Stage
Public CompanyTotal Funding
$1.48BKey Investors
Barington Capital GroupStarboard ValueFranklin Templeton
2025-12-04Post Ipo Equity
2025-09-04Post Ipo Equity
2024-12-04Post Ipo Debt· $1.2B
Leadership Team
René Lacerte
CEO and Founder
Ken Moss
Chief Technology Officer
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