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Senior Database Reliability Engineer

🕒 4 days ago
Database Reliability EngineeringSoftware EngineeringInfrastructure EngineeringRelational Databases

📜 Description

  • This is not a traditional DBA role .
  • This role is for an engineer who can combine deep database knowledge with software engineering, infrastructure engineering, and platform thinking.
  • You will help build the systems, libraries, automation, standards, and guardrails that make database usage across Sezzle reliable, secure, scalable, and easy for developers to adopt correctly.
  • As a Senior Database Reliability Engineer, you will be responsible for improving how Sezzle applications connect to, migrate, operate, observe, and scale their databases.
  • You will work across application

🛠️ Requirements

  • Experience building platform capabilities for a microservices environment.
  • Experience with Golang application development and database access patterns.
  • Experience creating database libraries, SDKs, service templates, migration frameworks, or paved-road developer tooling.
  • Experience improving database reliability across many services or teams, not just one application.
  • Experience with fintech, payments, banking, e-commerce, or other high-volume transactional systems.
  • Experience with compliance-sensitive environments such as PCI DSS, SOC 2, or SOX.
  • Experience with database access governance, audit logging, secrets management, encryption, IAM authentication, and least-privilege access models.
  • Experience with large-scale operational automation for provisioning, patching, failover testing, backup validation, access management, or schema review.
  • Experience with distributed systems patterns such as transactional outbox, event-driven architecture, idempotency, queues, eventual consistency, and data consistency tradeoffs.
  • Experience with observability tools such as Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog, CloudWatch, Performance Insights, OpenTelemetry, or New Relic.

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