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Manager, Data services (Database Reliability Engineering)

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At a Glance

Location
New York, United States
Work Regime
onsite
Employment
Full time
Experience
8+ years
Compensation
is position in Seattle, WA is $148,700 to $199,400 per year and in New York, NY
Posted
2026-03-18

Key Requirements

Required Skills

AWSAzureCI/CDJavaKubernetesLinuxMySQLOraclePostgreSQLPythonRubyTerraform

Domain Knowledge

  • Automation
  • Education
  • Engineering
  • Finance
  • Medical

Requirements

8+ years of hands-on experience with major RDBMS platforms including:

SqlServer and DB2.

Proven experience managing production databases across on-premise and cloud platforms, including AWS RDS, Azure Managed Databases

Experience leading/developing technical teams in fast-paced, matrixed environments

Strong verbal/written communication; executive-level presentations

Familiarity in programming/scripting (Shell, Python, Go, Java, C++, Ruby)

Responsibilities

Lead, build, and mentor a high-performing DBRE team supporting mission-critical workloads

Define and drive the DBRE operating model, promoting reliability, automation, and a product mindset

Own database platform strategy across on-prem, cloud, and hybrid environments

Establish and monitor SLOs, SLAs, observability standards, and incident response processes

Architect and oversee solutions for HA, DR, backup/recovery, capacity planning, and performance optimization

Drive automation-first practices for database provisioning, patching, deployments, and compliance