okta
Staff Database Reliability Engineer (DBRE), Mysql, Federal
At a Glance
- Location
- Bellevue, Washington; New York, New York; San Francisco, California; Washington, DC
- Posted
- 2026-03-03T19:28:00-05:00
Key Requirements
Required Skills
Certifications
- AWS Certified
Domain Knowledge
- Cloud
Benefits & Perks
health, dental and vision insurance, 401(k), flexible spending account, and
Requirements
Proven experience as a MySQL DBRE
In-depth knowledge of MySQL internals, performance tuning, and query optimization.
Experience in database design, implementation, and maintenance in a high-availability environment.
Strong proficiency in SQL and familiarity with scripting.
Familiarity with database monitoring tools (e.g, Grafana).
Ability to troubleshoot and resolve database performance issues and outages promptly.
Compensation & Benefits
$182,000
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$249,000 USD
Below is the annual base salary range for candidates located in California (excluding San Francisco Bay Area), Colorado, Illinois, New York and Washington. Your actual base salary will depend on factors such as your skills, qualifications, experience, and work location. In addition, Okta offers equity (where applicable), bonus, and benefits, including health, dental and vision insurance, 401(k), flexible spending account, and paid leave (including PTO and parental leave) in accordance with our applicable plans and policies. To learn more about our Total Rewards program please visit:
https://rewards.okta.com/us
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Responsibilities
Ensure effective performance and 24X7 availability of the production database tier
Design, implement and document operational processes, tasks, and configuration management.
Coordinate efforts towards performance tuning, scaling and benchmarking the data services infrastructure.
Contribute to configuration management using chef and infrastructure as code using terraform.
Conduct thorough performance analysis and tuning to meet application SLAs, optimizing database schema, indexes, and SQL queries.
Quickly troubleshoot and resolve database performance issues.