Database Reliability Engineering Manager, Demandbase
(DBRE)
$220-230k
Go-To-Market engagement & marketing software
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Go-To-Market engagement & marketing software
501-1000 employees
Be an early applicant
$220-230k
501-1000 employees
Company mission
To transform how B2B companies go to market.
Role
Who you are
- Bring deep technical expertise and proven leadership skills
- Are highly strategic, yet detail-oriented in execution
- Thrive in both individual contributor and mentoring roles
- Are a clear communicator, comfortable representing your team across departments
- Excel at cross-functional collaboration and building alignment with senior stakeholders
- Lead with empathy and foster a healthy, high-performance team culture
- Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field
- 12+ years in database engineering/administration, including 2+ years managing or leading teams
- Strong expertise with AWS RDS (PostgreSQL/MySQL) and DynamoDB; exposure to BigQuery a plus
- Proven track record in performance tuning, query optimization, high availability, and security
- Solid Linux (Red Hat/SUSE) system administration experience
- Proficiency in Python, Shell scripting, and Infrastructure-as-Code (Terraform)
- Hands-on experience with Docker/Kubernetes and CI/CD pipelines (e.g., GitLab)
- Familiarity with monitoring/logging tools like Prometheus, Grafana, or Datadog
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
- Excellent written and verbal communication
- Ability to lead small, distributed teams while staying technically hands-on
- Skilled in strategic planning and OKR execution
- Experience advocating for team needs and influencing priorities at the leadership level
- Effective at coordinating across time zones and driving alignment on deliverables
- Experience with Google Cloud Platform (GCP) and tools like BigQuery or related GCP services
What the job involves
- We’re looking for a Manager, Database Reliability Engineering (DBRE) to lead and scale a small, high-performing global team.
- This is a hands-on leadership role ideal for someone who thrives in both technical execution and people management.
- You'll lead a team of DBREs based in the U.S. and India, driving reliability, scalability, and performance across our database infrastructure
- As the team’s manager, you’ll represent DBRE at the company level—aligning priorities with senior leadership, ensuring timely execution of OKRs, and fostering a strong engineering culture built on ownership, collaboration, and innovation
- Design, build, and maintain scalable database solutions using AWS RDS (PostgreSQL/MySQL), DynamoDB, BigQuery, and other modern data platforms
- Drive automation initiatives with Python, Shell scripting, GitLab CI/CD, and Terraform
- Ensure high availability, performance, security, and cost efficiency across all DB systems
- Collaborate with engineering teams to optimize schemas, queries, and overall database architecture
- Participate in on-call rotations and lead incident response for database-related issues
- Mentor, support, and technically guide a distributed team (US + India)
- Set clear goals, prioritize work strategically, and ensure timely delivery of team objectives
- Represent the DBRE team in cross-functional discussions, advocating for team needs and updates
- Foster a culture of ownership, accountability, and continuous improvement
- Develop and implement long-term plans for improving database reliability engineering practices
- Contribute to a “shift-left” engineering culture by building reusable templates/modules in Backstage
- Champion knowledge-sharing and documentation across database operations
Our take
B2B buyers face challenges that aren't met by most off-the-shelf marketing and sales software. Focused on customer sales (or converted from customer sales software), it usually fails to take into account the long sales cycles, unique advertising requirements, and account management needs of business sales. Since 2006, Demandbase has been here to change that with its account-based marketing platform designed specifically for B2B sales.
Competition in the digital sales space has heated up and Demandbase isn't the only B2B marketing firm in the sector, with other companies such as 6sense and Terminus offering marketing solutions. However Demandbase stands out by being the only demand-side platform built specifically for B2B advertising. This gives it a much more accurate identification of purchasing accounts and more precise targeting of advertising spend compared to its competitors.
Demandbase boasts a large and growing customer base including major clients such as Siemens, VISA and General Electric. On the back of several new updates and launches, as well as record bookings and strong revenue growth, the company has secured significant funds that will be used to support its next wave of platform innovation. The company was also recognised by Research In Action as a Market Leader for 2024 on its Vendor Selection Matrix™ for Revenue Marketing Automation Solutions.
Steph
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
-3% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 7 rounds)
May 2017
$65m
SERIES H
Jul 2015
$30m
LATE VC
Total funding: $158m
Company benefits
- Health and Wellness Plans
- Stock Options
- Flexible Time Off & Holidays
- Family Friendly Benefits
- Remote Friendly
- Inclusive and Open Company Culture
- Professional Development
Company HQ
Yerba Buena, San Francisco, CA
Leadership
Chris Golec
(Board Director)Founded Demandbase and was CEO until 2019. Is currently CEO of Channel99. Was previously Global Marketing Manager for General Electric and a Product Development Engineer with DuPont.
Gabe Rogol
(CEO, not founder)Was Senior VP of Sales and CRO at Dealbase before stepping up to CEO. Previously was VP Sales & Marketing with IDG.
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