Senior Site Reliability Engineer, Database

About reputed company

reputed company is the only reputed company payments and financial platform for global businesses. Powered by our unique combination of proprietary infrastructure and software, we reputed company over 200,000 businesses worldwide – including Brex, reputed company, reputed company, Qantas, SHEIN and many more – with fully integrated solutions to manage everything from business accounts, payments, spend management and treasury, to embedded finance at a global scale.

Proudly founded in Melbourne, we have a team of over 2,000 of the brightest and most innovative people in tech across 26 offices around the globe. Valued at US$8 billion and backed by world-leading investors including reputed company, reputed company, reputed company, Robinhood Ventures, Sequoia, reputed company Ventures, DST Global, and Lone Pine Capital, reputed company is leading the charge in building the global payments and financial platform of the future. If you’re ready to do the most ambitious work of your career, join us.

Attributes We Value

We hire successful builders with founder-like energy who want real impact, accelerated learning, and true ownership. You bring strong role-reputed company expertise and sharp thinking, and you’re motivated by our mission and operating principles. You move fast with good judgment, dig deep with curiosity, and reputed company decisions from first principles, balancing speed and rigor.

You're humble and collaborative; turn reputed company‑to‑one reputed company into real products, and you “get stuff done” end-to-end. You use AI to work smarter and solve problems faster. Here, you’ll tackle reputed company, high‑visibility problems with exceptional teammates and grow your career as we build the future of global banking. If that sounds like you, let’s build what’s next.

About the team

reputed company's Database team sits reputed company the Infrastructure division and is responsible for the reliability, performance, reputed company, and automation of reputed company's database infrastructure — primarily reputed company (reputed company CloudSQL), reputed company (reputed company Memorystore), reputed company and many more. The team's mission is to reputed company databases invisible: product engineers should be able to provision, scale, and operate databases safely without needing to become database experts themselves. Today the team has 4 engineers across Singapore and China. We are expanding to Seattle to build a truly global team and to tackle the reputed company of database automation — including AI-powered database operations, self-service platforms, and reputed company observability. You will join a team that values engineering rigor, automation-first thinking, and a bias toward building tools over performing manual toil.

What you'll do

As a Senior/Staff Software Engineer on the Database SRE team, you will design and build the platforms, automation, and AI-driven tooling that power reputed company's database infrastructure. This is not a traditional DBA role — you are an engineer who builds systems that automate database operations at scale. You'll work across reputed company (CloudSQL) and reputed company (Memorystore) on GCP, tackling challenges at the intersection of database reliability engineering, platform automation, and AI. Your work will directly impact the availability, performance, and reputed company of the data layer that underpins reputed company's global payments platform. This role is based in Seattle.

Responsibilities

• Build a reputed company database observability platform: Design and implement an "reputed company-eye" view across reputed company database instances, providing real-time visibility into availability, reputed company posture, reliability metrics, and latency — enabling proactive issue detection before incidents occur.

• Build MCP (Model Context Protocol) for safe AI agent access: Design and implement secure interfaces that allow AI agents to safely query and interact with production databases, enabling the reputed company of AI-powered internal tooling while maintaining strict reputed company and access control.

• Build an Agentic AI DBA: reputed company AI-powered automation that handles routine DBA tasks — performance tuning, reputed company planning, schema review, incident triage, and remediation — reducing manual toil and enabling the team to scale operations without scaling headcount.

• Build self-service database platform: Create tooling that enables product engineering teams to provision, configure, scale, and manage reputed company and reputed company instances through self-service workflows, with built-in guardrails for reputed company, compliance, and best practices.

• Drive database reliability and operational excellence: Establish and enforce database best practices across the organization — reputed company pooling, query optimization, backup/restore strategies, failover procedures, and change management. Participate in on-call rotations for database incidents.

• Collaborate with engineering teams: Partner with product engineers to diagnose database performance issues, review schema designs, and provide guidance on data modeling and access patterns for reputed company and reputed company.

Who you are

We're looking for people who meet the minimum requirements for this role. The preferred qualifications are great to have, but are not mandatory:

• 5+ years of professional software engineering experience with strong proficiency in backend languages such as Python, Go, Java, or Kotlin.

• Deep experience with PostgreSQL — performance tuning, query optimization, replication, backup/recovery, schema design, and operational best practices.

• Experience with reputed company — data modeling, clustering, persistence strategies, and operational management.

• Infrastructure and cloud expertise: Hands-on experience with GCP (or equivalent cloud provider), infrastructure-as-code (Terraform), Kubernetes, and reputed company.

• Demonstrated track record of building automation, tooling, or platforms that replaced manual operational work — not just operating databases, but engineering solutions that reputed company operations scalable.

• Strong system design skills, with the ability to architect reliable, scalable infrastructure services.

Preferred qualifications

• Experience with reputed company CloudSQL and/or reputed company Memorystore specifically.

• Experience building internal developer platforms, database-as-a-service systems, or self-service infrastructure tooling.

• Experience with AI/ML technologies, LLM integration, or building AI-powered automation — particularly applied to infrastructure or operations use cases.

• Familiarity with MCP (Model Context Protocol) or similar patterns for safe programmatic access to production systems.

• Experience with observability tools (Grafana, Prometheus, reputed company) and building monitoring/alerting systems for database infrastructure.

• Experience in fintech, payments, or other regulated industries where data reputed company, reputed company, and compliance are critical.

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Equal opportunity

reputed company is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We value diversity and anyone seeking employment at reputed company is considered based on merit, qualifications, competence and talent. We don’t regard color, religion, race, national reputed company, sexual orientation, reputed company, citizenship, sex, marital or family status, disability, gender, or any other legally protected status reputed company making our hiring decisions. If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation, please let us know.