CareerPlan

Database Reliability Engineer

New Zealand, AucklandFull-time2026-10-14 → 2026-11-10

Core

Design, develop, and manage enterprise-scale MySQL and open-source database systems with a focus on high availability, clustering, security, performance, and scalability.

Role type

Senior IC Database Site Reliability Engineer

Builds

Reliable, scalable, and secure production database environments for large-scale customer workloads

Domain

Enterprise Cloud / Database Infrastructure

Required skills

MySQL, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, AWS Aurora, Google Cloud SQL, Linux, Kubernetes, Docker, Shell, Python, Ruby, database architecture, replication, clustering, high availability, disaster recovery, backup, restore, automation, configuration management, observability, incident response, performance tuning, capacity planning

Preferred skills

Ceph Storage, Gluster, Orchestrator for MySQL, Percona MHA, Percona Galera, Vitess, Pure Storage, Chef, Ansible, Terraform, GitHub, JIRA, Confluence

Technologies

MySQL, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, AWS Aurora, Google Cloud SQL, Linux, Kubernetes, Docker, Shell, Python, Ruby, Chef, Ansible, Terraform, GitHub, JIRA, Confluence, Ceph Storage, Gluster, Orchestrator for MySQL, Percona MHA, Percona Galera, Vitess, Pure Storage

Responsibilities

Support large-scale MySQL and open-source database environments across production and development systems; participate in on-call rotation for critical production issues; drive automation to improve availability and scalability; help architect existing and new database services in the production environment

Seniority

Senior, hands-on IC