Sr Database Administrator - Production Reliability

Location

: Sunnyvale, CA

Experience

: 8 - 10 Years

Apply By

: 7th December 2026

Job Description

Must Have:

• 8+ years of experience in database engineering, administration, and production support.
  
• Hands-on expertise in Oracle, MongoDB, and PostgreSQL, including high availability, replication,
  clustering, patching, and upgrades.
  
• Strong experience in performance tuning, query optimization, indexing, capacity planning, backup,
  PITR, and disaster recovery.
  
• Ability to monitor and troubleshoot complex production issues, perform root-cause analysis, and
  support on-call operations.
  
• Working knowledge of Linux/Unix and scripting or automation using Python, Shell, or equivalent
  tools.
  Good To Have
  
• Experience with AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud managed database services.
  
• Knowledge of infrastructure as code, CI/CD, and database observability tools such as
  Prometheus, Grafana, Splunk, or ELK/OpenSearch.
  
• Understanding ITIL processes and experience preparing runbooks, operational dashboards, and
  DR test reports.
  
• Relevant database, cloud, or site reliability engineering certifications.
  Responsibility / Expectation
  
• Administer and maintain highly available Oracle, MongoDB, and PostgreSQL production
  environments.
  
• Perform database performance tuning, query optimization, indexing, and capacity planning.
  
• Monitor database health, replication, storage, connections, locks, and resource consumption, and
  resolve issues proactively.
  
• Lead database incident triage, service restoration, root-cause analysis, and preventive actions.
  
• Automate provisioning, monitoring, maintenance, backup validation, recovery testing, and
  operational reporting.
  
• Partner with application and platform teams on schema design, migrations, releases, security, and
  non-functional requirements.
  
• Maintain database documentation, runbooks, DR evidence, and operational status updates for
  stakeholders.
  
• Design and manage robust backup, point-in-time recovery (PITR), failover and DR strategies to
  guarantee strict Recovery Point Objective (RPO) and Recovery Time Objective (RTO) targets
  

Location:

Austin, TX/ Sunnyvale, CA

Salary Range:

$100,000 - $135,000 a year

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Location

Sunnyvale, CA

Function

TECHNOLOGY

Role

Engineer

ID

435335

Skills

Oracle | PostgreSQL | MongoDB

Salary Range

$100,000 - $135,000