Database Reliability Engineer
About the role
With tens of millions of visitors every week, we strive to be the best in the industry for our users. You’ll be responsible for taking ownership of our existing and new database infrastructure for multiple platforms and facilitating releases into new regions. We wrote our systems from scratch about 4 years ago, so you’ll be working with the latest technology and won’t have to worry about decades old technologies. There’s also freedom to research and implement new technologies into our stack as you and the team see fit.
Our Stack
Relational Databases: AWS Aurora MySQL/PostgreSQL
NoSQL Databases: MongoDB Atlas, AWS DocumentDB
Caching Layer: AWS ElastiCache, Valkey
Message Queue: Apache RocketMQ, RabbitMQ
Search Engine: ElasticSearch, Mongo Atlas
OLAP: Redshift
Monitoring & Alerting: Prometheus, Grafana, Loki, Alert Manager
Backup & Recovery: AWS Backup, Point-in-Time Recovery, Cross-Region Replication
Database Proxy: RDS Proxy
Infrastructure as Code: Terraform, Ansible
CI/CD Integration: Jenkins, ArgoCD, Github Action, Helm
Network & Security: AWS VPC, Security Groups, AWS Secrets Manager
Programming Languages: Golang, Python
Containerization: Kubernetes
What you'll be doing
Work in a team of DBRE and DevOps professionals
Design, implement, and maintain highly available database architectures to support business growth across multiple countries
Improve existing database infrastructure, including performance tuning, capacity planning, backup/recovery strategies, and disaster recovery procedures
Develop automation tools and internal platforms using Go/Python to streamline database operations, reduce manual interventions, and minimize human errors
Monitor database health and performance metrics, establish alerting mechanisms based on SLO burn rates, and proactively identify potential issues
Take ownership and responsibility for database operations including schema changes, data migrations, and production deployments
Collaborate with development teams to provide database design consultation, query optimization, and troubleshooting support
Conduct regular database security audits and implement security best practices to protect sensitive data
What you'll bring
4+ years experience tackling and managing advanced MySQL and MongoDB problems
A self-driven Database Reliability Engineer with proven experience in managing large-scale database systems in production environments
Have a deep understanding of database architecture, performance optimisation, high availability solutions, and database security best practices
Following the latest industry trends in database technologies and are passionate about building reliable, scalable data infrastructure
Have strong automation mindset and programming skills to build tools that improve database operations and reliability
Understand SLI/SLO/SLA concepts and have experience implementing reliability engineering practices
What’s in it for you
Sporty is a remote first company in pursuit of sustainability
A competitive salary + individual performance based bonuses every quarter
28 days paid annual leave
Our core working hours are 10am-3pm in your local time zone with flexibility outside of this
Referral bonuses & flash bonuses
Top of the line equipment
Annual company retreats to provide great internal networking opportunities
Interview Process
Remote video screening with our Talent Acquisition Team
Online assessment via Hackerrank
Remote video interview with Team Members (60 Mins)
Final discussion with the hiring manager (60 mins)
If you're interested, we encourage you to apply! Every application is reviewed by a member of our team (AI is not used in our recruitment process), and we aim to respond within 48 hours.
