Database Administrator/Reliability Engineer, Rent the Runway

• You have 6+ years of experience working with relational databases (e.g., MySQL, Postgres) in production, including cloud-managed services like CloudSQL or RDS
• You have 2+ years of hands-on experience with MongoDB, including performance tuning and applying governance or lifecycle practices
• You’ve worked in cloud-native environments (preferably GCP) and are comfortable using Terraform or equivalent infrastructure-as-code tools
• You are proficient in Python (or another general-purpose language) for scripting, automation, or infrastructure workflows
• You have experience implementing CI/CD workflows for database changes and are familiar with Git-based deployment
• You’ve contributed to or enforced data governance policies such as retention, pruning, and access controls
• You’ve made measurable improvements to platform performance, cost, or reliability — including optimizing indexing strategies, query patterns, and database schema design
• You take ownership, communicate clearly, and enjoy collaborating with engineers and data teams
• You’re pragmatic, improvement-driven, and excited to shape the future of database engineering in a cloud-first world

Desirable

• As a Database Administrator/Reliability Engineer, you’ll take ownership of the performance, reliability, and data governance of our cloud-managed database platforms, primarily CloudSQL(MySQL) and MongoDB
• A key part of the role is driving data lifecycle management — including pruning, archiving, and retention policies — to ensure our platform remains clean, compliant, and cost-efficient
• You'll collaborate with engineering teams to optimize query performance, advance automation efforts, and evolve our database operations toward a modern, cloud-native, infrastructure-as-code model
• As part of our broader data platform transformation, you’ll have the opportunity to take on scoped work in support of the Data Engineering team — contributing to the data platform rebuild through your expertise in database performance, structure, and governance
• This is a hands-on, cross-functional role that plays a critical part in maintaining a scalable, governed, and low-maintenance data foundation as the business grows
• Manage and optimize CloudSQL and MongoDB environments for performance, reliability, and cost
• Implement data lifecycle and governance practices (e.g. pruning, retention, access control)
• Improve platform efficiency through query tuning, schema design, and automation
• Contribute to infrastructure-as-code and CI/CD workflows for database operations
• Support incident response, root cause analysis, and cross-functional platform initiatives
• Help evolve the DBA role into a modern, proactive database engineering function
• Take on scoped technical delivery work as part of broader Data Engineering platform initiatives