Senior Database Reliability Engineer (DBRE)

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<p data-renderer-start-pos="1"><strong data-renderer-mark="true">About us:</strong></p> <p data-renderer-start-pos="12">Branch 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.</p> <p data-renderer-start-pos="314">Our 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. </p> <p data-renderer-start-pos="576">We 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.</p> <p data-renderer-start-pos="847">Come join our team as we develop new ways to improve the lives of working Americans.</p> <p data-renderer-start-pos="1"><strong data-renderer-mark="true">About the role:</strong></p> <p>This 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.</p> <p><strong>Responsibilities include, but are not limited to</strong></p> <ul> <li>Lead, and take ownership of our core database systems to ensure high levels of performance, availability, and security</li> <li>Communicate critical data changes to the data warehousing team</li> <li>Work alongside both engineering teams and data teams to shepherd schema changes from design to deployment to ensure architectural and downstream compatibility</li> <li>Build and maintain automated test and deployment data pipelines, including production level data testing at scale, with SRE and DevOps teams</li> <li>Proactively work on detecting weak areas and incorporate into automated monitoring and production alerting with our Cloud Ops teams</li> <li>Document and automate processes to eliminate time spent on recurring tasks</li> <li>Evaluate new database features (and products if needed) to meet scalability and global uptime requirements</li> <li>Own database backup and recovery, and help establish disaster recovery targets and practices as the systems scale</li> <li>Support, debug, and perform RCA on production database issues, and participate in incident response as needed</li> </ul> <p><strong>Qualifications: </strong></p> <ul> <li>5+ years of experience managing MySQL/CloudSQL at scale</li> <li>Expert at SQL and MySQL specifics including schema design</li> <li>Deep knowledge of MySQL internals</li> <li>Solid understanding of MySQL replication, SQL tuning, and database optimization while minimizing downtime</li> <li>Experience operating Google Cloud Spanner at scale, including schema design and query optimization</li> <li>BS in Computer Science or equivalent program</li> <li>Bonus points for:</li> <ul> <li>Payments experience (or related industry)</li> <li>Experience with the GCP toolset</li> <li>Experience with infrastructure as code</li> <li>Experience with Redis</li> <li>Experience with global, multi-region deployments including sharding</li> </ul> </ul> <p data-renderer-start-pos="1033"><strong data-renderer-mark="true">Compensation:</strong></p> <p data-renderer-start-pos="1048">The base salary range for this role is <span class="fabric-background-color-mark" data-renderer-mark="true" data-background-custom-color="#fedec8">$175-185k. </span>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. </p> <p data-renderer-start-pos="1365"><strong data-renderer-mark="true">Location:</strong></p> <p data-renderer-start-pos="1376">This position is classified as REMOTE<strong data-renderer-mark="true"> </strong>within the United States of America.</p> <p data-renderer-start-pos="1452"><em data-renderer-mark="true">We are unable to hire candidates located outside of the domestic U.S.</em></p> <p data-renderer-start-pos="1523"><strong data-renderer-mark="true">Benefits: </strong></p> <ul> <li data-renderer-start-pos="1537">Market-leading medical, dental, and vision insurance </li> <li data-renderer-start-pos="1594">Stock options</li> <li data-renderer-start-pos="1611">Free Premium-Tier Origin Financial Wellness subscription</li> <li data-renderer-start-pos="1671">Monthly home-office stipend</li> <li data-renderer-start-pos="1702">401k (TransAmerica)</li> <li data-renderer-start-pos="1725">12-weeks paid parental leave for birthing and…