Staff Database Reliability Engineer, Okta

• 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)
• Solid understanding of database security practices and compliance requirements
• Ability to troubleshoot and resolve database performance issues and outages promptly
• Excellent communication skills and ability to work effectively in a team environment
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field (or equivalent work experience)
• This position requires the ability to access federal environments and/or have access to protected federal data. As a condition of employment for this position, the successful candidate must be able to submit documentation establishing U.S. Person status (e.g. a U.S. Citizen, National, Lawful Permanent Resident, Refugee, or Asylee. 22 CFR 120.15) upon hire

Desirable

• As a Database Reliability Engineer, you will have ownership of all technical aspects of our data services tier from ground up
• As a team we are also particularly committed to two Okta Engineering mantras "Always On" and "No Mysteries"
• Reporting to the Manager of Site Reliability Engineering, you will partner with our core product engineers, performance engineers, site reliability engineers, and growing DBRE team, working on scaling, securing, and tuning our infrastructure be it self managed MySQL, RDS Aurora MySQL/PostgreSQL or CloudSQL MySQL/PostgreSQL
• Additionally, you will play a key role as we evolve our architecture to meet the demands of Okta's enormous growth and the hundreds of millions of users who rely on us to provide uninterrupted access to business-critical enterprise and consumer applications
• 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