Database Reliability Engineer

2 weeks ago


San Francisco, California, United States TBWA\Chiat\Day Full time
About Checkr

Checkr is a leading provider of background check services, helping businesses build trust with their customers and employees. Our mission is to provide fast, fair, and accurate background checks that empower businesses to make informed hiring decisions.

Job Description

We are seeking a highly skilled Database Reliability Engineer to join our team. As a Database Reliability Engineer, you will be responsible for designing, implementing, and maintaining our cloud database infrastructure to ensure high availability, scalability, and performance.

Key Responsibilities:
  • Design and implement database architectures that address resiliency, durability, and high availability concerns
  • Provision and administer database and database-adjacent cloud resources using Infrastructure as Code
  • Maintain and troubleshoot database systems in production, staging, and sandbox environments
  • Review and occasionally assist with database schema migrations
  • Optimize database performance at query, schema, and instance levels
  • Embrace and extend BCDR and data protection practices across availability zones, regions, accounts, and providers
  • Work closely with the CloudOps team to align on infrastructure best practices
  • Work with the larger Delivery Platform team to build out our internal developer platform
  • Implement security best practices for data stores
  • Automate common database tasks to reduce toil
  • Work closely with SRE team and improve observability (alerting, metrics, monitoring) of database schema and infrastructure
  • Take part in incident response, diagnosis and follow-up on system outages or alerts across Checkr's customer-serving infrastructure
Requirements:
  • 2+ years of experience working with relational database concepts, storage systems and architectures
  • Experience with Postgres, MySQL, SQL Server, and Mongo database administration and replication topologies at scale
  • Experience working with AWS cloud databases such as RDS, Aurora, OpenSearch, ElasticCache, MongoDB Atlas
  • Solid people skills and ability to guide software engineers through database best practices with regards to security, schema design, and migrations at scale
  • Experience working with Infrastructure-as-code tools such as Terraform and Terragrunt
  • An automation mindset that strives to reduce manual interventions wherever relevant
What We Offer:
  • A fast-paced and collaborative environment
  • Learning and development allowance
  • Competitive compensation and opportunity for advancement
  • 100% medical, dental, and vision coverage
  • Up to 25K reimbursement for fertility, adoption, and parental planning services
  • Flexible PTO policy
  • Monthly wellness stipend, home office stipend

We are an equal opportunity employer and welcome applications from diverse candidates. We are committed to creating an inclusive work environment that values diversity, equity, and inclusion.



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