Job Title:
Manager - Database Reliability Engineering (DBRE)
Department:
Reliability Engineering
Location:
Bangalore
About The Role
We are looking for a highly skilled
Database Reliability Engineering (DBRE) Manager
to lead a team responsible for the reliability, performance, and scalability of large-scale database systems such as
MongoDB, MySQL, and Elasticsearch
. The role focuses on building automation-first solutions to enhance database operations, ensuring reliability, scalability, and efficiency across multiple environments.
Why Join Us
- Build and lead one of the most advanced DBRE teams driving automation, scale, and resiliency.
- Work in a culture that values innovation, reliability, and technical excellence.
- Influence the technical roadmap for database automation, performance, and operational efficiency.
Key Responsibilities
- Team Leadership & Strategy: Build, mentor, and lead a high-performing DBRE team focused on automation, reliability, and continuous improvement.
- Database Operations & Reliability: Ensure uptime, performance, and scalability of MongoDB, MySQL, and Elasticsearch clusters across multiple regions and environments.
- Automation & Engineering: Drive automation for database provisioning, scaling, backups, upgrades, and recovery using Go or Python. Promote Infrastructure as Code and self-service database management.
- Monitoring & Incident Response: Implement automated monitoring, alerting, and self-healing mechanisms. Lead major incident response, root cause analysis, and postmortem reviews.
- Collaboration: Work closely with SRE, CloudOps, Security, and development teams to enhance database reliability and support new feature rollouts.
- Best Practices & Documentation: Define DBRE best practices, document automation workflows, and create operational runbooks.
- Capacity & Cost Management: Forecast database growth, manage capacity planning, and optimize costs.
- Security & Compliance: Ensure robust database security, compliance, and data protection measures.
Required Qualifications
- Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field.
- 8+ years of experience in Database Engineering, DBRE, or SRE roles, including at least 3 years in technical leadership or management.
- Strong hands-on experience with MongoDB, MySQL, and Elasticsearch (Elasticsearch experience is a plus).
- Proficiency in Go or Python for automation, tooling, and database lifecycle management.
- Experience automating database provisioning, scaling, patching, and self-healing systems.
- Expertise in managing highly available and scalable database clusters including replication, sharding, backup/restore, and performance tuning.
- Strong understanding of database security, access control, and compliance practices.
- Excellent leadership, incident management, and communication skills.
- Proven track record of hiring, mentoring, and developing high-performing technical teams.
Top 3 Primary Skills
- Database Automation & Reliability Deep experience managing and automating MongoDB, MySQL, and Elasticsearch operations.
- Programming & Automation Proficiency in Go or Python for building database automation frameworks and self-healing systems.
- Leadership in DBRE/SRE Strong ability to lead, mentor, and scale a high-impact database reliability team focused on performance and resilience
Required Skills
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