Staff Database Reliability Engineer (DBRE), Mysql, Federal

Joining our team means being part of a dynamic environment where your expertise in MySQL will have a direct and very valued contribution to our mission-critical database operations. You’ll have opportunities for professional growth, working with cutting-edge technologies and collaborating with a diverse and geographically distributed talented team dedicated to achieving our business goals.

Staff Database Reliability Engineer (MySQL)

As a Database Reliability Engineer, you will have ownership of all technical aspects of our data services tier from ground up. As a team we are also particularly committed to two Okta Engineering mantras "Always On" and "No Mysteries". Reporting to the Manager of Site Reliability Engineering, you will partner with our core product engineers, performance engineers, site reliability engineers, and growing DBRE team, working on scaling, securing, and tuning our infrastructure be it self managed MySQL, RDS Aurora MySQL/PostgreSQL or CloudSQL MySQL/PostgreSQL. Additionally, you will play a key role as we evolve our architecture to meet the demands of Okta's enormous growth and the hundreds of millions of users who rely on us to provide uninterrupted access to business-critical enterprise and consumer applications.

Key Responsibilities:

• Ensure effective performance and 24X7 availability of the production database tier
• Design, implement and document operational processes, tasks, and configuration management.
• Coordinate efforts towards performance tuning, scaling and benchmarking the data services infrastructure.
• Contribute to configuration management using chef and infrastructure as code using terraform.
• Conduct thorough performance analysis and tuning to meet application SLAs, optimizing database schema, indexes, and SQL queries. Quickly troubleshoot and resolve database performance issues.

Required Skills and Qualifications:

• Proven experience as a MySQL DBRE
• In-depth knowledge of MySQL internals, performance tuning, and query optimization.
• Experience in database design, implementation, and maintenance in a high-availability environment.
• Strong proficiency in SQL and familiarity with scripting.
• Familiarity with database monitoring tools (e.g, Grafana).
• Solid understanding of database security practices and compliance requirements.
• Ability to troubleshoot and resolve database performance issues and outages promptly.
• Excellent communication skills and ability to work effectively in a team environment.
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field (or equivalent work experience).

Preferred Skills:

• AWS Certified Database - Specialty or related certifications demonstrating proficiency in AWS database services and cloud infrastructure management.
• Familiarity or hands-on experience with PostgreSQL or other relational database management systems (RDBMS), understanding their differences and implications for database management.

• Understanding of containerization technologies such as Docker and Kubernetes and their impact on database deployments and scalability.
• Proficient in a Linux environment, including Linux internals and tuning

• Proven track record of applying innovative solutions to complex database challenges and a strong problem-solving mindset in a dynamic operational environment.

Additional requirements:

• This position requires the ability to access federal environments and/or have access to protected federal data. As a condition of employment for this position, the successful candidate must be able to submit documentation establishing U.S. Person status (e.g. a U.S. Citizen, National, Lawful Permanent Resident, Refugee, or Asylee. 22 CFR 120.15) upon hire.

Requires in-person onboarding and travel to our San Francisco, CA HQ office or our Chicago office during the first week of employment.

requisition ID- P24511_3375546