Senior Database Reliability Engineer, Okta
$152-228k
Management platform securing resources from cloud to ground
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Management platform securing resources from cloud to ground
1001+ employees
Be an early applicant
$152-228k
1001+ employees
Company mission
To improve the connections between people and tools to make companies more productive and secure.
Role
Who you are
- We are looking for a highly skilled Database Reliability Engineer (DBRE) with deep expertise in PostgreSQL at scale and solid experience with MySQL
- 4 plus years of hands-on PostgreSQL experience in high-volume, distributed, or large-scale production environments
- Strong knowledge of PostgreSQL internals (WAL, MVCC, bloat/ vacuum tuning, query planner, indexing, logical replication)
- Production experience with MySQL (InnoDB internals, replication, performance tuning)
- Advanced SQL and strong understanding of schema design and query optimization
- Experience with Linux systems, networking fundamentals, and systems troubleshooting
- Experience building automation with Go or Python
- Production experience with monitoring tools (Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog, PMM, pg_stat_statements, etc.)
- Hands-on experience with cloud environments (AWS or GCP)
Desirable
- Experience with PgBouncer, HAProxy, or other connection-pooling/load-balancing layers
- Exposure to event streaming (Kafka, Debezium) and change data capture
- Experience supporting 24/7 production environments with on-call rotation
- Contributions to open-source PostgreSQL ecosystem
What the job involves
- In this role, you will design, operationalize, and optimize the data persistence layer that powers our large-scale, mission-critical systems. You will work closely with SRE, Platform, and Engineering teams to ensure performance, reliability, automation, and operational excellence across our database environment
- This is a hands-on engineering role focused on building resilient data infrastructure, not just administering it
- Architecture, Reliability & Performance
- Design, implement, and operate highly available PostgreSQL clusters (physical replication, logical replication, sharding/partitioning, failover automation)
- Optimize query performance, indexing strategies, schema design, and storage engines
- Perform capacity planning, growth forecasting, and workload modeling
- Own high-availability strategies including automatic failover, multi-AZ/multi-region setups, and disaster recovery
- Automation & Tooling
- Develop automation for any and all tasks including but not limited to: provisioning, configuration, backups, failovers, vacuum tuning, and schema management using tools such as Terraform, Ansible, Kubernetes Operators, or custom tooling
- Build monitoring, alerting, and self-healing systems for PostgreSQL and MySQL
- Operations & Incident Response
- Lead response during database incidents—performance regressions, replication lag, deadlocks, bloat issues, storage failures, etc
- Conduct root-cause analysis and implement permanent fixes
- Cross-Functional Collaboration
- Partner with software engineers to review SQL, optimize schemas, and ensure efficient use of PostgreSQL features
- Provide guidance on database-related design patterns, migrations, version upgrades, and best practices
Our take
Okta started off as an identity company where organisations, large and small, could tap into the company to have a single sign-on interface to access all cloud applications now centralised. Okta has since expanded to provide identity management at the device as well as the server level.
The new approach towards network security is increasingly based on identification and authentication, and Okta is on track to become the go-to vendor in the space. They aim to do so by developing products that enable people to access applications and other tools more smoothly and securely than ever before.
Okta has taken strides towards expansion through significant employee growth and shuffling executive leadership. The company has also made lateral moves such as tackling governance concerns, opening up new paths for revenue.
Freddie
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
19% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 7 rounds)
Sep 2015
$75m
SERIES F
Jun 2014
$75m
SERIES E
Total funding: $229.3m
Company benefits
- Work from home opportunities
- Health + Wellness
- Financial Benefits
- Pay + Incentives
- Time Off
- Everyday Living
- Resources
Company HQ
The East Cut, San Francisco, CA
Leadership
Todd McKinnon
(CEO)VP of Development at Salesforce.com and has nearly a decade of experience in various engineering and leadership roles at PeopleSoft.
Frederic Kerrest
(Vice Chairman)Worked in Sales and Business Development at Salesforce.com, and previously co-founded high-tech consulting firm Meridian Global Solutions.
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