Senior Database Reliability Engineer

Okta Inc

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Work type
On-site
Location
San Francisco, CA
Salary
$160,000–$220,000 / yr
Posted
59 days ago
Nearby
99+ roles within 25 mi

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This role $190k
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This role pays more than 57% of similar roles. Most pay $135,000–$213,375 — the shaded band above. At the midpoint, this role pays about $190k versus about $174k for comparable roles.

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About Okta Inc

Okta, Inc. is an American identity and access management company based in San Francisco. It provides cloud software that helps companies manage and secure user authentication into applications, and for developers to build identity controls into applications, websites, web services, and devices.[

Okta Inc currently has 155 open roles on FindRole.

Listed pay typically runs $184,000–$253,000 across 155 roles with salary data.

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TL;DR · Senior Database Reliability Engineer

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As a Senior Database Reliability Engineer (DBRE) at this company, you will join the Engineering team to design and optimize PostgreSQL clusters for mission-critical systems, ensuring high availability through automation and tooling. Day-to-day responsibilities include implementing failover strategies, optimizing query performance, and building monitoring systems using tools like Terraform and Kubernetes Operators. You will collaborate with SRE and Platform teams to maintain operational excellence and lead incident response during database issues. The role requires 4+ years of PostgreSQL experience in large-scale environments, along with strong knowledge of PostgreSQL internals and production MySQL expertise. Advanced SQL skills, Linux system understanding, and automation experience with Go or Python are essential. Preferred qualifications include exposure to event streaming and change data capture, as well as contributions to the open-source PostgreSQL ecosystem.

Skills

PostgreSQL MySQL Terraform Ansible Kubernetes Prometheus Grafana Go Python Linux AWS GCP PgBouncer HAProxy Kafka Debezium

What you'll do

  • Design and implement highly available PostgreSQL clusters with physical replication, logical replication, sharding/partitioning.
  • Optimize query performance, indexing strategies, schema design for PostgreSQL and MySQL.
  • Develop automation tools using Terraform, Ansible, Kubernetes Operators for database tasks.
  • Lead incident response during database performance issues and conduct root cause analysis.
  • Build monitoring and alerting systems to ensure operational excellence of database environments.

What we're looking for

  • 4+ years of hands-on PostgreSQL experience in high-volume production environments.
  • Deep knowledge of PostgreSQL internals including WAL, MVCC, and query planner.
  • Production experience with MySQL, focusing on InnoDB internals and replication.
  • Advanced SQL skills and expertise in schema design and query optimization.
  • Experience building automation tools using Go or Python for database tasks.
  • Hands-on work with monitoring tools like Prometheus, Grafana, and pg\_stat\_statements.
  • Practical knowledge of cloud environments such as AWS or GCP.

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