Database Reliability Engineer (Remote)

Job Summary

The Database Reliability Engineer (DBRE) helps to protect, preserve, and ensure the availability of data by owning day-to-day reliability work and driving targeted improvements across Microsoft SQL Server and other supported systems. The role partners with more experienced DBREs to measure and tune performance, maintain healthy configurations, and implement new SQL Server features that enhance stability and throughput. It combines hands‑on operations with problem solving during incidents, including triage, root‑cause analysis, and follow‑through on durable corrective actions.

As a core contributor, this individual advances automation and tooling by documenting and eliminating repeatable tasks, building and maintaining internal self‑service capabilities for software engineers, and developing proficiency with third‑party tools. The DBRE shares responsibility for security controls, backup strategies, disaster‑recovery readiness, and on‑call. They apply best practices that reduce manual effort, strengthen observability, and uphold service‑level objectives.

Responsibilities

As a DBRE, you will:

• Protect, preserve, and ensure the continuous availability of data.
• Collaborate with senior team members to measure, analyze, and fine‑tune database performance, ensuring optimal configuration and resource utilization.
• Document and automate routine database tasks to reduce manual effort and improve operational efficiency.
• Assist in building, testing, and maintaining internal tools that enable application and database developers to manage their own data needs.
• Gain proficiency in both in‑house developed solutions and third‑party tools used for database monitoring, management, and automation.
• Share responsibility for implementing and maintaining database security, backup strategies, and routine maintenance procedures.
• Join the on‑call rotation to respond to incidents, contribute to root cause analysis, and implement long‑term fixes to prevent recurrence.
• Implement new SQL Server features to improve performance, reliability, and scalability.
• Respond to and resolve database performance incidents.