Staff Database Reliability Engineer
Core
Lead the architecture, reliability, and operational excellence of Checkr's core data stores across a multi-cloud fleet.
Role type
Staff Database Reliability Engineer
Builds
High-scale distributed data stores (PostgreSQL, MySQL, MongoDB) powering AI verification decisions for customers like Uber and Airbnb.
Domain
Cloud Infrastructure / Database Administration / SRE
Deliverable
production ML models
Required skills
Database architecture design, capacity planning, disaster recovery, Infrastructure as Code (Terraform), performance tuning, security architecture, incident management, team mentoring
Preferred skills
AI tooling integration, zero-downtime migration strategies, fleet-wide data governance
Technologies
PostgreSQL, MySQL, MongoDB, AWS (RDS, Aurora, ElastiCache, S3), Terraform, Terragrunt, gh-ost
Responsibilities
Design high availability and multi-region strategies; mentor engineers and drive long-term database strategy; provision and scale cloud database systems; optimize query and instance performance; build observability and automated alerting; automate operational workflows and schema migrations; lead incident diagnosis and resolution.
Seniority
Staff, strategic leadership with hands-on execution
