{"schemaVersion":"jobsearcher.job.v1","id":"be6cf48863509d4fd5bb4fff","url":"https://jobsearcher.com/jobs/be6cf48863509d4fd5bb4fff","canonicalUrl":"https://jobsearcher.com/jobs/be6cf48863509d4fd5bb4fff","title":"Senior Database Reliability Engineer (DBRE)","description":"About us:\nBranch is on a mission to empower workers with financial freedom. We do this by helping companies accelerate payments and providing working Americans with accessible, free financial services. We’re committed to building and delivering more inclusive, transparent, and frictionless financial products.\nOur goal of empowerment extends to our own employees, too. Have a great idea? Share it today and it might just get implemented tomorrow. As a member of our team, your voice and creativity matter—and they can directly impact our products, company, and culture. \nWe not only focus on attracting great talent from across the country, but also on building teams that help that talent thrive. That means valuing a diversity of opinions and working styles, while creating a shared belief in innovation, initiative, and winning together.\nCome join our team as we develop new ways to improve the lives of working Americans.\nAbout the role:\nThis Senior Database Reliability Engineer is responsible for supporting all production database systems so that they run smoothly. We run MySQL 8.4 on Google Cloud Platform’s CloudSQL, alongside Google Cloud Spanner for globally distributed workloads.\nResponsibilities include, but are not limited to\n\nLead, and take ownership of our core database systems to ensure high levels of performance, availability, and security\nCommunicate critical data changes to the data warehousing team\nWork alongside both engineering teams and data teams to shepherd schema changes from design to deployment to ensure architectural and downstream compatibility\nBuild and maintain automated test and deployment data pipelines, including production level data testing at scale, with SRE and DevOps teams\nProactively work on detecting weak areas and incorporate into automated monitoring and production alerting with our Cloud Ops teams\nDocument and automate processes to eliminate time spent on recurring tasks\nEvaluate new database features (and products if needed) to meet scalability and global uptime requirements\nOwn database backup and recovery, and help establish disaster recovery targets and practices as the systems scale\nSupport, debug, and perform RCA on production database issues, and participate in incident response as needed\n\nQualifications: \n\n5+ years of experience managing MySQL/CloudSQL at scale\nExpert at SQL and MySQL specifics including schema design\nDeep knowledge of MySQL internals\nSolid understanding of MySQL replication, SQL tuning, and database optimization while minimizing downtime\nExperience operating Google Cloud Spanner at scale, including schema design and query optimization\nBS in Computer Science or equivalent program\nBonus points for:\n\nPayments experience (or related industry)\nExperience with the GCP toolset\nExperience with infrastructure as code\nExperience with Redis\nExperience with global, multi-region deployments including sharding\n\nCompensation:\nThe base salary range for this role is $175-185k. The salary range displayed reflects an average base salary range for the position across all the U.S. The base salary offered to an applicant could be higher or lower based on each applicant's specific skill set, depth of experience, relevant education or training, etc. \nLocation:\nThis position is classified as REMOTEwithin the United States of America.\nWe are unable to hire candidates located outside of the domestic U.S.\nBenefits: \n\nMarket-leading medical, dental, and vision insurance \nStock options\nFree Premium-Tier Origin Financial Wellness subscription\nMonthly home-office stipend\n401k (TransAmerica)\n12-weeks paid parental leave for birthing and non-birthing parents\nFlexible time off + sick and safe time\n11 paid company holidays\nBranch@Branch Same Day Pay Option\n\nIdentity Verification As part of our application process, you'll receive a separate email from Greenhouse shortly containing a unique identity verification link. This step, powered by Persona, helps us confirm applicant identities and keep our hiring process secure for everyone. \nUpon identity verification, all biometric data is deleted. If you need support completing this application, please reach out to Careers@branchapp.com\nWorking at Branch\nA remote-first company with employees located throughout the U.S., Branch emphasizes transparency, accountability, and trust to create a collaborative environment where our product, engineering, marketing, customer support, customer success, and sales teams can all thrive together.  Learn more about what we do in this video!\nOur collaborative spirit has helped us become an award-winning FinTech company, with Branch’s innovation and workplace recognized across industries. 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