Senior Database Reliability Engineer (DBRE)

Business Wire, a Berkshire Hathaway company, is the global market leader in press release distribution and regulatory disclosure. We are on a mission to redefine how organizations connect with their audiences - and that’s just the beginning!

Organizations, large and small, depend on us to accurately publicize market-moving news and multimedia, and generate social engagements that develop interactions with their target audiences.

About the Role

As a Senior Database Reliability Engineer (DBRE) you will play a critical role in ensuring the availability, reliability, and scalability of our company’s database ecosystems. You will work closely with software engineering, architecture, and operations teams to design and implement highly automated systems and ensure the smooth operation of Business Wire services. This is a senior technical role that requires a deep understanding of cloud infrastructure, database architecture, operations, and software development.

As a DBRE you will lead the planning, managing, and scaling of database technology to ensure that the business’ complex data requirements are met, and data is easily accessed in a fast, resilient, and safe manner. You will be part of the team responsible for providing technical support across all of Business Wire’s SaaS-based applications and infrastructure. An ideal candidate is a lifelong learner with a passion for appraising environments and designing/implementing innovative solutions which lead to supportability/reliability improvements.

Candidates should have an advanced understanding of modern RDMS & NoSQL database technologies, Java application technology stacks, and configuration management through IaC. As part of a small team supporting mission-critical programs within the company, this position provides the candidate with a unique opportunity to make a significant impact in supporting our customers.

• Design, deploy, and manage database platforms to include Oracle, DynamoDB, Postgres, NoSQL, Snowflake and MySQL to support business applications, ensuring high availability, performance, and data integrity.
• Apply engineering knowledge and techniques to prevent and reduce the likelihood or frequency of failures.
• Build and maintain monitoring and alerting to provide timely feedback on the performance and health of database platforms. Continuously evaluate design to ensure 99.99% uptime while removing architectural complexity.
• Achieve material application performance improvements based on insights from observability metrics. Optimize TSQL, stored procedures, and triggers.
• Reduce database lifecycle toil.
• Develop and maintain disaster recovery plans and procedures.
• Participate in on-call rotations to ensure 24/7 application availability.
• Drive incident root cause analysis, service restoration, and serve as an incident commander during outage events. 

• 7+ years of experience as a software engineer with 5 years as an DBRE supporting Oracle and MySQL database platforms in a high availability, 24x7 hybrid environment (Colo/Cloud).
• Strong record of automation (e.g., Python, Bash, Java, Ansible, Terraform, CloudFormation).
• Experience with AWS cloud infrastructure and container orchestration (Kubernetes, ArgoCD) operating in a GitOps framework.
• Strong experience with application monitoring, observability, and alerting systems (e.g., New Relic, Grafana).
• Strong experience with at least one programming language (Python, Java).
• Advanced experience with Linux system administration, Java-based applications, and network architecture.
• Ability to participate in architecture reviews.

• AWS related certifications (Architecture, Database, Cloud Engineer).
• Oracle EBS.
• Experience designing or supporting ETL and data pipelines.

• Ability to work remotely
• Excellent health benefits that begin on your first day of employment
• $100 monthly fitness allotment, a tuition reimbursement program, and enhanced mental health resources
• 401(k) plan with generous company match, and annual profit sharing contribution (subject to company performance)
• PTO, Floating Holidays, Wellness Day Off, Birthday Day Off, and more!

A pre-employment background check will be required after the acceptance of an offer. Business Wire is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace. We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity or Veteran status. Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance and other similar state laws and local ordinances, and its internal policy, Business Wire will also consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.